#education workers

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Education workers with the Peel District School Board, including educational assistants, early childhood educators and child and youth care practitioners, have voted in favour of strike action as negotiations continue between the school board and the Ontario Public Service Employees Union Local 2100. About 3,200 of the 4,000 employees in Local 2100 participated in the vote, with 98 per cent of them voting in favour of strike action, according to a news release issued Friday. 

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[sylvies-chen]

I’m not a political blog, I am aware of this, but the strike situation with education workers in Ontario right now is insane and if you’re someone who can’t see why these strikes are so important, you are part of the problem.

My mother was an English teacher for 30 years but is now retired. She stays in touch with her former colleagues, many of whom are still teachers. She spoke with one of them the other day, who is still an Educational Assistant. This woman has $400 dollars in her bank account, and will be spending $150 for a car repair. She has bills that companies are hounding her for that she can’t pay. Her husband is trying to get more work but they will most likely need to go to a food bank to survive. One of the students she works with attacked her the other day (the product of a breakdown where he wasn’t in control of his actions, and she has repeatedly stated she doesn’t blame him which shows the kindness in her heart). She has a bruise on her leg the size of a football because the kid threw a chair at her. Those are the kinds of things she has to go through for her job, and she is still not getting paid enough money to pay her bills and buy food to fucking survive.

Conservatives who do not want to raise wages for education workers will claim that school needs to continue no matter the cost. They will try to enforce this very real possibility that the government, for the first time in history, use the notwithstanding clause to prohibit further protest by teachers. They will happily celebrate the suppression of unions without ever seeing firsthand what EAs, guidance counselors, teachers, secretarial staff, and support workers in classrooms have to go through every day. So if you live in Ontario, please go picket if you can and support the education workers in your community. They deserve some love— and they deserve to get paid.

[inkskinned]

the thing is that they're so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they can't imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.

sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.

you can't tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, that's sexual in nature, because the body isn't a body, it's a vessel of sex. it doesn't matter that it's been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know it's 'dirty' to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that they're sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.

it's gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.

but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.

they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.

they will crow that it's inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. it's teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words "barely legal," a hiss of glass sand over your skin.

barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isn't god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.

and they love sex but they hate that you're having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you can't kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you can't get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you can't admit you were sexually assaulted because real men don't get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you aren't ready yet.

but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.

they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write don't say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight it's staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say it's normal!

this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.

[chittychittyyangyang]

Listen, you should never film strangers in public without their consent, but I swear there need to be fines or something for people who do that shit in some spaces. For example: I had to go to the ER last night, and some jerk filmed a woman who just came in and was clearly having an asthma attack. She immediately got to go back, and he was unhappy about that. Believe me, I get that it sucks having to wait when you're in pain, but you don't get to pick who deserves care when. The medical system in the US is a nightmare, and the ER could be the worst moment of someone's life. No one deserves to be recorded because some jack ass believes someone doesn't look like they need care.

This is fine to reblog. People who film strangers should be shamed if nothing else.

[reality-detective]

You don't learn this overnight. 🤔

[minute-minute]

Aimee Gibbs is one of the best characters on Sex Education and I love her character journey

[politijohn]

Solidarity

[soupedepates]

Y'all American really need to understand why unions and syndicalism are important in labour laws enforcement and fight for social rights.

Please look up some History about it. French History. The union protects the workers against the higher ups. The union organises the struggle WHEN IT IS NEEDED to be heard and respected. The union doesn't destroy company, it helps make it more liveable for the workers. Fair wages, fair hours, good workplace and being respected.

But somehow capitalism and ultraliberalism taught you that wanting to be treated like a human with wages that actually allow you to live decently is the most evil thing you can imagine. Bruh. Unionize. This is the way to have power against the higher ups when you're an exploited worker.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The union representing about 3,000 striking academic workers at York University voted in favour of accepting the tentative agreement with the post-secondary institution on Friday, bringing an end to a seven-week strike. On Friday afternoon, almost 1,600 members of CUPE 3903 participated in the ratification vote of a tentative Comprehensive Framework for Settlement. According to the union, Unit 1 (89.9 per cent), Unit 2 (93.8 per cent), and Unit 3 (90 per cent) voted in favour of accepting the deal, which means all three units have ratified the Employer’s latest offer. This means that the union’s contract faculty, teaching and graduate assistants, research assistants and part-time librarians at the north Toronto university will return to work on Monday, April 22, after walking off the job on Feb. 26. “Every striking member should feel unbelievably proud of the commitment you have shown to your fellow members, and the determination we have shown as a collective in our fight for a better workplace and more just future,” the union wrote in a statement Friday. [...]

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[hot-take-tournament]

HOT TAKE TOURNAMENT!

PRELIMINARY #262

Submission 901

Everyone should be required to work a "service sector" (food, retail, telephone tech support etc) job for a year while in highschool, otherwise they shouldn't graduate.

While, yeah, there are some folks who wouldn't get it (that's humankind for you), most folks would benefit from seeing what is actually in the control of your average service worker, and perhaps it would make working those jobs less traumatic in the long run.

Propaganda is always encouraged!

And remember to reblog your favourite polls for exposure!

[iww-gnv]

[T]he rank-and-file campaign goes beyond demanding an end to Israel’s military operations, which have killed at least 22,000 Palestinians, 12,000 of them children. Othman and other members want the NEA to revoke its endorsement of Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential race until the president secures a “permanent cease-fire,” stops “sending military funding, equipment, and intelligence to Israel,” and commits “to a fair due process for asylum-seekers and refugees.” “Until NEA takes this step,” a member petition states, signatories are planning to withhold voluntary donations from the union’s political action committee, which is used to support candidates. (Signatories are not planning to withhold their union dues.) The demand is eye-catching, because Biden appeared to really want the NEA’s endorsement: The president addressed the union by video at its last representative assembly in July 2023. And first lady Jill Biden has made her long-term membership in NEA a key part of her public political identity. “You—all of you—make me proud to be a longtime member of the NEA,” Jill Biden said in an August 2023 address to educators.

[ravenkings]

the highlighted part is the money shot imo..............

[saintartemis]

Musings of a Museum Professional.

Working with visitors means that you end up thinking of way better ways of answering a visitor's question, hours after the interaction.

[rattusn0rvegicus]

Hi. Misconception I'd like to dispel, that is commonly promoted by some real shitty medical professionals: "You have no place in the healthcare field as someone living with psychosis/serious mental illness."

Well, how about Carlos Larrauri, a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and advocate with schizophrenia?

How about Katharine Fox or Aashish Tagore, physicians who so courageously wrote of their own experiences with psychosis in a medical journal, risking the horrible effects of stigma?

What about Mark Vonnegut, a fucking Harvard pediatrician and author who has been diagnosed with severe schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and had multiple psychotic breaks resulting in hospitalization - who opened his own practice years after his diagnoses? He also wrote this article.

Or John Budin, a psychiatrist and advocate with bipolar disorder? Carol North, a psychiatrist and author with schizophrenia? Dan Fisher, a psychiatrist who works with the National Empowerment Center considers himself recovered from schizophrenia? Elizabeth Baxter, another schizophrenic psychiatrist? Wow, there's a lot of 'em!

How about the researchers with psychosis in the healthcare field who have done so much for the community, such as Elyn Saks, Patricia Deegan, Nev Jones, Ron Bassman, etc?

Oh, and here's an awesome article about recovery from schizophrenia that talks about a lot of these awesome folks. (there is discussion of psychiatric abuse, though, so be warned!)

I can guarantee you there's plenty more who aren't open about their experiences, given the societal stigma of psychosis and the much more extreme stigma of living with a serious mental illness in the medical profession.

(This post is not a "you're disabled? see, you have no excuses!" post and don't you dare misinterpret it as such. This post is for the countless people with psychosis I know who have had their dreams dismissed as delusion or simple fantasy by people in power. You don't have to "settle" for jack shit. It may be harder. It may be a long road ahead. But that doesn't make it impossible.)

[uncanny-tranny]

Harm reduction is important because people do not deserve to die or become gravely injured because of addiction, accidents, or improper care. The existence of harm reduction sights, free needle exchange sights, drug testing locations, and education is not endorcing the behaviour - it is making sure people do not die, contract bloodborne illnesses, or otherwise be put at risk. These are human beings we are talking about, addiction or no.