Education workers fighting back: Interview with Laura Walton
CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions represents 55,000 education workers in Ontario. They are fighting for higher wages and better working conditions. Currently members are in the midst of a strike vote. Spring recently spoke with Laura Walton, the President of OSBCU – CSCSO, about how education workers are organizing to fight for decent wages and a fair contract.
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The radical history of oil workers
Oil workers extract fossil fuels that are the life-blood of the system. But this work extracts a health toll from workers and surrounding communities, and contaminates the environment. When oil workers have moved into action to challenge these contradictions, they have helped topple regimes, win health and environmental regulations, and imagine a world beyond capitalism and oil.
NDP: defend Singh’s Palestine solidarity and withdraw from Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group
Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is right when he states, “We believe Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories is at the centre of the challenges facing the Palestinian and Israeli people.” In response the pro-Israel lobby has smeared him with accusations of anti-Semitism. We need to support Singh’s position on Palestine but also to tell him the NDP needs to withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group.
Education workers vote 96% to strike. Here’s how we can help them win
If education workers win, all workers across Ontario win, and every other fight with the Ford government will be stronger for it.
The fight for reproductive justice is an abolitionist struggle
Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada by Martha Paynter (Fernwood, 2022). With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights are coming…
Brazilian elections: Democracy or neofascism
The choice is breathtakingly clear in the upcoming elections in the second largest democracy in the Americas: democracy or neofascism.
There is an opening to win paid sick days in Ontario
I’ll cut straight to the chase – Ontario still does not have permanent paid sick days. Zero. After a devastating pandemic with thousands of deaths,…
The market doesn’t care about your grandma
The market doesn’t care about any of us. But it surely does not care about your grandma. The people in power insist that the current…
Migrant justice challenges ‘precarity at every level’
September 18 marked an important day for migrants across the country. Migrants and supporters alike are demanding regularization and permanent residency status for all. Some…
How strikes made the elementary teachers’ union
Class Action: How Ontario’s Elementary Teachers Became a Political Force by Andy Hanson (Between the Lines, 2021) Andy Hanson’s Class Action is an accessible and…
