WHAT YOU CAN DO


Make sure your friends and neighbours know about the new Minimum Wage rates as of March 31, 2010.

VICTORIES


Breaking the Freeze! - From 1995 to 2004 (nine years!) the Ontario minimum wage rate was frozen at $6.85/hour. Ongoing pressure by WAC members, the trade union movement and anti-poverty/community activists broke the freeze and resulted in stepped annual increases in the minimum wage up to $10.25 in 2010!

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A Fair Minimum Wage


Workers action centre protection for temporary foriegn works and live in care givers

Poverty is on the rise and low wages are a big reason why. No one should work full time and yet still live in poverty.

Even with the $10.25/hour minimum wage rate as of March 31, 2010, workers are still earning about $1,500 per year below the poverty line. Although the gap is getting smaller, there is no commitment from the Ontario government to further increases.

We need the Ontario government to raise the minimum wage rate now to at least the Ontario poverty line ($11.00/hour) - and make a commitment to annual cost of living increases so that workers are not continually having to fight for this basic dignity.

 

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WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW



The WAC Organizing Committees are working with our community allies to increase public pressure on the government to make a commitment to a fair minimum wage. Watch for events and actions leading up to 2011.

WAC RESOURCES


Working on the Edge (May 2007) – This WAC research report documents workers’ experiences of precarious work (temp, contract, self-employed), and also contains recommendations on changes to minimum wage.

Working, Yet Poor in Ontario: A Call for Fair Wages and Working Conditions, and Government Action (March 2006)

workers actions centre campaign for a fair minimum wage