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For workers whose wages have fallen behind, the prospect of not having to strike is tantalizing. Buttons on a person in a picket line outside the Toronto District School Board head office in December 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

August 29, 2023

For Ontario teachers, arbitration is no substitute for the right to strike

Stephanie Ross, McMaster University and Larry Savage, Brock University

Trading the right to strike for binding interest arbitration is a minefield for unions.

Susan Hoenhous and other teachers of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario participate in a full withdrawal of services strike in Toronto on Jan. 20, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

January 21, 2020

Mike Harris’s ‘common sense’ attack on Ontario schools is back — and so are teachers’ strikes

Stephanie Chitpin, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa

For some teachers, this week’s rotating strikes in Ontario are a chilling reminder of the school fallout of 1995-2002, when Mike Harris was premier.

Teachers walk the picket line outside Northern Secondary School in Toronto, on Dec. 4, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

January 21, 2020

Curious Kids: Do teachers get paid when they go on strike?

Charles Ungerleider, University of British Columbia

Short answer: they don’t. But striking teachers often receive a bit of financial help during a strike from money they themselves have already paid to their unions.

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Charles Ungerleider
Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia
Stephanie Chitpin
Professor of leadership, Faculty of Education, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Larry Savage
Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
Stephanie Ross
Associate Professor, School of Labour Studies, McMaster University

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