Last week, education workers in Ontario gave their union leadership a massive strike vote mandate. Over 45,000 out of the 55,000 members of CUPE’s Ontario…
As we celebrate the excitement of the World Cup, it’s important that we take action to draw attention to Israeli apartheid and its attempts to “sports wash” its image, and that we build solidarity for all Palestinians including soccer players.
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.
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.
With a strike deadline possibly weeks away, it’s crucial to use every moment between now and then to build broad public support for Ontario’s education workers. If education workers win, we all win, and every other fight with the Ford government will be stronger for it.
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…
The choice is breathtakingly clear in the upcoming elections in the second largest democracy in the Americas: democracy or neofascism.
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 any of us. But it surely does not care about your grandma. The people in power insist that the current…
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.
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…
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…
