Photos: 'Lecce the Leech,' 'Don't be a bully' — Ontario CUPE workers are on strike
- 1/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 2/21
CUPE strike
- 3/21
CUPE strike
- 4/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 5/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 6/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 7/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 8/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 9/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 10/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters gather at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 11/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters gather at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 12/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 13/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 14/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 15/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 16/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 17/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 18/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 19/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 20/21
Members of CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queens Park to protest a day after the Provincial Government enacted the Not Withstanding Clause of the Canadian Constitution to legislate a contract on the union
- 21/21
Stephen Lecce sign saying: "It's me, hi! I'm the problem, it's me"
Abhya Adlakha
·Editor, Yahoo News Canada
With no deal reached between the Ontario government and the union that represents 55,000 education workers, an "indefinite strike" started Friday morning.
Here are the scenes from the frontlines, including some of the most creative signs from the crowd.