Workers across Ontario worked hard to win a minimum wage increase, paid sick days, emergency leave for all, more vacation time, equal pay for equal work and fairer scheduling. Starting… contine reading
Updates
We organized, we won, now we enforce
Congratulations are in order now that Bill 148, The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act passed into law on Monday, November 27! Your ongoing support has been pivotal in this victory.… contine reading
Thank you for celebrating our strong leaders!
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… contine reading
Celebrate workers who speak up for change
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… contine reading
Celebrate leaders defending workers’ rights
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… contine reading
Join us in celebrating the brave workers in our movement
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… contine reading
Premier Wynne: It is time to ensure fairness!
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’… contine reading
Workers still stuck in Temp Nation
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… contine reading
Restaurant workers stand up for fairness
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… contine reading
What’s at stake with Ontario’s labour laws
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… contine reading









