4,000 Ontario social and community service workers strike over workloads, wages, and funding cuts
By
Ricardo Tranjan, Katherine Scott
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Summary
4,000 Ontario Public Sector Union (OPSEU) workers in social services, Children's Aid societies, community health clinics, and developmental services are on strike across 24 picket lines. The strike is driven by increased workloads, worsening working conditions, and wage suppression, exacerbated by global factors like higher oil prices and U.S. trade tariffs, as well as provincial policy choices that have reduced funding and increased pressure on social services.
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Workload has increased in response to international factors and policy choices
In addition to global and macroeconomic factors making life harder—like higher oil prices and U.S. trade tariffs—many provincial policies have created pressure on social
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