Women Workers

Studies show that the majority of working women will experience some form of sexual harassment throughout their working lives; however the harassment experienced in the workplace is not solely limited to sexual harassment. Harassment on the basis of race, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity/expression and various other forms of personal harassment, compounded with harassment due to gender can make the workplace, and indeed society, dangerous and even lethal for many vulnerable workers.

Dear Sisters and Brothers, Your support is crucial in helping the striking Human Services members...

Help spread the word and support CUPE 966 (Ontario Works staff) to get a fair contract from the Region of Peel. The members of CUPE 966 Human Services Unit are on strike against an employer that is going after their wages and sick leave. This is a local made up predominantly of women and workers of colour, who provide essential community services for the most vulnerable and marginalized in our society. They work in family and youth homeless shelters, provide employment assistance and training, process social assistant cheques, operate child care centres, help victims of violence, place people in subsidized housing, provide immigrant settlement services, and much, much more.

From March 30 to April 1, the OFL hosted its first-ever Equity Retreat at the...

A quick response from parents, the Brampton-Mississauga and District Labour Council, the Ontario Coalition for...