At this moment fighting for employer-paid sick days for all is an opportunity for the union movement to raise standards for all workers while also exposing the Tories and the bosses’ cruel agenda. There is much to gain for unions and little to lose.
Doug Ford’s COVID-19 strategy is in shambles and the government is in crisis. Now is the time to step up the fight for legislated paid sick days for all.
The existing inequities and inequalities heading into the crisis, that were already driving a wave of mass movements, have been supercharged.
We need both larger movements to fight for reforms and bigger socialist organizations that can navigate the twist turns of the struggles ahead.
If workers in Canada are ever going to get win in a wealth tax, let alone challenge the entrenched interests of billionaires it is going to be because the organized power of the working class won’t accept anything else.
We are 10 months into the pandemic and case counts across the country are rising rapidly, yet provincial and federal governments have been unwilling to deliver paid sick days.
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