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Celebrating Leaders _ Marjorie

Thank you for celebrating our strong leaders!

November 7, 2017

On Saturday, November 4, the annual Workers’ Bowl fundraiser went off without a hitch. It was a wonderful event filled with many wonderful friends and allies in our movement for decent work. Thank you for your enthusiastic support of leadership education, training programs and internships at the Workers’ Action Centre. If you didn’t get the… contine reading

Celebrating Leaders in Our Movement. Workers' Action Centre member David does outreach in the Tamil community in Scarborough, and uses media platforms to spread workers' rights info far and wide.... Support workers' rights, make a donation today. WorkersBowl.ca

Celebrate workers who speak up for change

November 2, 2017

Committee hearings on Bill 148, The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, are taking place this week. Today is the last chance for workers to have our say about Bill 148. We are pushing to make sure Bill 148 is as strong as it can be! While the Workers’ Action Centre and our allies work to raise the… contine reading

Celebrating leaders in our movement. Winnie and Julie are Workers' Action Centre members sharing workers' rights information with the Chinese community in the GTA. Support workers' rights, make a donation today. WorkersBowl.ca

Celebrate leaders defending workers’ rights

October 26, 2017

The 6th annual fundraiser of the Ontario Employment Education & Research Centre (OEERC), in partnership with the Workers’ Action Centre, is only ten days away! Funds raised through the Workers’ Bowl will help WAC provide workers’ rights workshops in different languages across the Greater Toronto Area, as well as leadership education. In celebration of our movement… contine reading

Angel Reyes spoke up for his rights. Support workers' rights, make a donation today. WorkersBowl.ca

Join us in celebrating the brave workers in our movement

October 20, 2017

The Ontario Employment Education & Research Centre (OEERC), in partnership with the Workers’ Action Centre, will host its 6th annual fundraiser on Saturday, November 4. With the money raised through the Workers’ Bowl, WAC is able to provide workers’ rights workshops in different languages across the Greater Toronto Area, as well as leadership education for… contine reading

Fix equal pay and scheduling, pass Bill 148 poster

Premier Wynne: It is time to ensure fairness!

October 5, 2017

October 1 marked the 4th year that the Ontario minimum wage has been indexed to inflation. The minimum wage increased by 20¢, going from $11.40 to $11.60 an hour. The Workers’ Action Centre and our allies won this annual indexation in June 2014, along with a 75¢ increase in the minimum wage at that time. But… contine reading

Sara Mojtehedzadeh undercover at Fiera Foods

Workers still stuck in Temp Nation

September 26, 2017

A recent Toronto Star exposé about the ordeals of temp workers gained a lot of attention in the media this month. Reporter Sara Mojtehedzadeh went undercover at Fiera Foods, a commercial bakery in Toronto that hires exclusively through a temporary agency. Three temp workers have died at Fiera Foods or its associated facilities since 1999.… contine reading

Restaurant workers stand up for fairness

September 11, 2017

Workers have been fed up with unfair and unsafe working conditions for decades. Now, with the hope of labour law reforms and minimum wage increases proposed in Bill 148, many in our communities are breathing sighs of relief. However, organizers at the Workers’ Action Centre and in the Fight for $15 and Fairness are reminding… contine reading

What’s at stake with Ontario’s labour laws

August 21, 2017

Our decent work movement is going strong as the Government Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs began a review of Bill 148: the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act today. Just yesterday, we read the Toronto Star’s editorial in support of a $15 minimum wage, which reflects the growing support for our demands to make workplaces decent. We also saw this… contine reading

Image of open letter from 53 economists supporting a $15 minimum wage

Let’s defend and strengthen Bill 148 – Submission deadline

July 4, 2017

After years of organizing, and most recently through the $15 & Fairness Campaign, we’ve succeeded in bringing important labour law changes to the table. Titled Bill 148 – Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, this proposed legislation aims to raise the minimum wage to $15, ensure equal pay for equal work for part-time, temporary and contract workers, introduce… contine reading

Front of Queen's Park building

Victory — a $15 minimum wage and more!

June 1, 2017

We believed that we would win, and now we are seeing workplace standards rising! The Ontario government just announced its plan to raise the minimum wage to $14 on January 1, 2018 and then to $15 on January 1, 2019. This overdue increase, along with some improvements to our labour laws, will be a direct… contine reading

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