Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Housing/Gentrification
Spectacular victory for St. Mungo’s Broadway strikers
Film length: 10:52 A spectacular victory – and a potentially very significant one – for St. Mungo’s Broadway housing workers, just as they were about to embark on 10 straight days of strike action. Management […]
International
Toronto Women’s Day March demands justice for Tina Fontaine
Film length: 14:11 Toronto always has one of the largest marches in the world to commemorate International Women’s Day and this year was no exception – a powerful, angry march demanding justice for First Nations […]
Transport
Southern Rail strike: It’s all about safety
Film length: 3:02 As railworkers in the RMT and ASLEF try and curb Southern’s disastrous running of the franchise which is seriously jeopardising the safety of passengers, proof that it’s the Government – NOT the […]