Ford’s stunning reversal on Bill 28 shows when the working class unites and fights back it has the power to take on the Conservatives and win.
Dalhousie was back at the bargaining table briefly last week, showing they are concerned about the mounting pressure from students. As long as student and campus solidarity continues to build, workers at Dal will win their fight.
By pulling money away from the public education system, the Conservative’s catch-up payment scheme paves the way for privatization and pits the public against education workers fighting for better working and learning conditions.
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.
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…
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A radical theory of educational reform is meaningful only if it is attached to the social relations of production. Under the present conditions schools can do little to improve society in general. However, they can become relevant if they are involved in the forces of decolonization.
In a press conference on Thursday, April 8, Professor Aimé Avolonto, Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at Glendon College, York University, put…
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In January 2020, four of Ontario’s major teachers and education workers unions took job action against Ford’s government’s cuts to public education. The strikes gained…
After years of continued budget cuts and neoliberal austerity in the education system being met with strikes from teachers and students alike — we are…
