Frustrated after weeks on the picket line, a delegation of children’s aid workers from Nipissing and Parry Sound children’s aid society (CAS) travelled by bus today to Queen’s Park trying to bring about an end to the lockout that has seen them off the job for nine weeks.
The 50 frontline child protection workers and administrative and support staff from the are scheduled to meet individual MPPs from across the province during their day at the legislature, which resumed sitting on February 21.
“We are going to Queen’s Park not only on our own behalf, but also for the vulnerable children and families that this lockout has put at risk,” said Debbie Hill, president of Local 2049 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents workers at Nipissing and Parry Sound CAS.
The union and the society last met in bargaining on Friday, 10 February.
Meanwhile, Monique Taylor, MPP for Hamilton Mountain and NDP critic for children and youth services, today called on the Wynne government to step in to find a resolution to the lockout.
“For the past eight weeks, vulnerable children and families have been at increased risk in their absence,” said Taylor. “Lack of funding, coupled with CAS management digging in its heels, is putting children at risk.”
