Workers at National Steel Car (NSC) in Hamilton, Ontario, represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7135, went on strike on Thursday, June 29. The 1,450 striking workers are calling for safer working conditions, an increase to wages, and a cost of living adjustment as inflation remains high.
In the 1970s, women continued to enter the labour force in rising numbers and many of these women became union members for the first time….
“I was told by one daycare facility today that parents are waiting over 2 years for spaces. I was told by several daycare facilities in…
By removing profit caps and setting more money aside for for-profit childcare operators Doug Ford is undermining $10-per-day childcare. Ford is looking out for the interests of businesses who want to use public money without guaranteeing children quality care and decent wages for childcare workers.
Ontarians have been waiting with baited breath for more than a year for Ford to finally sign off on a deal with the federal government…
Bill 124 must be challenged, and not just in the courts. If it is allowed to stand, Ford will continue to illegally infringe on public sector workers’ rights to collectively bargain, which disproportionately impacts women workers.
4,000 people have died in Ontario’s long-term care homes during the pandemic so far, often in conditions so deplorable that the Canadian Armed Forces suggested…
Only by making childcare a public good can we ensure women’s ability to equally participate in public life, give every child the right to access…
The revelations of the close collaboration between the big business lobby and Ford are not an exception, but a rule. They are a product of a system that sees the interests of the state and the interests of the capitalist economy as one in the same.
With the provincial government’s invocation of the notwithstanding clause to overturn a court decision that ruled Bill 254 as unconstitutional, it seems that Ontario Premier…
