Education Workers Deserve Better

Ontario education is in desperate need of significantly more funding to properly staff our schools. We need thousands of more Educational Assistants, Child and Youth Workers, Registered Early Childhood Educators and other one-on-one educators to work at our schools immediately.

Violence should not be part of the job

Seventy-five percent of CUPE education workers in Ontario say they experience a violent incident on the job, and over half of Educational Assistants and Child and Youth Workers say it happens every day. Almost 50 percent of education workers say their work area is evacuated because of a violent or disruptive incident.

We need the government to implement a plan for concrete action immediately.

Ontario Government’s Workplace Violence in School Boards: A guide to the law:

This Ontario government guide includes information to help workplace parties understand the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) workplace violence requirements to protect the health and safety of workers in all school board workplaces (e.g., board offices, schools, non-traditional classrooms, etc.). More...