TORONTO – Ontario’s legislature is being recalled today as a labour showdown with teachers and two potentially game-changing byelections loom on the horizon.
  
The governing Liberals are planning to introduce a bill to impose new contracts on thousands of teachers that will rein in wages and cut benefits.
   
It would also ban strikes and lockouts _ which some unions are condemning as an unprecedented attack on their constitutional rights.
   
Three unions who oppose the government’s demands are planning a rally Tuesday at Queen’s Park to protest the legislation.
   
They say there will be no labour disruptions this fall, but aren’t ruling out job action later in the year.
   
The minority Liberals need one of the opposition parties to help pass the legislation, and Progressive Conservatives have signalled that they’re willing to do that.