Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Background
7. OPSEU Acquires the Right to Strike 17
8. The World Changes for Ontario 29
9. The World Changes for Civil Servants 41
10. The Strike Emerges
11. Opposition to the Harris Government 53
12. Collective Bargaining until the Strike 63
13. OPSEU Builds for the Strike 83
14. OPSEU on Strike
15. OPSEU Goes on Strike 107
16. The Politics of Picketing 117
17. The Picket Line Community 137
18. The Wider Community 161
19. Essential Services: A Limited Strike 170
20. Legal Issues 180
21. Collective Bargaining during the Strike 189
22. The Strike Ends 201
23. Appendices
24. The Strike Vocabulary 211
25. A Week-by-Week Chronology of the Strike 213
26. OPSEU Strike: Financial Statistics 221
27. Results of the Three OPSEU Polls of the Membership 222
28. List of People Interviewed 225
29. Notes 231
30. Bibliography 241
31. Index 245