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Fighting Back
From: Class Action
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In Fighting Back Hanson examines the movement towards and eventual amalgamation of both parties into one with the creation of the transformation of two unions to the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario in the late 1990’s. The shadow of the most militant display of teacher resistance in the history of the province, Ontario’s public elementary teachers moved to end the partitioning of their membership by gender. While the elementary teachers’ unions of the past had often appeared to be more preoccupied with their differences than they had been with achieving gains through collective bargaining, the new union held the potential of a more focused militancy.