Child care operators, educators and parents distance themselves from group of for-profit child care owners’ campaign against $10-a-day child care

Child Care, Solidarity

TORONTO – Ontario child care organizations, educators and families are speaking out against a group of for-profit child care owners who are staging rolling closures in the province. “It’s clear that there is growing backlash in the Ontario child care community against the tactics of this Alberta-backed group of for-profit child care owners this week,”…

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Raise the Rates Coalition brings demands to increase social assistance rates to Queen’s Park as more Ontarians legislated into poverty

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TORONTO – It’s not often easy to put a dollar amount on the government’s failure to care for Ontarians, but the roughly one million people in this province who rely on social assistance know the exact figure they need. Individuals supported by Ontario Works (OW) are shy of the poverty line by $1,569 every month;…

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Community health workers rally to combat severe underfunding and understaffing at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre

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TORONTO – Today community health care workers at the South Riverdale Community Health Centre (SRCHC) will rally to demand that their employer address the severe underfunding and understaffing crisis at the centre. After more than eight months at the bargaining table, SRCHC management still refuses to offer members of CUPE Local 5399 a real wage…

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Abrupt closure of Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity in the runup to National Coming Out Day a painful loss for the queer community and an affront to workers

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OTTAWA – For 19 years, the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity (CCGSD) helped queer and trans youth find themselves, a sense of community, and safety. With the organization’s sudden bankruptcy announcement, that support is gone, passionate workers have been laid off, and queer and trans youth are left with one less advocate and…

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“This is why we are retiring in poverty:” Health care workers slam SickKids for choosing not to pay into pension plan for 26th year

OCHU, Solidarity

Toronto, ON – Health-care workers at SickKids Hospital in Toronto are outraged by their employer’s recent announcement that it will continue its “pension holiday” rather than improve retirement benefits for its staff. Last week, SickKids announced that it will not be paying into the staff pension plan for yet another year – it has only…

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