Decent Work Organizing Meeting

This meeting will be held online using Zoom. There will be ASL and live captions provided in English. Please RSVP to receive a link to join the meeting.  

At Tuesday's meeting, we're planning to have 5 breakout groups:

1. Status for All 

We'll talk about next steps in our fight for rights, regularization and status for 1.7 million migrants in this country, including 500,000 undocumented persons.

If you haven't yet, please sign the Status for All petition.

2. Climate Justice 

Climate justice = Migrant justice = Justice for workers. Join this group to finalize plans to give a big push to promote the Global Climate Strike happening this Friday September 23. 

In Toronto, Justice for Workers will join the labour contingent on Friday, September 23 at 12:30 pm at the Steel Hall (25 Cecil Street). RSVP to let us know you're coming. 

3. Fix Employment Insurance

Employment insurance (EI) is inaccessible and inadequate for too many workers. But instead of making EI better, the federal government is planning to make it worse on September 25th. We can't let them get away with it! Join this group to strategize about how we can push the government to honour their promise to make EI better. 

If you haven't yet, please sign the petition to fix Employment Insurance.

4. Labour solidarity and justice for workers

Join this breakout group to organize the solidarity required for a workers' movement that cannot be divided. How we can we directly support workers who are fighting for their rights at work? And how do we build support for our Justice for Workers demands, like a $20 minimum wage; equal pay for equal work, and making it easier for workers to join unions? 

Take action now to support Safety Inspectors who are striking for safety for all of us.

5. Paid sick days

Peggy Sattler, NDP MPP for London West, has tabled Bill 4, Stay Home If You Are Sick Act, 2022. If passed, this bill will create legislation for 10 permanent paid sick days plus an additional 14 days during public health outbreaks like COVID.

This bill has passed first reading. But we need to pull out all the stops to demand our local Members of Provincial Parliament vote in favour of the bill when it comes up for second reading when the Ontario Legislative Assembly resumes after October 25.