No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario 9780773567900

The Ontario Public Service Employee Union (OPSEU) was an early target of the Mike Harris Common Sense Revolutionaries, n

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No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike against the Harris Government in Ontario
 9780773567900

Table of contents :
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Illustrations
Introduction: Civil Servants Demonstrate, and the OPP riots
PART ONE: BACKGROUND
1 OPSEU Acquires the Right to Strike
2 The World Changes for Ontario
3 The World Changes for Civil Servants
PART TWO: THE STRIKE EMERGES
4 Opposition to the Harris Government
5 Collective Bargaining until the Strike
6 OPSEU Builds for the Strike
PART THREE: OPSEU ON STRIKE
7 OPSEU Goes on Strike
8 The Politics of Picketing
9 The Picket Line Community
10 The Wider Community
11 Essential Services: A Limited Strike
12 Legal Issues
13 Collective Bargaining during the Strike
14 The Strike Ends
APPENDICES
A: The Strike Vocabulary
B: A Week-by-Week Chronology of the Strike
C: OPSEU Strike: Financial Statistics
D: Results of the Three OPSEU Polls of the Membership
E: List of People Interviewed
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A
B
C
D
E
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G
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