No justice, no peace : the 1996 OPSEU strike against the Harris government in Ontario / David Rapaport.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapaport, David, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontario Public Service Employees Union.

Strikes and lockouts--Civil service--Ontario.

Strikes and lockouts.

Ontario--Politics and government--20th century.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

xii, 250 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In No Justice, No Peace David Rapaport uses detail, insights, and anecdotes from over 150 interviews - with picket line captains, local executives, union leadership, journalists, mediators, and union and management negotiators among others - to provide an insider's view of the strike and its political and economic contexts, often told in the strikers' own voices. Vice-president from 1991 to 1997 of OPSEU's huge Region 5, covering Toronto, Rapaport describes how the election of the Harris government and the early "Common Sense Revolution" cutbacks led to a large opposition movement, the labour/social justice coalition, the Days of Action, and the province-wide OPSEU strike. No Justice, No Peace traces the politics involved, from ideology and belief in free trade to the downsizing of public and private enterprises, from the restructuring and privatization of the public sector to collective bargaining between OPSEU and the Ontario Government, and, finally, to the strike vote and the picket line.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Background

OPSEU Acquires the Right to Strike

The World Changes for Ontario

The World Changes for Civil Servants

The Strike Emerges

Opposition to the Harris Government

Collective Bargaining until the Strike

OPSEU Builds for the Strike

OPSEU on Strike

OPSEU Goes on Strike

The Politics of Picketing

The Picket Line Community

The Wider Community

Essential Services: A Limited Strike

Legal Issues

Collective Bargaining during the Strike

The Strike Ends

Appendices

The Strike Vocabulary

A Week-by-Week Chronology of the Strike

OPSEU Strike: Financial Statistics

Results of the Three OPSEU Polls of the Membership

List of People Interviewed

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-243) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85813-0

9786612858130

0-7735-6790-9

OCLC:

741349720