School funding

3 Minutes

Canada Labour

Ontario’s province-wide college strike is a fight for both a decent contract and to protect public colleges

PV September 15, 2025

PV Ontario Bureau The current strike by 10,000 college support staff, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), is a struggle that brings together the workplace-based fight for […]...

7 Minutes

Canada Labour

Special education funding cuts are fueling Ontario’s failing economic and social health, report shows

PV May 26, 2025

Broad coalition of labour, parent and community groups needed to confront and fix crisis By Helen Kennedy A recent report by the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) reveals that […]...

5 Minutes

Canada Labour

Unions connect workplace violence with cuts to special education funding in schools

PV April 15, 2025

By Silla Tauler During the recent provincial election campaign in Ontario, education workers’ unions tried (largely in vain) to highlight ways that chronic underfunding of schools is beginning to have […]...

4 Minutes

Canada Labour

BC needs more teachers and schools – not cops and bombs

PV March 14, 2025

The annual meeting of the BC Teachers Federation takes place March 15-18 in Vancouver. This gathering of the historic organization representing over 51,000 teachers – two-thirds of all those with […]...