Good Jobs for All

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 [...]

OFL Rejects Mowat Centre Pay Day Loan Scheme for unemployed workers

The Ontario Federation of Labour has released an assessment of the EI Report from the Mowat Task Force. Click here to download the full assessment. (TORONTO) — Ontario Federation of Labour President Sid Ryan has rejected the latest report from the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance (EI) Task Force. “I was dumb-founded to see that the [...]

City cleaners in safety suits bring message to Councillors at Monday’s rally

Toronto, ON – City cleaners facing possible job cuts made their voices heard outside City Hall Monday night at the Rally for Toronto. As City Council continues to discuss proposed cuts, cleaners asked Councillors to consider the far-reaching implications of cutting hundreds, if not thousands, of living-wage jobs. Cleaners wore protective suits, goggles, and gas [...]

Toronto cleaners call on City Councillors to defend good jobs, ensure transparency

MEDIA RELEASE September 15, 2011 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Toronto cleaners call on City Councillors to defend good jobs, ensure transparency Toronto, ON – Hundreds of City cleaners’ jobs may be contracted out and turned into poverty-wage jobs without a chance for City Councillors to weigh in and vote on the issue. The cleaners [...]

Toronto’s Price Tag

A fabulous new video by Ayesha Adhami calls everyone to come out on September 26th to City Hall. Watch it and send it on to everyone who cares about Toronto! View on YouTube website

Justice and Dignity for Cleaners

Hundreds of City cleaners’ jobs may be contracted out without a chance for our elected Councillors to weigh in and vote on this issue. The cleaners at the Toronto Police Service are the first group under attack. Their jobs may be cut and handed over to private cleaning companies. Other cleaners, like those at Toronto [...]

FORD’S BUDGET BULLYING

Progressive economist Hugh Mackenzie hit it out of the park with an op-ed in the Toronto Star about Rob Ford picking on police station cleaners, turning decent jobs into poverty wage jobs. “It’s a perfect symbol of the hidden, nasty side of the Ford administration.” To read the full article go to www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1014230.

Talking about jobs

Check out the newly launched Talking about Jobs website. Join in on the discussion! Over the last six months the Wellesley Institute, Atkinson Foundation and Metcalf Foundation brought together thoughtful leaders, practitioners and scholars to envision, in a pragmatic and practical way, 21st century labour market policies for Ontario. What grew from these discussions were [...]

May 17-18: City Council votes on privatization proposal

On May 17-18, City Council will vote on Mayor Ford’s garbage privatization proposal. The plan is to privatize residential collection of recycling, organics, and garbage west of Yonge Street, litter collection in all parks, street cleaning, and other collection across the city on an “adhoc basis.” At the April 26th Public Works & Infrastructure Committee, [...]

RESPECT – Our Communities, Public Services, and Good Jobs! Rally on Saturday April 9

The Good Jobs for All coalition has endorsed the Community Day of Action on Saturday April 9, 2011. Follow Respect Toronto on Facebook. 1 p.m. Saturday, April 9, 2011 Rally at Dundas Square, followed by a march to Toronto City Hall What’s at Stake? • Services and programs that serve every resident and community, such [...]