Vicki Buder

Community volunteer, labour advocate and fixer of problems. Tweets are my own.

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

On Canadian School Library Day, we celebrate the important role school libraries play in public education 📖

School libraries are more than shelves of books. They are spaces where students can explore ideas, strengthen literacy and research skills, discover new perspectives, access information and develop a lifelong love of learning.

They also help make knowledge and learning opportunities accessible to students across our school communities.

Today, we invite you to celebrate your school library. Share a book you discovered there, a memory that stayed with you, or something your school library helped you learn. Comment below.

#CanadianSchoolLibraryDay #SchoolLibraries #OntEd #OSSTF

[Jill Promoli @jillpromoli]

Paul Calandra should tell 40% of Ontario parents how this is serving our children in any way. How is it helping our kids or our schools to remove our advocates who are accountable to us, and install expensive supervisors who are cutting student services? #onted @fordnation

[Beth Levy @Beth_Levy66]

This isn’t normal. This isn’t how democracy works. #ONpoli

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

Parents and communities never asked to give up their say in how their public schools are governed.

Now, the Ford government is proposing rules that would leave newly elected trustees at eight supervised school boards waiting to be sworn in until provincial supervision ends. But there is no clear timeline.

Communities could cast their ballots, only to have their chosen representatives sidelined while provincial appointees continue making decisions about their schools.

Public education belongs to the public.

Parents, students and communities deserve accountable local representatives who can raise their concerns, question decisions and act on their behalf.

The Ford government must restore local decision-making and respect the voices of the people our schools serve.

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#OSSTF #OntEd #OnPoli

[Chantal Mancini, PhD @uniongrrl]

Education support staff are some of the lowest paid in #onted. Their essential labour keeps schools running but is less publicly visible. Withdrawing their labour in its entirety will fully demonstrate just how important (and undervalued) they truly are. #canlab

[CPAC @CPAC_TV]

“I have a message for American friends. Yes, Canada is a generous, open country and Canadians are tolerant and kind. But never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness."

— Former PM Jean Chrétien, speaking at 9/11 commemoration ceremony in Gander, N.L.

[Michael Gerald Gibbs @Mikeggibbs]

Dear humans around the world:

That thunderclap you just heard came from Gander, Newfoundland.

At 92 years old, Jean Chretien just gave the speech of his life.

With the most memorable, important words of his life.

Because he speaks for what most Canadians are feeling in our stomachs and hearts today, better than anyone else could.

God bless him. God bless Canada.
#911Remembrance

[OPSEU/SEFPO @OPSEU]

How can you have an Ontario Science Centre with no Science Unit?

Staff were informed today that 18% of jobs would be cut due to “organizational changes” including the elimination of the standalone Science Unit.

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

This morning in Waterloo Region, #OSSTF District 24 CAMA and Unifor Local 302 stood together to push back against the contracting out of custodial and maintenance work at Giinawind Public School.

These workers know their schools, their communities, and the work it takes to keep students safe every day.

Public schools deserve public workers.

We will keep fighting to protect good union jobs and stop privatization in publicly funded education.

#OntEd #BackToSchool

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

This Labour Day, we remember where our power comes from: each other.

Public education, public health care, and all the public services we rely on were not simply handed to us. Working people organized, fought for them, and won them.

That same power is ours today.

At this year’s Union Leadership Academy, #OSSTF members and labour leaders came together with a clear message: organized people can do anything.

We stand together.
We tell our stories.
We organize our workplaces & communities.
And we fight for the respect, opportunity, and investments that workers and communities deserve.

Because when working people act together, there is no stronger force ✊🏽

#LabourDay #OSSTF #OnLab #OntEd

[Catherine Fife @CFifeKW]

As another school year starts in Ontario, the intentional underfunding of our public education system continues. The govt knows the funding formula is outdated, does not keep pace with inflation or student needs.
An excellent summary by @ricardo_tranjan @ccpa #onpoli

[Catherine Fife @CFifeKW]

So many Ontario contracts have gone to US companies since the last time Ford said "trust me" - hopefully Ontario doesn't fall for the gaslighting again. #onpoli

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[Mike J. 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @MikeJToronto]

Day 1 of expired teacher, ed worker...and custodial staff contracts.

5 different unions, all bargaining at the same time.

Custodians are required for schools to be open.

Let's hope @PaulCalandra gets serious and no job action is necessary.

Call your MPP!

#onted #onpoli

[Vicki Buder @vbuder]

Fight for Education!

Across Ontario this weekend, communities came together for a province-wide Day of Action for public education.

[OSSTF Communications @osstf]

3 DAYS until our school board members’ collective agreements expire.

#OSSTF and the government should be at the bargaining table addressing the urgent issues facing Ontario’s schools, including class sizes, workloads, staffing shortages, job loss and contracting out.

Instead, the Ford government is trying to pull an unprecedented number of issues away from local bargaining, denying local Bargaining Units and school board employers the ability to negotiate key local issues themselves.

Our members deserve real bargaining. We are ready to get to work and are prepared to stand together to defend public education ✊🏽

#OntEd #OnPoli

[Kate @DrKateTO]

Oops they did it again.

The @fordnation MPPs are frantically tweeting about Buying Ontario, meanwhile the Premier and @PaulCalandra have chosen to give away $60,000,000 in Ontario taxpayer $$$ to an American company with their Staples Schools Supplies Scheme.

#onpoli #onted

[HSPhysicsteacher @HPhysicsteacher]

Imagine a government boasting that nurses will finally receive $750 to buy hospital supplies, or police officers an allowance for essential equipment.

It would be an admission of systemic failure.

But when it’s teachers, chronic underfunding gets rebranded as generosity #onted

[Martha Hradowy @marthahradowy]

Get out of Staples #onted

[Kate @DrKateTO]

Premier @fordnation is about to funnel $60,000,000 Ontario taxpayer dollars to the American @StaplesStores as part of his new school supplies scheme.

Cancel this deal and give Ontario educators the right to buy supplies from Canadian retailers and local businesses! #onted

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

It’s hard to negotiate when the Education Minister is on a different planet.

Paul Calandra says he’s “optimistic” about a deal while preparing taxpayer-funded attack ads against teachers.

Stop preparing for a fight. Start fixing our schools. #onpoli
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