… Health & Safety for Women - PHSW Share All workers face health and safety … In this course, participants will discuss and learn about how women’s health (including reproductive health) is … principles (hazard control, precautionary principles, right to refuse, right to know, and the right to …
… Health & Safety for Federal Workers - AHSF1 Share Unifor members who work in … provisions known as Part II of the Code. Participants see how to effectively use the Internal Complaint Resolution Process and the Right to Refuse to identify and eliminate hazards and try …
… Workplace medical review panels under attack in Alberta … tampering with joint health and safety committees and the right to refuse unsafe work , Kenney’s bill proposes to … their own health and safety.” The new factsheet describes how Bill 47 dismantles medical review panels in favour of a …
… Health & Safety for Provincial Worker - AHSP1 Share This 1-day program is for … This program gives participants practical, useful advice on how to make the most of joint union-management health and … how to take up a worker’s complaint, why we must defend the right to refuse hazardous work, and more. Program Duration …
… Unifor comment and recommendations on government plans to … it is imperative that the province get its restart plans right the first time. Our economy is in as fragile as state … to workers on the rights they have under the law and how to assert them during COVID-19. Government must provide …
… Minister of Labour, Training and Skills Development 14th Floor, 400 University Avenue Toronto, ON M7A 1T7 Dear … and health of our members during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are occasions when they need the assistance … of this province. An Inspector’s job is to protect the rights of all workers including front line workers. An …
… Vigil held for COVID heroes January 22, 2021 Share Main Image Image … lessons learned during the pandemic. “We must never forget how quickly essential workers went from heroes to having … three key demands to keep workers safe: paid sick days, the right to know about hazards in the workplace and to refuse …
… Fighting for good retail jobs is long overdue November 6, 2020 Share … at hundreds of thousands of front-line retail workers, right now toiling for substandard pay. Loblaw’s constant … by. All of this begs the question: what is to be done? How do Canada’s retail workers turn the tide? Frankly, it is …
… Registered Practical Nurses fighting for fair compensation January 20, 2022 Share Main Image Image … emergency orders that override their collective agreement rights, including scheduling and time off, as well as … their stories about what their role is in the workplace, how they contribute to good outcomes for patients and how …
… Global working-class resistance resonates across borders on May Day … dangers workers face in attempting to exercise their basic rights. The recent murder of Alex Dolorosa, a call centre … away at the union movement's hard-fought victories. We saw how quickly the labour movement in Canada united and …
… Unifor demands pandemic pay and vaccine access for grocery … the country,” said Unifor National President Jerry Dias. “How in good conscience can billionaire Galen Weston and the … The union advocates for all working people and their rights, fights for equality and social justice in Canada and …
… running, day in and day out,” says Linda MacNeil, Unifor Atlantic Regional Director. “What we’re seeing at two … to be frustrated enough to want to fight back speaks to how they feel they are being treated by their employers.” … The union advocates for all working people and their rights, fights for equality and social justice in Canada and …
… Ontario must better protect workers from the crisis that lays ahead January 13, 2021 … flooded with messages from workers who are outraged and frightened at the seeming lack of tangible action offered. … of such violations, only one employer has been fined. How can workers put their trust, and their health in the …
… Canada about the dangers of populists who pretend to speak for working people, but serve the privileged. The statement, … sort of behaviour I have come to expect from Conservative, right-wing governments, whoever the leader might be. Not … the legislature with, I can hardly expect that he will be showing much respect for working people he has never met. It …
… Union-busting employer rewarded for bad behaviour April 4, 2018 Share Main Image Image By … that this employer had other ideas. Ideas shaped in the right-to-work state of Kansas. Like most workers who join a … its union employees. This is the case with DJ Composites. How is that balanced? But there are no provisions in the …
… NS joint union statement on protection for health care workers March 13, 2020 Share Main Image Image … for the imminent arrival of COVID-19 in our province, and how we can best ensure the health and safety of the … you feel your safety is jeopardized, you may exercise your right to refuse under the Occupational Health and Safety Act …
… Bill 1 arbitration decision orders a collaborative bargaining structure January 19, 2015 … commitment to their union and refusal to give up their rights were clearly noticed." "Unifor is committed to … resolve many of the problems posed by the legislation. However, the status of Licensed Practical Nurses and which …
… Temporary Workers Speak Out on Discrimination March 29, 2017 … in Toronto. Members of the EDCC and the South Asian Women’s Rights Organisation (SAWRO) held an emotional and honest … some of the benefits of a union. Start with an email to see how starting a community chapter can help you. … “ I have …
… W Hotel Toronto delay will not affect unionized jobs June 17, 2020 … have already faced throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Unifor’s collective agreement provisions put in … as the ‘Green Choice;’ protections of workers’ fundamental rights to return to their jobs after lengthy renovations. …
… Image By Jerry Dias At the beginning of the pandemic, Unifor made two broad demands of government. The first was to … put in the work now to make it happen. COVID-19 proved just how important personal care work in long-term care homes and … country rebuilds in a more equitable and sustainable way. Right from the first month of the pandemic, Unifor has been …
… Health care workers plan rally in front of Chatham LTC home June 28, 2022 … Image CHATHAM – Health care workers are taking their issues right to Chatham, Ont.’s Riverview Gardens after they say … said Jeff McFadden, President of Local 127. “That just shows how low the morale of our workers are. They deserve …
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