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NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION BRINGS MASS SUPPORT TO TIM HORTON'S WORKERS
By Kevin Taghabon, Samantha Connolly, Bradley Hughes, Tom Leonard
On Friday, January 19 the Fight For $15 and Fairness and labour movement allies launched actions at 50 Tim Hortons locations from Vancouver to Halifax. The actions are part of a continued pushback against Tim Hortons bosses who have come out of the gate openly abusing workers over Ontario’s new minimum wage and labour laws. The focus of the messaging at the actions was positive and supportive, with ire aimed at employers alongside a full embrace of Tim Hortons workers. Those supporting Tims workers are opposed to the theft of paid breaks, health benefits and intimidation that has been rampant across franchise since Ontario raised the minimum wage to $14/hour on January 1. Read more!
EMPLOYMENT, THE MINIMUM WAGE WAGE AND ABLEISM
By Melissa Graham
I’m going to get right to the point here. An increased minimum wage is not harming disabled people. It is however doing a great job at highlighting the ableist and saneist bias that continues to exist within employment in Ontario and social services.
When Bill 148 was still being debate, there were some who used disabled people to make a shameful and disgusting argument against raising the minimum wage, because they felt that employers would not want to pay a disabled person $14 or $15 per hour. Read more!
BRAMPTON: THE MOST DANGEROUS PLACE TO WORK IN ONTARIO
By Nora Loreto
On April 9. 2015, Andy Sokhan texted Gordon Graham saying that he thought that the crane that he was operating was dangerous. Graham, a supervisor for the construction company Forma-Con told Sokhan that if it the crane could be dangerous to use, it should be shut down.
The crane was being used to pour concrete at a construction site for a new library and community centre in Brampton on the Gore Road. Read more!
AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR MOVEMENT
By John Cartwright, President of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council
On January 17, 2018 the Canadian labour movement was plunged into a crisis with the exit of Unifor from the Canadian Labour Congress and the launching of raids on bargaining units of UNITE HERE Local 75. This open letter is intended as an urgent call for leaders in our movement, at every level, to strive to find a solution to this potential rupture before it becomes irreparable. And to allow time to explore solutions before hardening differences. Read more!
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