About 50 to 75 supporters gathered out Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli's constituency office on Main Street in North Bay on Saturday afternoon.
It's one of the multiple education workers union events which took place across the province on Saturday.
Last Monday, the Ford government promised to repeal Bill 28 this Monday.
That promise put an end to the work stoppage and sent education workers back to work on Tuesday.
CUPE describes Bill 28 as "anti-worker legislation that imposed a bad contract on Ontario’s lowest-paid education workers."
Mitch Gagnon, the regional organizer with CUPE-OSBCU admits the union won't back down.
"The word around Toronto is that CUPE members are winding down, they are tired and will not be going back on the line but we are here to tell him we are here to stay and he needs to get Bill 28 repealed now," said Gagnon.
He says they don't want Ford to pull back on this promise.
"We don't trust what Doug Ford says," admits Gagnon.
"One day he says one thing, another day he says something else. What he did to us was an attack on us and everybody in Ontario."
CUPE-OSBCU’s central bargaining committee remains at the negotiating table. Gagnon says the supporters here are getting anxious.
Union officials across the province say the Solidarity Saturday regional rallies are a reminder that $39,000 per year is not enough.
"That is the average of what our membership makes," explains Gagnon about that salary number.
"That is not enough. That means some are making $34,000 and in my local nobody is making $60,000. Some are making $40 per hour but the hours are not enough and that is governed by the government."
