The winning of a $15 minimum wage is the product of years of organizing. This shows how we can win reforms by campaigning, even under right wing governments. But we will need to redouble our organizing efforts to win the stronger employment standards and higher wages that Ontario workers desperately need in our post-pandemic world.
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…
Ford’s recent announcement is not a win: it is a temporary concession used to stave off permanent and employer-paid sick days. The movement has shifted the needle on paid sick days, but it has much further to go to win paid sick days for all.
The push back sprang from below, after years of movements fighting for racial and economic justice. People want paid sick days, not policing.
In January 2020, four of Ontario’s major teachers and education workers unions took job action against Ford’s government’s cuts to public education. The strikes gained…
The vote on Bill 239 reflected the current balance of forces in Ontario, where after years of campaigning the Ontario Conservatives are now isolated in their opposition to paid sick days.
The Ford government recently made permanent a pandemic measure to allow bars and restaurants to sell takeout alcohol in Ontario. This act was approved in…
You are a teacher, and a student in your already crowded class starts coughing at their desk so loudly that it’s causing a disruption. What…
The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen unemployment rates skyrocket and businesses close across Ontario. In response, the government has gone out of its way to…
On February 28 and 29, the Fight for $15 and Fairness held its annual provincial strategy meeting. Seven years after the launch of the Campaign…
As the Ontario Progressive Conservatives gathered in Niagara Falls for their party policy convention on Saturday, Feb 21 they were greeted by thousands of trade…
On Friday, February 21, for the first time in over 20 years, all four of Ontario’s education unions will be walking out in protest to…
