Saturday, July 14, 2007

CUPE targets Ontario Liberals in fall election

Liberals across Ontario will be targeted by 225,000 members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in the October provincial election, union leader Sid Ryan said Thursday.

Union members are upset by cuts in the education sector, including fewer school custodians and educational assistants, Ryan, the president of CUPE Ontario, said in Toronto on Thursday.
‘Where we can find a Liberal, we’ll be going after them. We don’t believe the Liberals deserve our support.’—CUPE head Sid Ryan

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals immediately dismissed the campaign as baseless and blatantly self-serving

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