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Sidewalk Lab Project

The presentation is now available from the December 12, 2018 forum:
“What’s the story with the Google Toronto Sidewalk Lab Project?”

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Speakers Kumsa Baker (TCBN), moderator Dusha Sritharan (TEA), Alejandra Ruiz Vargas (ACORN) and Nasma Ahmed (Digital Justice Lab) outline the background and some challenges with Sidewalk Lab’s plans for Toronto waterfront at Parliament Street and Queen’s Quay.

Election Charter for Climate Justice

Toronto Election Charter for Climate Justice and Good Green Jobs for All

In Toronto’s October 22, 2018 Toronto municipal election, we must demand action against climate change.

The Good Jobs for All Coalition created the Election Charter for Climate Justice to support action now and after the election. It contains nine great measures that should be included in the City’s ongoing program to meet our greenhouse gas reduction targets.

Use it to ask candidates who are seeking your vote what they pledge to do to combat climate change:

  • Take the Charter to all-candidates meetings and ask questions
  • Write letters to the editor about the nine measures
  • When candidates ask for your vote on your doorstep, ask if they’ll commit to advocating for the Charter

Download the short version of the Charter or the longer version.

Election Charter for Climate Justice and Good Green Jobs for All

In Ontario’s 2018 provincial election, we need to continue taking action against climate change.

The Good Jobs for All Coalition created the Election Charter for Climate Justice to support action now and after the election on June 7th. It contains nine great measures to be included in a proposed Climate Change Accountability Act.

Use the Charter at all-candidates meetings, in letters to the editor, on your doorstep when candidates ask for your vote, and in other ways you use to take action.

Here are three questions you can ask candidates and parties:

  1. Do you support a Climate Change Accountability Act that would include adequate measures to ensure Ontario’s legislated Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction targets are met?
  2. Do you agree that all revenues earned under the cap and trade system be spent on GHG reduction activities? (Note: The undesirable alternative approach is to give residents “dividends” or to put funds into general revenues.)
  3. Do you support “just transition” measures to reduce GHGs, so that the negative impact is minimized on workers and historically marginalized groups and they are involved in decision-making? This includes measures such as:
    • Just transition funds
    • Investing in publicly owned renewable energy, public transit, public building retrofits
    • Stopping privatization of Hydro
    • Community Benefit Agreements for all infrastructure projects over $50-million
    • Mandatory joint union/management environment committees in workplaces

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What’s Up With NAFTA, Jobs and Equity?

Find out what two well-known Canadians have to say about what’s at stake for us:

  • Indigenous activist, author and Ryerson professor Dr. Pamela Palmater
  • Monique Simard, Quebec labour activist, former politician, and cultural leader

Event co-sponsored by Good Jobs for All Coalition, Ryerson University’s Unifor Sam Gindin Chair and Jack Layton Chair. Recorded on March 20, 2018.
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VIDEO: Leap into a Green Economy

Leap into a Green Economy with Good Jobs for All!

The Good Jobs for All Coalition (GJFA) is an alliance of community, labour, social justice, youth and environmental organizations in the Toronto region. It was formed in 2008 to start a focused dialogue on how to improve living and working conditions in Canada’s largest urban centre.

The Coalition’s goal is to develop strategies that affirm the values of a truly just society – healthy communities, a sustainable economy, strong public services, equity, and decent work for all.

On February 29th the Good Jobs for All Coalition held a City of Toronto Forum on Green Jobs. Participants included:
* Moderated by Nigel Barriffe and Carolyn Egan.
* Welcome greetings by Winnie Ng.
* Rajean Hoilett Chairperson of Canadian Federation of Students (CFS-Ontario)
* John Cartwright President of TYRLC
* Cheryl Teelucksingh and Laura Zeglen, co-authors of the 2016 report entitled “Building Toronto: Achieving Social Inclusion in Toronto’s Emerging Green Economy” for Metcalfe’s Green Prosperity series.
* Prince Sibanda Toronto Community Benefits Network
* Ameen Binwalee

Recorded in Toronto, 29 February 2016.

Leap into a Green Economy

LeapIntoEconomyThe Good Jobs for All Coalition will be hosting a City of Toronto Forum on Green Jobs. Participants will include the Canadian Federation of Students (Ontario), Professor Cheryl Teelucksingh, co-author of the 2016 report entitled “Building Toronto: Achieving Social Inclusion in Toronto’s Emerging Green Economy” for Metcalfe’s Green Prosperity series, and the Toronto-York Labour Council. The Toronto-York Labour Council will speak to its January 2016 “Labour and Climate Change Statement”, prepared following the Paris COP21, which calls on the City of Toronto to transform its approach to energy and the environment.

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When: Monday Feb 29, 6pm to 9pm
Where: Ted Rogers School of Management 55 Dundas St West, Toronto

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Employment insurance measures a must for fiscal stimulus

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Angella MacEwen – January 26, 2016

Low oil prices have taken their toll on an already weak Canadian economy, where household debt levels are at record highs and business investment continues to lag. The Bank of Canada held off on a further rate cut this week, opting instead to wait and see the size and structure of fiscal stimulus in the upcoming federal budget.

This decision comes as economists are split between the need for “shovel-ready” infrastructure spending and longer-term investments. Alongside this debate are calls for stimulus targeted to oil-producing provinces, especially Alberta. That debate misses the fact that the most shovel-ready and targeted fiscal stimulus is employment insurance. Meaningful infrastructure spending can take months or years to get off the ground, but unemployed workers get (and spend) EI benefits within weeks. Money flows directly to hard-hit communities exactly when they need it.

This is why the optimal policy mix for our current economic situation includes temporary EI measures and faster implementation of some EI election promises. The temporary measures will act as stimulus, and the implementation of the election promises will make sure that access to benefits is fairer for unemployed workers.

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Source: broadbentinstitute.ca

The Gender Wage Gap and Changing Workplaces in Ontario

A Good Jobs for All Coalition Submission:

The Gender Wage Gap and Changing Workplaces in Ontario

Submitted jointly to:

The Wage Gap Strategy Steering Committee
400 University Avenue, 12th Floor
Toronto, ON M7A 1T7
By email: GenderWageGap@ontario.ca

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The Changing Workplaces Review
ELCPB, 400 University Avenue, 12th Floor
Toronto, ON M7A 1T7
By email: CWR.SpecialAdvisors@ontario.ca

January, 2016
The Good Jobs for All Coalition was formed in 2008 and brings together a broad base of more than 30 community and labour organizations in the Greater Toronto Area. We are working to develop strategies that affirm the values of a truly just society including equity, a healthy environment and decent employment.

As part of that work we seek public policies that put an end to conditions which are eroding equality in the labour market and endangering good jobs with decent working conditions, pay and benefits. Instead we seek policies that help build an economy with good jobs for all, now and for the next generation.

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