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The 2018 York University strike was a strike by CUPE Local 3903, the union representing contract professors, teaching assistants, and graduate assistants at York University. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] At 143 days long it is the longest strike in the post-secondary sector in Canadian history, surpassing the previous record of the 1976 Laval University 108-day ...
Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The 2024 Canada Post strike was a strike action against Canada Post by the national membership of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). The strike began on November 15, 2024 [1] and suspended on December 17. [2] The strike may start again on May 22, 2025. [3]
PSAC strikers outside a CRA office in Surrey, British Columbia. On April 7, the CRA bargaining group voted to enter a legal strike position. [21] On April 12, the national president of PSAC, Chris Aylward, announced that the Treasury Board bargaining unit had voted overwhelmingly in favour of entering into a legal strike position, thus granting the group a 60-day window to initiate a labour ...
Ontario College Professor John Stammers fatally injured while trying to stop car from crossing picket line. [52] Ontario college strike: What you need to know Ontario colleges to resume classes after bitter strike; 2007 - Supreme Court of Canada rules that collective bargaining is a constitutional right protected by The Charter of Rights and ...
A common tactic of student protest is to go on strike (sometimes called a boycott of classes), which occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class. It is meant to resemble strike action by organized labour. Whereas a normal strike is intended to inflict economic damage to ...
The 2018 Canada Post strikes were a series of rotating strikes, which began on October 22, 2018, [1] against Canada Post by members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Strikers sought "better pay, more job security and minimum guaranteed hours."
2021 Oregon Tech strike, dispute between faculty members represented by the American Association of University Professors and the Oregon Institute of Technology in the United States; 2021 Port of Montreal strike; [16] [17] 2021 Thurrock bin strike, dispute between bin workers represented by Unite the Union and Thurrock Council in England;