Demise of PSW registry gives province opportunity to get it right and end exploitation of racialized, female workforce

Toronto, ON – Now that the “ill-conceived” registry for personal support workers (PSWs) has been scrapped, the 20,000 PSWs represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Ontario in long-term care, hospitals and community care are asking for the issue of regulation for PSWs to be made a priority. Educational requirements and occupational demands…

Stephen Lewis on unions and social justice

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2B9YOPO6GvI%3Fhl%3Den-ca%26rel%3D0%26autohide%3D1%26showinfo%3D0 A riveting keynote address at the CUPE Ontario Secretary-Treasurers Conference by Stephen Lewis, co-director and co-founder of AIDS-Free World. In it, he speaks of the role AIDS-Free World played in exposing child sexual abuse at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers, the foundation’s work to end child marriage and abuse, and the important role unions…