Chris Chandler

@osstf.bsky.social's annual meeting is almost here. Given the challenges of a third Doug Ford majority, and in a time of economic uncertainty, our union stands at a crossroads. I am committed to providing the strong, transformative leadership needed to navigate these challenges. #OSSTF

Check out this shareable and clarifying chart, laying out the parties' education platforms. Produced by #osstf. #onpoli #onted #OntarioVotes2025

@labourcouncil.bsky.social, OSSTF Toronto, Elementary Teachers of Toronto, CUPE 4400 and @ontautism.bsky.social held a press conference today, attended by CBC, CP24 and other media. We covered inadequate funding, the lack of wrap-around supports for students and more staffing. #OSSTF #onpoli #onted

Nice work!

Nice work!

Great work here by OSSTF D16. #onpoli #osstf #onted

I think that Trump ought to give this suggestion some thought. #cdnpoli #donaldtrump #fournationsfaceoff

Canadian flight attendants are pushing for fair ground pay amid union negotiations The issue of unpaid ground time has been a long-standing concern for flight attendants in the Canadian flight industry.

CANADA: Flight attendants are pushing for fair ground pay amid union negotiations theconversation.com/canadian-fli...

Please read and share this. It's a piece of critical analysis. #OntarioElection2025 #onpoli #onlab

Coming to a province near you? Think Doug Ford would try such a thing, blaming Trump tariffs? Vote wisely, unless you think working people should bear the brunt of economic change alone, and that wage suppression by law is a good idea. #OSSTF #onpoli #onlab #OntarioElection2025

When it comes to fighting for tenants and against housing precarity, there's no stronger candiate for MPP than @faisalhassan.bsky.social. I was proud to canvas for him today in York South-Weston with @osstf.bsky.social, @oflabour.bsky.social, #oecta and #CUPE4400. #unionproud #OntarioElection2025

Hope all is well with everyone who was in the plane and working at YYZ.

#Solidarity with @cupelocal79.bsky.social. They're fighting to ensure that the City is not a minimum wage employer in one of the world's most expensive places to live. These workers provide the services we need to live with dignity every day. #unionproud #UnionStrong #TOpoli #onlab

The freakout about Canada’s ‘internal trade barriers’ is a corporate scam ⋆ The Breach Business lobbyists and right-wing think tanks are exploiting Trump’s threats to push their deregulation agenda

As we face looming trariff wars with the US, beware of domestic wolves in sheep's clothing. #onpoli #onlab #cdnpoli #CanLab

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Happy to be part of this book, where various authors describe the damage Doug Ford has done to Ontario. I wrote the chapter on public ed, but there are others on healthcare, the environment, and tenants rights, to name a few. Available online and in bookstores. DM me for a discount code. #onpoli

Yesterday @osstf.bsky.social and Toronto Public Library workers knocked on doors for Jill Andrew in Toronto-St. Paul's, as she fights for public education, public health care, and tenants' rights. #osstf #onpoli #ondp

Cheers, Stef.

2/2 If you're asking me whether I support more member engagement in bargaining as a necessary and imperative goal, yes, I'd agree.

1/2 Centrally, the Protective Services Committee and the Central Bargaining Advisory Work Groups contain OTs and ed workers. At the local level, the composition of Collective Bargaining Committees within Bargaining Units would be a matter of local constitutional requirements.

2/2 Insofar as it's something for the legislature (and not the unions) to abolish, I'd say we need to make it a lobbying point with provincial parties, to start, since making it an electoral issue would take some work.

1/2 I would agree that the SBCBA has not improved things for ed sector unions, insofar as it has structurally distanced members and locals from the bargaining of Central items that may be most important to them.

New Poll Finds Majority of Ontarians Reject Doug Ford’s Reason For Calling an Early Election Over six-in-ten Ontarians say Doug Ford’s Ontario PCs failed to accomplish goals from last election and “do not deserve to be re-elected”

It appears that 61% of Ontarians have decided not to listen to Doug Ford's hat, whatever the hat decides to proclaim on any given day. #onpoli #osstf #onted
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No, I haven't, though I've held elected positions at the local level for 10 years.

I'm excited to run for the position of OSSTF/FEESO Executive Officer. I will deepen our solidarity, internally and with our allies, so that we can be stronger together, and fight for public education. #osstf. Here's my website: chrischandler.ca

Public schools and public healthcare are partners in the same fight for a strong economy and a just society. OSSTF Toronto stands with the Ontario Nurses' Association in its demand for fair treatment, and for adequate staffing in our hospitals. With @harveybischof.bsky.social #osstf #onpoli

This is an outrage. Aside from the misogyny, more than a dozen cadets at the Coast Guard academy have filed sexual harassment complaints. This feels like more than the discriminatory firing of a woman. It looks like a Presidential pass on sexual assault in federal workplaces.

Good news. #unionstrong #osstf

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Nice work. He needed that win. Now tell me how you're how disappointed you are with Covington's performance. ;)

It's on us, the men, to make today about more than remembrance. The action is for us to take, the change is for us to make. Teach your boys well. In our families, and in our classrooms, and in our community spaces. #saytheirnames