255,000 education workers across Ontario are currently in collective bargaining with the provincial government, with a mass strike potentially looming in the future.
Since 2018, the Ontario government has cut public education funding by over $6 billion. Support worker and Early Childhood Educator jobs are being slashed while class sizes go up, leaving teachers and staff to do more with less support. Right now, they’re fighting for better funding and better learning conditions for students across the province.
As we know from the November 2022 education worker strike that threatened to turn into a general strike and forced major concessions from Doug Ford, public education workers hold the power to fight for all public services, attack Ford, and win gains for all workers.
Use these resources to paint the province purple (and red!) and let’s show education workers that we support their fight!
If you can’t make copies on your own, we will do our best to get materials mailed to you. Email us at info@SpringMag.ca, and let us know what you need and where to mail them.
Posters
Download these posters, print them out, and post them around your local schools to let education workers know that we support them!
8.5″ x 11″ (regular size) – Education Worker posters
11″ x 17″ (tabloid size) – Education Worker posters
Sign-up sheets
Are your neighbours/fellow parents/co-workers/friends concerned about what’s happening to public education? Use this sign-up sheet as a way to start a conversation and turn our concerns into action! Go out into your neighbourhood and spread the word! Click here to download.
After collecting signatures: use this form to log contact info for people who indicated that they want to be kept in the loop about upcoming education worker events and activities. Follow the instructions on the form.
If people indicate that they’re interested in lawn signs, please contact your regional OSBCU Local.
Find an event near you
Use CUPE/OSBCU’s event-finding tool to find outreach activities in your area! Be sure to invite the people who sign your sign-up sheets!
Articles
Below are some education-related articles to send to friends, fellow parents, and the education workers at your child’s school.
- OECTA, ETFO and CUPE-OSBCU set strike votes for November
- Join parents’ fight for better public education (interview with the Toronto Education Advocacy Network)
- Doug Ford is privatizing education at the expense of teachers, students, and taxpayers
- Education workers can create a political crisis for Doug Ford
- Thousands across Ontario protest Doug Ford in support of public education
- When teachers defied the law: A brief history of teachers’ struggles in Canada
- Lesson plan for fighting Ford
- Ontario’s war on special education
- Ontario classrooms are being stripped down to the bare minimum
- Ontario’s School Boards are buying what should be free
- Who killed Bill 28? Ontario workers and the threat of a general strike
Print editions of Spring Magazine
Below are PDF copies of print editions of Spring Magazine we have put together related to education worker solidarity.
