Solidarity with CUPE education workers

You have hopefully received an email with a press release sharing OPSEU/SEFPO education workers will walk off the job this Friday in a show of solidarity with their CUPE colleagues in a province-wide protest against Stephen Lecce and the Ford government’s Bill 28.

Please know that we’re ‘CAAT-A/College Faculty’, not ‘Education Workers/Sector 3’. Education workers are another sector within OPSEU/SEFPO (specifically, Boards of Education and Cultural Institutions)

Here are some ways faculty can support the CUPE education workers:

• Attend a protest (if not in class/working)
  • Click here to find the nearest CUPE rally to you by postal code.
• Phone an MPP, or visit their office
  • Click for contact information of all current MPPs
• Send an email to defend workers rights in Ontario
  • Take action in less than 1 minute with the Ontario Federation of Labour’s email campaign
• Share information via social media
  • Use the hashtags #39kIsNotEnough, #SupportEducationWorkers, #ONpoli, #ontedsolidarity, #EducationMatters, #onlab
  • Share posts from @osbcucscso, @CUPEOntario, @OFLabour
  • Tag @fordnation and @Sfleece
• Talk to your students/colleagues/neighbors about what’s happening
  • The Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario issued a public statement in support of CUPE today: https://t.co/3NuFx6NvUS
• Wear purple every Wednesday in support of education workers