Regarding the current job action by public employee union OPSEU, any questions directed to one side of the issue, that being management, are met with virtually the same response.

The issue, says the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services, is strictly “a matter between the employer and the union.”    

This is the brush-off line given to striking employees wanting answers, and members of the general public seeking the same.  It is the official response from the ministry under which these programs are funded, and its the boilerplate response given to workers when they approached their local MPP, who for the record didn’t meet with them, but still offered a statement saying that the dispute wasn’t with the Ford government, but rather was a matter between the employer and the union.

So, let me just say that I totally agree with that statement, or would totally agree with it if it was made in good faith, which it is decidedly not.

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