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After years of under funding in Ontario’s post-secondary education sector, the public is growing anxious. A recent IPSOS-Reid poll commissioned by the Canadian Union of Public Employees and other members of the Ontario-based Post-secondary Education Coalition shows that 70 per cent of Ontario parents are concerned (43 per cent very concerned) that their children may not be able to attend university or college, even if they are qualified and wish to do so. For the vast majority (79%) of parents, cost is the over-riding factor as to why they are concerned. Two thirds (64%) of Ontario parents would rather the government increase provincial government funding for universities and colleges, even though this may result in a cancellation of planned tax cuts or reduced government spending in other areas. These findings came on the heels of an Ipsos-Reid poll showing that education ranks as the second most important issue on the public agenda, only 1% behind the health care issue (CUPE 2001a). As public anxiety over access to education increases, public-sector workers are directly able to perceive the extent to which exclusion, rather than publicaccess, now characterizes postsecondary education in an era of privatization. This paper will address some of the recent experiences of university workers who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Here we identify three issues facing university workers: (i) the privatization of the university sector through government policy shifts; (ii) the employer-led reorganization of work; and (iii) university workers’ campaigns to resist and transform these conditions. For public sector workers, decreasing access to social programs, under funding and the intensification of work are very clearly linked. Each is part of a privatization dynamic through which the restructured state brings public services more fully into the market and increasingly the direct control of a global capitalist class, eroding democratic rights as a consequence. Still, this dynamic is not uni-directional. Public sector workers and their community allies have been part of the history of state restructuring given their conscious acts of resistance, collective bargaining strategies, militancy and coalition-building.

Public Exclusion, Under Funding and the Intensification of Work: Universities and the Erosion of Democracy in Ontario