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Laura Walton
CUPE Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU)
President of CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions (OSBCU), which represents approximately 55,000 education support workers across Ontario including early childhood educators, custodians, and educational assistants. Walton publicly condemned the Ford government's 2026–27 education funding as 'deeply inadequate' and called for real investment in Ontario's classrooms.
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The Ford government's 2026–27 education funding includes a 1% increase below inflation and a $56.2 million cut to the Classroom Staffing Fund, triggering immediate layoffs of 50+ education workers in eastern Ontario and threatening thousands more province-wide when job-protection agreements expire in September 2026.
As OSBCU president, Walton issued a public statement condemning the Ford government's 2026–27 education funding announcement as 'deeply inadequate,' calling on the government to make real investments in Ontario classrooms. Her statement was issued in direct response to the Ministry of Education's Core Education Funding announcement and documented the risk of widespread job cuts for CUPE-represented education workers.