Episode 25: The Most Important Strike in Years: the Education Workers Strike in Ontario

Victor's Children

The Most Important Strike in Years: the Education Workers Strike in Ontario The law-defying strike by the 55, 000 workers in CUPE's Ontario School Board Council of Unions in November 2022 was brief but arguably the most important strike in so-called Canada in almost two decades. Peter Hogarth talks about the background to the strike, how it unfolded, why it ended the way it did, and its lessons. Some articles worth reading: Peter Hogarth, "Who Killed Bill 28?" https://springmag.ca/who-killed-bill-28-ontario-workers-and-the-threat-of-a-general-strike Martin Lukacs and Emma Paling, The inside story of how education workers beat back Doug Ford https://breachmedia.ca/the-inside-story-of-how-education-workers-beat-back-doug-ford/ John Clarke, Doug Ford underestimated the power of workers—but so did union leaders https://breachmedia.ca/doug-ford-underestimated-the-power-of-workersbut-so-did-union-leaders/ John Clarke, Beyond the Rituals of Class Compromise https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/beyond-the-rituals-of-class-compromise/