On March 5th, 2018, thousands of teaching assistants, contract faculty, and graduate assistants walked off the job and started what would become the longest post-secondary strike in Canadian history. For 143 days, members of CUPE 3903 faced down the York University administration, only to be unjustly legislated back to work by a newly elected right-wing provincial government. This panel will explore the neoliberal context within which the strike took place, models of organizing that proved in/effective, and lessons for future strikes and the labour movement more generally.
