THE STRUGGLE FOR CHILD CARE

Tuesday 12 October 7 pm on ZOOM A new federally sponsored child-care program is unfolding across Canada. This initiative didn’t fall from the sky – it’s the result of decades of agitation by child-care activists in Toronto and the rest of the country. We are bringing...
Phyllis Benedict (Lennox)

Phyllis Benedict (Lennox)

 This interview follows Phyllis Benedict’s (Lennox) career as a teachers’ union leader. As a classroom teacher, she was a member of the Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario (FWTAO).  She became a voluntary member of the Ontario Public School...
Dave Lennox

Dave Lennox

Dave Lennox was President of the Ontario Public School Teachers’ Federation (OPSTF), the men elementary teachers’ union, in the early 1980s. He became the union’s secretary-treasurer in 1987, a position he held during the 1997 two-week strike against...
Author: robertmurdoch