{"id":61616,"date":"2019-10-28T08:34:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=61616"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:55:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:55:41","slug":"mindzak-what-striking-education-workers-and-climate-activists-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/10\/mindzak-what-striking-education-workers-and-climate-activists-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"MINDZAK: What striking education workers and climate activists have in common"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mindzak, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education at Brock,\u00a0wrote\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-striking-education-workers-and-climate-activists-have-in-common-125533?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019+CID_94f3c15c3b7547cbdc6a1993e446e413&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=What%20striking%20education%20workers%20and%20climate%20activists%20have%20in%20common\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in <em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> about what striking education workers and climate activists have in common.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Tensions and labour unrest continues in Ontario between the current government and workers in schools. After a labour negotiation impassein early October, some parents were recently left wondering whether kids\u2019 schools were set to close because of strikes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On Oct. 6, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), representing workers such as school custodians and educational assistants, announced a new collective agreement, but labour action by teachers also remains a looming possibility.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Education workers across the province have denounced education cuts\u00a0that mean inadequate funding to cover basic student needs and school services, and leave teachers with excessive workloads.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Simultaneously, this fall, striking students and youth hit the streets. Thousands of protestors, some of whom ditched classes, marched on Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto in solidarity with climate activists globally. As a follow-up, climate activists blocked a road intersection in Toronto and such actions have continued across the country and the globe.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/what-striking-education-workers-and-climate-activists-have-in-common-125533?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20October%2025%202019+CID_94f3c15c3b7547cbdc6a1993e446e413&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=What%20striking%20education%20workers%20and%20climate%20activists%20have%20in%20common\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Mindzak, an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock,\u00a0wrote\u00a0a piece recently published in The Conversation about what striking education workers and climate activists have in common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,7,6],"tags":[7947,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61634,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61616\/revisions\/61634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}