Chris Chandler
@chandler4unions.bsky.social
Vice-President of the Toronto Teachers' Bargaining Unit of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation.
@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
March 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
@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
February 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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
February 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
@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
Getting some final pointers from the amazing Blair about how to help colleagues find their advance polling station.
Find yours here: elections.on.ca/en.html
#onted #osstf #yrdsb
Find yours here: elections.on.ca/en.html
#onted #osstf #yrdsb
February 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I think that Trump ought to give this suggestion some thought. #cdnpoli #donaldtrump #fournationsfaceoff
February 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I think that Trump ought to give this suggestion some thought. #cdnpoli #donaldtrump #fournationsfaceoff
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CANADA: Flight attendants are pushing for fair ground pay amid union negotiations theconversation.com/canadian-fli...
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.
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February 20, 2025 at 11:33 AM
CANADA: Flight attendants are pushing for fair ground pay amid union negotiations theconversation.com/canadian-fli...
New from @policyalternatives.ca: There was a conspicuous absence at this week's #Ontario leaders' debate—the subject of provincial finances. By @ricardotranjan.bsky.social @rromard.bsky.social #onpoli #election
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In the Ontario election, we’re not talking about money—which the province urgently needs - CCPA
With the Ontario election well underway, we should be having a debate about how to pay for the things the province urgently needs.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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
February 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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
February 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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
#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
This morning, CUPE Local 79 members delivered 8,000+ petitions to Councillor Shelley Carroll at the final Budget Committee meeting.
Workers are calling for fair, inflation-adjusted wages, safe staffing levels & equity for part-time workers.
Workers are calling for fair, inflation-adjusted wages, safe staffing levels & equity for part-time workers.
February 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
#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
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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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
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February 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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
February 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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
February 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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
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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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”
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January 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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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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
January 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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
January 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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.
The Trump administration has fired US Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, the Department of Homeland Security said reut.rs/42kHuZV
Trump removes US Coast Guard chief, official cites DEI focus
The Trump administration has fired U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch, the Department of Homeland Security said on Tuesday.
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January 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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
USA: These are the US states seeing a union membership surge www.nationalworld.com/business/the...
These are the US states seeing a union membership surge
A new study has revealed the states with the largest increases and decreases in union members between 2013 and 2023.
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January 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Good news. #unionstrong #osstf
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
December 6, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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
I stand with postal workers. Their strike is about whether CUPW members deserve a decent living, in a stable job, with good benefits. Well, they do. Like all workers do. Let's support them so that the income inequality plaguing our society can end, one group of workers at a time. #osstf #solidarity
November 23, 2024 at 3:58 PM
I stand with postal workers. Their strike is about whether CUPW members deserve a decent living, in a stable job, with good benefits. Well, they do. Like all workers do. Let's support them so that the income inequality plaguing our society can end, one group of workers at a time. #osstf #solidarity
Music education matters. What a treat to hear the Royal Conservatory Orchestra perform at Koerner Hall. Kudos to the 219 OSSTF District 34 instructors whose work at the Glenn Gould School builds a richer more beautiful world. Thanks to D34 President Stanley Rosenzweig. #osstf #musiceducation
November 23, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Music education matters. What a treat to hear the Royal Conservatory Orchestra perform at Koerner Hall. Kudos to the 219 OSSTF District 34 instructors whose work at the Glenn Gould School builds a richer more beautiful world. Thanks to D34 President Stanley Rosenzweig. #osstf #musiceducation
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EUROPE: EU lawmakers agree with union demands on scrutiny of working conditions at Amazon warehouses uniglobalunion.org/news/eu-lawm...
EU lawmakers agree with union demands on scrutiny of working conditions at Amazon warehouses
BRUSSELS, 21 November – European Union lawmakers have reached an agreement on scrutiny of working conditions at Amazon warehouses in line with demands by European trade unions earlier this week. Under...
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November 23, 2024 at 2:56 PM
EUROPE: EU lawmakers agree with union demands on scrutiny of working conditions at Amazon warehouses uniglobalunion.org/news/eu-lawm...
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A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.
November 23, 2024 at 2:44 PM
A government run by billionaires will never be for the people.