The Caregivers’ Action Centre is an organization of current and former caregivers under the Live-in Caregiver Program/Caregiver Program. Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) plays a lead ally role to support…
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Migrant Workers – Alliance for Change (MWAC)
This coalition brings together No One is Illegal, Justicia for Migrant Farmworkers, UFCW, UNIFOR, WAC, Parkdale Community Legal Services, Caregivers’ Action Centre, and other caregiver groups to organize to improve…
Continue ReadingEnforcement of Bill 148
Although we have been successful in achieving gains, winning new labour rights is only half the battle. There needs to be a continued front of organizing to ensure that workers…
Continue ReadingChanging Workplaces Review (CWR): Ministry of Labour Review of the ESA/OLRA
Over the past two years, the provincial government reviewed the Employment Standards Act and the Ontario Labour Relations Act through the lens of precarious work. An interim report of the…
Continue Reading$15 and Fairness Campaign
Ontario workers are struggling to get by. More and more decent jobs are being replaced by low-wage and precarious work. The minimum wage was frozen at $10.25 for four years,…
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