TORONTO, Oct. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Over 50 actions are expected on Monday, October 15, when communities across Ontario mobilize in defense of new workers’ rights brought in by Bill 148: Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, including the $15 minimum wage that is scheduled for January 1. What stands to be the largest coordinated…
Premier Doug Ford told the legislature today that he would scrap paid sick days, as provided in the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, known as Bill 148. Paid sick days and the other reforms in the Act from the legislated increase in the minimum wage to $15 to unpaid personal emergency leave and regulations that…
The Ontario Federation of Labour welcomes the elements of the USMCA which provide improvements for Canadian workers, notably in the auto sector, but fears for workers in industries left without much-needed economic protection by the agreement. “There are significant gaps in this agreement that will hurt workers in a number of sectors including steel and…
(TORONTO, ON) – Representatives from the $15 and Fairness movement, including Ontario’s Fight for $15 & Fairness, the Ontario Federation of Labour, a doctor, and an Imam from a Mosque in Etobicoke held a press conference at Queen’s Park today to call on the government to protect the $15 minimum wage and fair scheduling rules…
(TORONTO, ON) – Leaders of the $15 and Fairness movement, including the Fight for $15 and Fairness and the Ontario Federation of Labour, will be speaking at a press conference on Friday September 28, 2018 at 9:30 am in the Queen’s Park media studio. With mere weeks to go before 1.7 million Ontario workers get…
(TORONTO, ON) – Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) announced today at its annual general meeting in Toronto, that it has eliminated its unfunded liability ahead of schedule and is introducing an across-the-board average premium reduction to employers of 29.8%. News of the rate reduction for employers comes after the WSIB has already cut…
(TORONTO, ON)– Today’s line-by-line audit points to austerity measures on the way, including service cuts and privatization, says the Ontario Federation of Labour. In his address, Treasury Board President Peter Bethlenfalvy spoke about increased digitization and job change across the public service, the sale of public assets, and means testing for Ontarians accessing services and…
(TORONTO, ON) – Ontarians will only suffer if Campbell’s commission of inquiry leads to cuts in – and the privatization of – public services including in health, education, and child care. Although the commission’s report does not recommend cuts to services, Finance Minister Vic Fedeli said today that Ontario is facing a $15-billion deficit that…
(TORONTO, ON) ─ By calling back the legislature in order to use the notwithstanding clause to force through the reduction of Toronto City Council, Doug Ford is undermining the courts and democracy for Toronto’s municipalities, and showing his disrespect for Ontario’s laws and Ontarians themselves. The court decision quashing Doug Ford’s plan to cut the…
(TORONTO, ON)– This Labour Day workers are coming together to protect the improvements that they won when Ontario updated its labour laws. In that update, workers won changes that improve working conditions across Ontario, including making it easier to join a union, providing two paid sick days, fairer scheduling laws, and a January 1, 2019…
This Labour Day, Ontario Federation of Secretary-Treasurer Patty Coates will be speaking in Thunder Bay. Ontario workers fought for and won long overdue improvements to Ontario’s labour and employment laws including paid sick days, fairer scheduling and equal pay for equal work provisions. Other victories included protections for workers engaged in a labour dispute, making…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 31, 2018 OFL President Chris Buckley to speak on Labour Day (TORONTO, ON) – This Labour Day, Ontario Federation of Labour President Chris Buckley will be speaking at a media event at the statue of Adam Beck at 8:45 a.m. “This Labour Day, we are sending a clear message to Doug…
The Ontario Federation of Labour is dismayed by the Ontario Government setting up a phone line with the express purpose of monitoring teachers providing instruction in the health and physical education curriculum for the 2018-2019 school year. “This phone line carries an implied threat to all education workers and shows the disrespect our government has…
Together, we made significant strides to raise the standard of work across the province. After 20 years of woefully outdated labour and employment laws, the Government of Ontario introduced the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act in 2017. This was a result of many hard-fought struggles and the collective voice of millions demanding immediate action to modernize the Employment Standards Act and…
The Ontario Federation of Labour mourns the passing of unionist, community organizer and activist Bromley Lloyd Armstrong. A member of the CAW, Armstrong was a leader in the Toronto Joint Committee on Human Rights in the 1950’s and fought racism his whole life. “Brother Armstrong’s contribution to anti-discrimination campaigns in Ontario have made our province…
Job Posting: Administrative Support/Reception The Ontario Federation of Labour is an equal opportunity employer. As such, it encourages those who have been historically disadvantaged with respect to employment to apply. Indigenous persons, persons of colour, persons with a disability, and persons who are gay, lesbian, two spirited and transgendered are encouraged to self-identify in the…