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Sefton, Terry – Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 2022
Labour strife in the education sector in Ontario has repeatedly highlighted the precariousness of certain types of teaching and learning that are delivered under the catch-all designation extracurricular. This paper reviews education legislation in Ontario over the past 40 years that has impacted teachers' right to strike; examines how teacher…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries, Labor Demands, Educational Legislation
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Karsgaard, Carrie; Davidson, Debra – Educational Review, 2023
In recent years, youth across the planet have begun to mobilise, motivated by the perceived injustices associated with the causes, consequences and politics of climate change. However, education systems lag behind, preoccupied with the "what" and "how" of climate change, rather than engaging it as a social issue in which…
Descriptors: Youth, Activism, Climate, Environmental Education
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Karimi, Sirvan – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
The prevalence of labour disruptions in the Canadian education sector requires a comprehensive analysis of the adverse implications of strikes for stakeholders and Canadian society in general. Education is a kind of public good that generates positive externalities and strikes in Canadian universities and colleges engender negative externalities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Strikes, Arbitration, Higher Education
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Campolieti, Michele – Sociological Methods & Research, 2019
Using Canadian data from 1976 to 2014, I study the size distribution of strikes with three alternative measures of strike size: the number of workers on strike, strike duration in calendar days, and the number of person calendar days lost to a strike. I use a maximum likelihood framework that provides a way to estimate distributions, evaluate…
Descriptors: Strikes, Foreign Countries, Unions, Collective Bargaining
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Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory; Fowler, Teresa Anne – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
The Youth Strike for Climate raised important global attention to interconnected climate, energy and environmental issues -- it also compelled us to consider what we will do to address these pressing challenges. Developed through consideration of such dynamics, we propose critical energy literacy as an emerging theory that denotes understanding of…
Descriptors: Strikes, Climate, Energy Conservation, Conservation (Environment)
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Doughty, Howard A. – International Journal of Adult Education and Technology, 2021
On October 16, 2017, over 12,000 faculty, librarians, and counsellors in 24 independent postsecondary colleges in Ontario, Canada went on strike for the fourth time since they organized in 1971 as members of the Civil Service Association of Ontario and won their first collective agreement the next year. Begun as an apolitical, self-consciously…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Strikes, Collective Bargaining
Baker, Michael – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect student performance. I present new estimates from a…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Academic Achievement, Scores, Elementary School Students
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Unger, Zoe – College Quarterly, 2013
This paper considers the history of Québec's higher education system and the reforms that have contributed to the role of education in the province. Québec's education system has repeatedly been a site for social and political transformation; most recently, reevaluation of education's role in the province has revealed a tension between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, Role of Education
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2013
In October 2012, Premier Christy Clark announced government would consult with the education partners for the purpose of reviewing teacher bargaining structures and processes with the goal of providing a more stable learning environment for British Columbia students. The review looked for opportunities to achieve two priorities: (1) Create…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Improvement, Public Education, Collective Bargaining
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Barnetson, Bob – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010
In 2002, approximately two thirds of school teachers in the Canadian province of Alberta went on strike. Drawing on media, government and union documents, this case study reveals some contours of the political economy of labor relations in education that are normally hidden from view. Among these features are that the state can react to worker…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Working Class, Labor Relations, Labor