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THE FIGHT FOR $15 AND FAIRNESS AFTER BILL 47
By Jesse McLaren
Bill 47 is a major attack on workers across Ontario. It freezes the minimum wage for 33 months (amounting to a pay cut), eliminates two paid sick days and reduces the number of unpaid sick days from a possible 8 to 3, it revokes equal pay for part-time, contract and temp workers, and cancels the fairer scheduling provisions that were set to take effect on January 1, 2019. This will disproportionately affect those most concentrated in low paying and precarious jobs: Indigenous, migrant and racialized workers, especially women.
This will also renew a series of debates. After Bill 47 should we move on to other campaigns, ditch $15 and Fairness demands or strategies for something more “radical”, or put our faith in the NDP the next election? Read more!
LESSONS FROM RESTAURANT ORGANIZING, PATRICK MCGUIRE, WINNIPEG IWW | CO-OP STRIKE
Today on the show – Patrick McGuire, an organizer with the Winnipeg I.W.W. talks restaurant organizing – and a failed attempt to unionize local Winnipeg restaurant Stellas in 2002. The I.W.W. was compelled to share their story, after former Stellas employees recently came forward with allegations of harassment and abuse from upper management. Read more!
WHAT POSTAL WORKERS ARE FIGHTING FOR
By Chloe Rockarts
November 14, 2018 marks 1 year since the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began negotiations with Canada Post Corporation. Across the country, postal workers are entering their second month of rotating strikes. Thousands of workers are striking over health and safety issues, exhaustive and unsustainable workload issues, and inequities between urban and rural mail carriers. Read more!
IS THIS THE BEST THEY CAN DO? THE WEAK CASE AGAINST $14 IN ONTARIO
By Michal Rozworski
On November 20, the libertarian Montreal Economic Institute think tank released a short report claiming that Ontario’s $14 minimum wage is costing thousands of young workers their jobs and raising prices for everyone else. These overblown claims, based on skewed and cherry-picked data, came out—purely coincidentally to be sure—the day before Doug Ford’s Conservatives originally planned to pass Bill 47, Read more!
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