… 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 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 …
… This is a vital moment for workers’ rights, Payne tell summit August 21, 2020 Share Main Image … power to shape what comes next, we have to ask ourselves: how will we use it? These past few months, we have refused …
… 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 …
… 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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