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.
Education
How West Virginia teachers started a revolt
Film length: 13:44 As teachers in more and more republican states in the USA take unofficial strike action to defend education, West Virginia teachers explain how they started the movement, and how they organised strikes […]
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 […]
Council Workers
Southampton, 3rd August: city council strike escalates
Film Length: 14:01 ***FULL RESOLUTION VERSION AVAILABLE ON REEL NEWS 29 ** Council workers in Southampton are staging a serious fightback against Tory cuts. Rolling strike action by groups of key workers section by section […]