@lilwaynekennedy@munakadri This is incredibly true. I did all of those things when I was new, precariously employed and childless. I am none of those things anymore and can't imagine doing all I used to do.
#OSSTF is sending daily emails now counting down to the end of the vote on Sept 27 and saying, “Vote yes! Vote yes! Vote yes!” and all I hear is “Demobilize! Demobilize! Demobilize!” and it makes me sad for future worker solidarity and union power. 😔
The result of the #OSSTF binding arbitration pathway vote on September 27 will have important strategic implications for all unions. Here’s a thread 🧵 about what’s at stake for the labour movement.
#canlab#onted
In a world of performative cruelty and outrage, it takes tremendous courage to be gentle, to love well, to read widely, to embrace curiosity instead of bigotry, to pursue kindness instead of hate.
UAW President Shawn Fain keeps his promise to expand the Union's "Stand Up" strike. Workers inside of 38 parts distribution plants in 20 states walked off the job at Noon today. Fain joined striking workers outside of the MOPAR Distribution Warehouse in Centerline, MI. @WWJ950
New w/ @DavidWelch47@KeithNaughton & @gablova:
https://t.co/gPnTQObcgE
“We’ve never seen anything like this… I don’t know what Shawn Fain is doing”
This is the reason Mr. Lecce and @fordnation keep floating trial balloons about abolishing school boards. They want to sell off the land and Boards would stand up for their communities.
I can confirm I’m one of the Metroland journalists laid off today.
I worked with some incredible reporters and editors in my five years with the company. Community journalism is turning into a lost art form. This is a devastating day for Canadian media.
#cdnmedia
As the @UAW strike started, media swarmed union president Shawn Fain.
But when they asked him questions he pointed to the workers around him and said:
"You need to be taking their pictures. You need to be asking these guys what it's about. This is what we're fighting for."
#OSSTF District 9 Teacher Bargaining Unit advises members of risks associated with supporting the proposal to trade the right to strike for binding interest arbitration, calls for solidarity with other education unions.
#onted#canlab
I actually personally voted for you to come up with a viable plan B. If you can't do that in the hottest labour moment in a generation, why do you make double my salary?? #osstf
The upside to this #osstf debacle it has cause rank and file members to plead the case for unionism more passionately than I have seen in my entire career. Members believe in these principles, even if our leaders don't. #OntEd