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(TORONTO) -- Dear Minister Bentley:
As the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour, representing over one million workers in Ontario, I am requesting that you launch a criminal investigation into the deaths of four migrant workers who fell to their deaths on Christmas Eve in Toronto. A fifth worker is in intensive care with two fractured legs and a broken spine.
(TORONTO) -- Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan is calling on Ontario’s Attorney General to investigate the tragic deaths of four migrant workers who fell to their death on Christmas Eve in Toronto when a scaffold they were working on broke apart. While the Ministry of Labour is looking into the health and safety circumstances around the accident, Ryan says that an investigation is warranted to determine if criminal negligence is a factor in these deaths.
(TORONTO) -- Released today, the OFL video, Climb the Hill: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace calls for an end to one of the most challenging problems in workplaces
(TORONTO) -- Today’s report from the Auditor General of Ontario makes clear the cause of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board’s (WSIB) unfunded liability, and it certainly isn’t overly generous benefits for injured workers, says Ontario Federation of Labour president-elect Sid Ryan.
(TORONTO) -- “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” These are the first words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948.
(TORONTO) -- December 6, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique Massacre, in which 14 women were singled because they were women and murdered. The École Polytechnique was not only a college, but also a workplace. Two of the women murdered that day were members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). This senseless act of violence against women shocked our nation and became the catalyst for collective action to end violence against women
(TORONTO) -- The International Day of Persons with Disabilities was proclaimed in 1992 by the United Nations to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the World Programme of Action adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1982.
