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The Ford government introduced Bill 28, the Keeping Students in Class Act, four days BEFORE bargaining with CUPE education workers was done.
Bill 28 is pre-emptive back-to-work legislation that FORCES the government’s offer on workers and OVERRIDES their rights and freedoms under the Charter and Human Rights Code for five years.
This is NOT bargaining in good faith.
This is NOT bargaining in good faith.
1/My son is autistic. He’s 9.5. Amazing. Solid. Unfettered strength that can take both his parents down. Non-conversational. Developmental age of under 3. No regard for danger. Hyperactive with a low attention span and rarely sits still for longer than a minute. He uses movement 
2/to self-regulate. Lives his best life, every day like it’s his last. No time for anything that isn’t in his Top 5 of awesome things to do. He goes to school for half days in the mornings, and attends a therapy program in the afternoons. His schedule was built this way
3/because he fails to be productive after 3 hours and is always ready for a change of scenery.
He has a dedicated 1:1 EA that is by his side for every second that his feet are on school grounds (or hovering above school grounds when darting or frolicking from one end of the yard
He has a dedicated 1:1 EA that is by his side for every second that his feet are on school grounds (or hovering above school grounds when darting or frolicking from one end of the yard
#SolidaritySaturday!
Toronto took over Yonge-Dundas Square to say: “We support education workers!” & “Hands Off Workers’ Rights!”
#IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab #OnPoli
Toronto took over Yonge-Dundas Square to say: “We support education workers!” & “Hands Off Workers’ Rights!”
#IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab #OnPoli
It’s #SolidaritySaturday!
Make your solidarity with education workers visible.
TORONTO
WHEN: 12PM - 1PM
WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square
ofl.ca/event/solidari… #IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab
Make your solidarity with education workers visible.
TORONTO
WHEN: 12PM - 1PM
WHERE: Yonge-Dundas Square
ofl.ca/event/solidari… #IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab
#SolidaritySaturday
BURLINGTON
WHEN: 12PM - 1PM
WHERE: PC MPP Natalie Pierre’s office, 3027 Harvester Rd.
#IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab
BURLINGTON
WHEN: 12PM - 1PM
WHERE: PC MPP Natalie Pierre’s office, 3027 Harvester Rd.
#IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab
#SolidaritySaturday
ETOBICOKE
WHEN: 12PM - 1PM
WHERE: Albion Rd. & Kipling Ave.
#IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab
ETOBICOKE
WHEN: 12PM - 1PM
WHERE: Albion Rd. & Kipling Ave.
#IStandWithCUPE #39kIsNotEnough #OntEd #OnLab
They are indoor cats so they cannot go out to attend a picket.
You will have to share their message to get them out there.
#39kIsNotEnough #EducationWorkers #strike
You will have to share their message to get them out there.
#39kIsNotEnough #EducationWorkers #strike
Fitz especially is a fan of multiple education workers in particular. He is familiar with how rowdy kids can be, and gets that his worker friends need to be supported in order to do their jobs well and thrive.
They need support in this strike! #39kIsNotEnough
They need support in this strike! #39kIsNotEnough
Revan is equally strong in his love for kids! He's showing solidarity for his fave 5 year old, who needs EAs, ECEs, caretakers, and secretaries to keep his school running safely!
#EducationWorkers 💜
#EducationWorkers 💜
1/The hand off.
My son is severely autistic with an intellectual delay. He is 9 & can use limited words to ask me for juice, to go outside or demand his weekly Timbits ration. Beyond that, we cannot converse. I don’t know how he’s feeling, if he’s nervous, unsettled or scared.
My son is severely autistic with an intellectual delay. He is 9 & can use limited words to ask me for juice, to go outside or demand his weekly Timbits ration. Beyond that, we cannot converse. I don’t know how he’s feeling, if he’s nervous, unsettled or scared.
2/ I have only the cues and clues we are able to gather from tears & giggles, and the signs of eagerness or apprehension.
I dreaded the day he started school. The thought of handing him off to a stranger in the care of 30 other 4 yos was not something my mind could compute.
I dreaded the day he started school. The thought of handing him off to a stranger in the care of 30 other 4 yos was not something my mind could compute.
3/ Further to that, it just wasn’t an option. I wouldn’t do it. I struggled with the daily challenges of supporting his needs with a 2 year old in tow, in my own home where I could lock the doors and cupboards and use every childproofing device I could find. My son is curious and
1/Children in Ontario have the right to an education. That should be the case whether they have a disability or not. Educational Assistants are ACCESSIBILITY PERSONIFIED for children with disabilities.
They enable access. They allow my child & others to enter a school. Without
They enable access. They allow my child & others to enter a school. Without
2/EAs the doors to education are closed to my child every day of the year.
I am nothing less than disturbed that the government elected by 40% of our population fails not only to value, but to recognize the value of these individuals who care for the province’s most
I am nothing less than disturbed that the government elected by 40% of our population fails not only to value, but to recognize the value of these individuals who care for the province’s most
3/vulnerable children when their mothers and fathers and caregivers cannot.
Let me be perfectly clear. @Sflecce stands before the cameras and makes feeble attempts to turn parents like me against the people we have hoped for. And begged for. And put ALL of our trust in as
Let me be perfectly clear. @Sflecce stands before the cameras and makes feeble attempts to turn parents like me against the people we have hoped for. And begged for. And put ALL of our trust in as
Let me tell you about the maze book.
When my kid started kindergarten in the @tdsb in 2020 things were HARD.
Not just regular starting kindergarten hard. Really hard.
1/ I have a child with an autism diagnosis and intellectual delay. He is 9. He spends his mornings included in a Grade 4 classroom.
2/ He is not doing what his classmates do. He works at his own pace, with his own (extremely) modified curriculum while he practices sitting at a desk for longer than 20 minutes.
3/ He has the kind of needs that dictate he be supervised at all times. ALL. TIMES. If you have children, consider that feeling when you watch them climb onto the yellow bus and then wave from their window—or when your teenager flies through the kitchen, grabs their lunch and
1/ Statement from PIPSC President Jennifer Carr on Doug Ford's union busting, Charter-breaching tactics (a thread):
What Doug Ford is doing is an unprecedented attack on labour rights in Ontario.
#onpoli #39kIsNotEnough #CUPE #notwithstandingclause
What Doug Ford is doing is an unprecedented attack on labour rights in Ontario.
#onpoli #39kIsNotEnough #CUPE #notwithstandingclause
2/ Make no mistake – if Doug Ford succeeds in invoking the #notwithstandingclause to avoid bargaining with @CUPEOntario, he'll do that every time he finds anyone’s constitutional rights to be inconvenient to his agenda.
#onpoli #39kIsNotEnough #CUPE #OnLab
#onpoli #39kIsNotEnough #CUPE #OnLab
3/ It will be used by every right-wing provincial and federal gov't to ignore their obligations to bargain fairly. These actions will erode our hard-won rights – not just the right to collective bargaining, but every right enshrined in the Charter.
#onpoli #39kIsNotEnough
#onpoli #39kIsNotEnough
So tired of being blamed for the “uncertainty” in Education. We ARE the certainty. We are the people who showed up during a global pandemic and made the best out of a terrible, uncertain time. Here’s just a few of the ways EDUCATION WORKERS showed up for kids :
Hosted an outdoor graduation “ceremony” for students who were graduating - where we took photos of students in caps and gowns (that we also washed and dryed same day) that we then e-mailed to
Students to help them celebrate their accomplishments.
Students to help them celebrate their accomplishments.
We collected, organized, cleaned and DELIVERED technology to students. To their homes in many cases.
