Empowering Workers
Economic justice requires the empowerment of workers. Only through strong collective representation within and across all economic sectors can we create a future with good jobs and decent work for all. To empower workers will require both restoring rights that have been lost, and enabling new forms of collective action to match the changing nature of the economy.
Coalition Celebrates Minimum Wage Passing $10 Milestone
March 30, 2010. The Good Jobs for All Coalition is celebrating the scheduled increase on March 31, 2010 in Ontario’s minimum wage to $10.25 an hour, up 0.75 cents from $9.50.
Thousands demonstrate in Toronto for Good Jobs
TORONTO—Thousands of unemployed, retired and concerned community members rallied in downtown Toronto on Saturday afternoon demanding that MPs use their last full week in Ottawa to fix Employment Insurance and take action to create good, long-term jobs.
“A plan for good, green jobs is the long-term solution,” said Winnie Ng, Co-chair of the Good Jobs for All Coalition. “In the next week, we need Michael Ignatieff to finally call the government’s bluff and fix EI because unemployment insurance is the most effective economic stabiliser and making it more accessible is the right thing to do. We’re calling on all MPs to work together to pass a bill that’s one vote away from delivering financial relief to thousands of families that have been thrown out of work through no fault of their own.” Read on…
Unemployed Demand Permanent EI Fix
TORONTO—With more than 10% of people in the Greater Toronto Area unemployed and young Canadians facing the aftermath of a summer with the second-highest unemployment on record (19.2%) as they return to classes, the Good Jobs for All Coalition hosted a town hall meeting about the current jobs crisis and the broken Employment Insurance program on Monday evening. Read on…
Mayoral Debate – Building a Fair Toronto for All
Help us choose the questions we should ask the mayoral candidates.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
7.00pm – 9.00pm
Innis Town Hall
2 Sussex Ave, University of Toronto, St. George Campus
John Tory – Moderator; Hamlin Grange – Keynote Speaker
Good Jobs for All Coalition Delivers Mixed Verdict on McGuinty’s 2010 Budget
TORONTO –The Good Jobs for All Coalition issued a mixed response to the McGuinty government’s 2010 budget, released 4pm Thursday, March 25, 2010.
Harper’s 2010 Budget Fails to Fix EI
TORONTO – The Harper Government’s 2010 Federal Budget has utterly failed to fix Employment Insurance (EI) and help thousands of unemployed workers survive Canada’s ongoing economic crisis. Read on…
Year in Review: Fighting for Employment Equity
Employment Equity was one of the themes at the November 2008 Summit. It has also been identified at the recent Good Green Jobs for All conference as part of the solution. It underscores the importance of the notion “FOR ALL”, and will be an issue focused on in 2010.
Year in Review: Real Protection for Migrant Workers
The GJFA Coalition joined with the Coalition for Change for Caregivers and Temporary Foreign Workers and community, women’s, immigrant rights, faith-based and trade union organizations strongly opposing the proposed changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program which will entrench a disposable workforce with few rights.
EI Campaign: Year in Review and What’s Next
The GJFA Coalition’s is continuing work on the Fix Employment Insurance (EI) Campaign, launched at the start of 2009. In 2010 we intend to continue to fight to make sure that workers being laid off across Canada get the employment insurance that they pay for.
Good Jobs for All Coalition calls for Meaningful Protection for Workers in Precarious Jobs
On Christmas Eve 2009 four immigrant construction workers were killed and another crippled when the swing stage they were working on broke in two and they plunged 13 storeys. Read on…