It’s sexist wage discrimination. And Canada’s record is a global embarrassment. At least it should be a source of great shame. This is the third consecutive column I have written about the gender [...]
About 200 people from across southern Ontario, and as far north as Sudbury and North Bay gathered in Toronto on March 31-April 1 for a provincial strategy session of the Fight for $15 and [...]
It was a human experiment on an unprecedented scale. Its target: 10,000 Ontario miners. Its tool: a mysterious black powder they were forced to inhale in a sealed room before plunging underground [...]
Precarious workers should not have to wait until after the next election to see changes implemented. The maxim “Justice delayed is justice denied” is applicable to this issue. In the words of the [...]
Unionized workers at the Canadian Hearing Society have been out on the picket line now for just over a month. The battle is not about wages and benefits, but about the organization’s *raison [...]
Earlier this month, Saskatchewan became the latest province to introduce legislation to guarantee paid and unpaid leave to employees who experience domestic violence. Read more.
By March 2018, every person working at Osgoode Hall Law School will be making $15 an hour or more. That makes Osgoode the first major post-secondary academic unit in Ontario to bring its [...]
Striking workers at the Canadian Hearing Society (CHS) are taking to the airwaves with a new radio ad in Toronto. The ad, which can be heard here, urges the employer back to the table to resolve [...]
Budget 2017 was an opportunity for the federal government to make significant and immediate strides on Canadians’ priorities like child care, health care, and pay equity. Instead, the Trudeau [...]
Employees at the Canadian Hearing Society, many of whom are deaf themselves, say their essential needs are not being met on the job — pushing them, for the past two weeks, onto the picket line [...]
