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City Council speaks up for cleaners

MEDIA RELEASE April 12, 2012 City Council speaks up for cleaners, votes to review contracting out of cleaning services Toronto, ON – The Justice & Dignity for Cleaners campaign won an important victory at City Hall yesterday when Council voted 29-12 to prevent City Manager from awarding contracts for cleaning service without Council approval. The [...]

Fired Cleaners Demand Reinstatement and Respect at Rally in Toronto

Two dozen people rallied earlier today outside 8 King St. East in Toronto. They called on the building’s new cleaning contractor, Amphora Maintenance Services, to reinstate terminated employees and respect their wishes to have a voice at work. “With the previous cleaning company we won a small raise, better vacation pay and we were going [...]

Big On Green

Earth Hour Saturday March 31st, 2012 from 12pm to 10pm Green Business Marketplace and Green Workplace Symposium followed by a pedal-powered Concert in the Park PDF poster | www.bigongreen.ca

Cleaners appeal to City Councillors not to contract out their jobs

This video was submitted to City Hall by the City’s cleaners.

Consequences of outsourcing city cleaning Jobs

By Robert Dryden and Jim Stanford Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay cut and then left Canada in search of cheaper labour in the U.S. In Toronto, a similar story is unfolding, only it’s city council — not an industrial giant [...]

City’s plans to contract out 1000 cleaning jobs should be stopped, say Hulchanski and other Toronto academics

On Feb 16, 2012 David Hulchanski and Grace-Edward Galabuzi presented an Open Letter asking Council to stop contracting out cleaning jobs. The letter has been signed by 100 leading academics from the University of Toronto, Ryerson and York University. Citing the alarming growth of poverty and precarious, low-paying jobs in Toronto, the letter urges Council [...]

Stop contracting out Toronto cleaning jobs, academics say

Toronto must stop contracting out municipal cleaning jobs to stem the alarming growth of working poor in the city, academics and community leaders say. “Turning good jobs into poverty wage jobs will only deepen the current job crisis,” they say in an open letter to Mayor Rob Ford and council being released Thursday. “Toronto’s budget [...]

Stop the $6 million cut to employment standards enforcement

Despite the fact that workplace violations are at a crisis, the government wants to cut $6 million out of Employment Standards enforcement. EMAIL Dalton McGuinty to ask him to keep his promise to workers and stop the cut today: Wage theft is at a crisis. People need confidence that when they go to work they [...]

City Council vote on Cleaners’ Jobs

On Jan 17, 2012, City Council considered changes to Mayor Ford’s budget as well as an omnibus motion by Councillor Josh Colle to reverse many of the proposed cuts to services that residents depend on. A majority of the Councillors supported Councillor Colle’s motion and it passed with 23 votes for the motion and 21 [...]

Rally for Respect: Demand a Toronto for Everyone

Labour and community activists are mobilizing for a massive turnout on Tuesday, January 17th when Toronto City Council starts debating the 2012 budget. Despite some tinkering by his hand-picked Executive, the budget contains deep cuts to services, programs and jobs. Packing the Council Chambers from 9:30 in the morning till 9:00 at night is vitally [...]