Estina Sebastien-Geetan, a leader at the Workers’ Action Centre, gave an inspiring speech to over 1,000 delegates at the Ontario Federation of Labour Convention! Estina urged the labour movement to join our Stop Wage Theft campaign and to build solidarity across our struggles for fairness at work. Here is some of Estina’s speech: “We need… contine reading
Archives for November 2011
Service Canada Office Closures causing serious delays for workers accessing EI
Accessing services is going to get a lot more difficult for workers needing EI. The Federal Government has announced a merger of Service Canada Centres from 120 to just 22 operating across the country over the next 3 years. There will be now only 6 processing centres in Ontario! The sites will be Richmond Hill… contine reading
Lillia stands up against wage theft and receives $2300 in unpaid wages!
Lilia had to fight for over a year, but she finally won her fight to be paid the minimum wage and be treated as an employee. When Lilia started working at a downtown cleaning company, she was told she had to start her own company to be paid. For many months, Lilia worked as an… contine reading