If the government was legislating you into a multi-year pay cut (during an affordability crisis), how would you feel?
How about if you made $39,000 for critical work that made education possible and safe?
Everyone should stand with CUPE education workers.
And if your private employer is screwing you in a similar way, that’s not an argument to throw CUPE workers under the bus.
It’s an argument for higher unionization rates in the private sector and for solidarity across the board.
The fight against Doug Ford’s strike-busting, constitution crushing bullying is a fight over rights for *all of us*.
Do the right thing today and you’ll be working to protect your own rights for tomorrow.
Don’t give Ford an inch. Bring the government of Ontario to its knees until it gives workers a fair deal and stops its unprecedented assault on labour rights. #GeneralStrike
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I cannot stress enough how critical this moment is. If governments in Canada can smash the constitution and legislate away the right to strike, collective bargaining rights are dead.
If collective bargaining rights die, workers across the country are goners.
That means you.
This is a critical juncture.
The way of the Ford government is the way of oppression, austerity, and suffering.
The way of solidarity and union rights is the way of better jobs, better pay, and better lives.
Don’t fuck this up, people. And don’t let the government and its right wing water carriers divide you by pretending they care about students. They don’t. They care about themselves.
“Pierre is a career politician who has been collecting a six-figure salary on the public’s dime since he was 24, and he’s spent every minute of his time in office fighting against fair wages, good pensions and a better life for working people.”
“He is not a worker, and he definitely doesn’t get what it means to be a member of the working class.”
“Pierre has spent his leadership campaign making the Conservative Party a cozier place for far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists in order to sell memberships.”
Good evening and welcome to my thread on the 2022 Conservative Party leadership event.
We're now into the part of the evening where we all use sports analogies and metaphors to talk about the night and treat our politics as an exclusively strategic concern devoid of substance, as if policy was an afterthought, which I suppose it is.
Scheer says "government subsidized media" on CBC, so mark that stupid shit off on your bingo card.
It’s not a state of mind. It’s a sociological relationship.
The question then becomes what are you doing with the power that comes with being an elite? Are you working to uphold repressive and exploitative institutions? Are you pushing back against power when it exploits people? Who do your words and actions serve? To what end?
Democracy is in decline globally—and has been for years. It’s not getting better. And a handful of growing and overlapping crises are only going to make things worse.
Democracy is an historical exception, not rule. It’s hard to build and easy to lose. Economic democracy is rarer still but essential to political democracy. You’ve gotta want it or it’s a goner.
The collapse of US democracy — long flawed and exclusionary in its best years — is certainly not helping either.