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Stop education workers from getting sick
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Five unions in Ontario are demanding that teachers and other education workers be vaccinated immediately. Plus more labour news.
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New ways to fight grocery corporations needed
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | RadioLabour's Canada Report: Dominion workers won more full-time jobs, but new bargaining strategies needed. The pandemic's effect on women teachers. And more.
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Amy Greer pictured during this week's press conference. ​Image: Screenshot taken during this week's press conference.
Current school cohorting practices are ineffective and leave itinerant teachers at increased risk, say experts
Chelsea Nash | At a press conference hosted by four Ontario teacher unions, epidemiologists warned that autumn will bring higher rates of COVID-19 infection if changes are not implemented.
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Doug Ford visits a school this September flanked by Education Minister Stephen Lecce and staffers. Image: Doug Ford/Twitter
Pandemic has cleared the way for Doug Ford's plans to privatize education
Jason Kunin | COVID-19 has undermined trust in the public school system, created mass incentive for private school and homeschooling options, and achieved a level of public acceptance for e-learning.
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Toronto adult day school teachers didn't know if they were returning to work until one business day before school started
Chelsea Nash | Adult day school teachers are precariously employed, have no job security, no benefits and are paid less than regular high school teachers.
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'The body says no': Three teachers on their decisions not to return to school this fall
Chelsea Nash | Health reasons, but also not wanting to participate in a plan they say was not made with students or staff in mind, are contributing to teachers' decisions to hold off on returning to school.
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Doug Ford gives a press briefing on August 21, 2020. Image: Doug Ford/Twitter
Ontario school reopenings show the old Doug Ford is returning
Rick Salutin | We're back at Toronto City Hall and the Raptors' victory rally. Cue the boos at Ontario Premier Doug Ford's name.
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Infrastructure failings mean Ontario schools are primed for spreading disease, teachers warn
Chelsea Nash | Chronic underfunding of public schools in Ontario has forced school boards to choose between funding educational programming and funding maintenance.
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A teacher uprising in Ontario
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough, Derek Blackadder | RadioLabour's Canada Report: 200,000 strike to protect quality education for the children. And more.
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Striking back for the students
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough, Derek Blackadder | RadioLabour's Canada Report: Secondary school teachers strike against the Ford government's cuts to education. And more.
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Teachers' strike and poetry on the picket line
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough, Derek Blackadder | RadioLabour's Canada Report: Ontario teachers strike for the students. And the poetry of a B.C. picket line.
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Teachers tell Ford to stop hurting the children
Marc Belanger, Derek Blackadder, C. Marie Ainsborough | RadioLabour's Canada Report: Teachers in Ontario are for students and against cuts to education -- an interview with ETFO president Sam Hammond.