May 31, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video
For six years, Martin Long was president of the Toronto Teachers’ Federation, an early amalgamation of teachers from the FWTAO and the OPSTF. He discusses the 1987 strike over preparation time, the Social Contract, and the fight against the Harris...
May 25, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video
Vivian McCaffrey began her career as the Government Relations staff member for the Ontario Public School Teachers’ Federation (OPSTF), then men elementary teachers’ union, in 1981. She became a staff member of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) at...
Mar 21, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video
Born in South Africa and with a career as a teacher in Durban, Jay Nair was forced to flee for political reasons and ended up in Canada, first as a security guard and then as a meat-cutter, where he became active in the United Food and Commercial Workers. In this...
Nov 22, 2021 | Oral History Project, Video
For Marshall Jarvis, union activism started when he filed a grievance while a teacher at the York Region Catholic school board and was not satisfied with how his union handled it. Sixteen years later, he was provincial president of the Ontario English Catholic...
