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Jun 10
Laila, a Community Service Worker at Dr. Roz’s Healing Place in Mississauga says she and her co-workers are currently on strike to demand a retroactive pay raise of 6.5% to make up for what was stolen from them due to Doug Ford’s unconstitutional Bill 124.
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Data Centres bring noise pollution, water contamination, higher utility bills, all while creating relatively few jobs. They create profits for the few and provide no social benefit for the rest of us.
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Durham teachers came together at the Ajax Pride Parade to stand in solidarity with 2SLGBTQIA students, families, educators, and community members.
Public education is built on the belief that every person deserves to be safe, valued, respected. @osstf @ETFOeducators @OECTAProv
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Massive picket line in support of striking Sistering workers who are unionized with OPSEU. Workers are fighting for higher wages and more funding #WorthFightingFor
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Due to massive community pressure Hamilton's Committee of Adjustment denied Slate Asset Management's application for land severance that would be used to develop an A.I. data centre
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Thousands of community and social service workers in Ontario, unionized under OPSEU, are currently on strike or locked out of their workplaces as they fight the provincial government’s chronic mishandling of their sector. #WorthFightingFor #onpoli
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"From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor" from @haymarketbooks is valuable recounting of the International Socialists efforts to build a revolutionary working-class current in the United States. @NeeedlesEye
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May 30
Thousands in the streets of Valencia, Spain. Teachers are on strike for better public funding and working conditions! Similar protests are taking place across the country. This is what it looks like to stand up and demand that the government FUND THE FRONTLINES!
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May 28
"Ford’s government is eager to defund places like this (Sistering) because he wants to be able to crowd out these neighborhoods so that he can sell it off to his developer buddies." #WorthFightingFor
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May 28
Thousands march through Toronto in defence of public healthcare.
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May 28
Yolanda McLean, the first Black president of CUPE Ontario, fires up the crowd in defence of public healthcare.
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May 28
Today, thousands of Ontarians will be converging on Union Station in Toronto to Stop Ford’s hospital privatization train wreck. @OntarioHealthC
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May 27
Let's show up for public service workers! #WorthFightingFor
May 26
Over 4,000 social service workers across Ontario are currently either on strike or locked out.
Join Spring on Friday, May 29 at 12pm for a phone zap to support striking OPSEU workers by pressuring the government. @OPSEU
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May 26
“We are withholding our rent until the board explains how they got to this rent increase, and shows us they have done their best to find the funding elsewhere” #topoli
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May 26
Over 4,000 social service workers across Ontario are currently either on strike or locked out.
Join Spring on Friday, May 29 at 12pm for a phone zap to support striking OPSEU workers by pressuring the government. @OPSEU
#worthfightingfor
Register: bit.ly/fundthefrontline
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May 26
Striking workers at Salvation Army Broadview Village hit the picket line. Workers, represented by @OPSEU are fighting for higher wages! This part of the #WorthFightingFor campaign.
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May 25
Community service workers at Sistering in Toronto are on strike for better wages! #onpoli #WorthFightingFor
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May 25
Community Living Central York workers are on strike this morning. 19 OPSEU locals representing social service workers are on strike across the province for better wages. 3 other locals are locked out. Ford's underfunding of social services is creating a crisis. #WorthFightingFor
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May 25
Through cuts and power grabs, the Conservative government is eating away at everything that makes classrooms functional. #OntEdUnited #Redfored #onpoli
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