(TORONTO) -- “The implementation of full day kindergarten in Ontario schools is really welcome news,” says Wayne Samuelson, president of the Ontario Federation of Labour. “This program represents a truly important piece of the childcare puzzle.”

(TORONTO) -- Unions and workers are calling on both the provincial and federal governments to honour their promises to laid-off workers who have applied for training and upgrading under Ontario’s Second Career Program.

(TORONTO) -- Today at noon, at Queen’s Park, workers from around the province will come together at a rally in support of an NDP private members bill which would ban the use of scab labour during strike or lockout situations.

(TORONTO) -- Today, young worker representatives from labour groups demanded that Canada’s federal, provincial and territorial labour ministers immediately take action to ratify the International Labour Organization’s Convention 138 on Minimum Age – the international standard dealing with the use of children in production or services.