It is well-documented that racialized individuals disproportionately experience low-wage and precarious work. At the same time, diversity and inclusion are becoming increasingly recognized as important drivers of growth and innovation. There are serious economic and social costs to allowing a colour coded labour market to develop in any jurisdiction. In spite of the trend some companies are discovering just how beneficial diversity and inclusion can be.
Too many retailers believe that they must offer bad jobs to keep prices low. As a result, a growing number of workers suffer low wages, poor benefits, constantly changing schedules and few opportunities for advancement. But many researchers and retail managers are finding that good jobs, with better pay and more predictable hours, are actually good for the bottom line.
Climate change is happening. How Canada responds will have important and far-reaching implications for the environment, the economy and the labour market.
For too many people in Canada today, the dream of landing a good job is out of reach. For an increasing number, jobs that were once considered ‘stable’ – with decent wages, benefits and working conditions – are under threat. Good jobs appear to be falling off the economic map.
TORONTO, March 27, 2015 /CNW/ - Canada's largest union in the private sector, and the leading union in the auto sector, will release an independent study Monday examining the economic impact of the General Motors plant in Oshawa.
TORONTO, March 25, 2015 /CNW/ - With more than 280 jobs on the line, Unifor held a protest at the offices of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority today. The union is calling on the GTAA to require offers of employment to the low-wage workers that will be out of a job due to a change in the contract for those who service seniors and passengers with special needs at the airport.
TORONTO, March 24, 2015 /CNW/ - Unifor will hold a rally at the offices of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority (GTAA) to protest the layoff of more than 280 low-wage workers who service passengers who require extra assistance.
"The GTAA has a choice—it can give job security to the workers who service passengers with special needs and seniors, or it can toss them into unemployment," said Jerry Dias, Unifor's National President.
SYDNEY, NS, March 20, 2015 /CNW/ - Staff at Town Daycare in Glace Bay have ratified a new collective agreement with their employer after four days on strike.
TORONTO, March 19, 2015 /CNW/ - Today's approach to pick and pay cable by the CRTC will be needlessly disruptive to Canada's broadcast and entertainment industries, putting at risk this country's ability to tell its own stories, Canada's largest media union says.
"If the CRTC is determined to go down this road, it should do so only on a gradual, experimental and trial basis," Unifor Media Director Howard Law said.
A letter from Unifor National President Jerry Dias to the Honourable Bernard Valcourt Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development regarding improving First Nations Education.
Last week, Uganda’s President Museveni signed the law imposing harsh penalties for homosexuality. As the President of Canada’s largest private sector union, I write to urge you to take action to show Canada’s condemnation of this law, recall Canada’s consular representative from Kampala and introduce special immigration measures.
OTTAWA, March 19, 2015 /CNW/ - The loss of 140 school bus jobs in Ottawa today is an illustration of the unneeded turmoil caused by the Ontario government's Request for Proposals process for handing out contracts, and points to the need for reforms to the system, the province's primary school bus union says.
TORONTO, March 19, 2015 /CNW/ - Unifor is objecting to a move by the Greater Toronto Airport Authority (GTAA) to change providers leading to layoffs of more than 260 workers who service passengers with special needs.
"Unifor was formed to fight back against the abuse of low-wage and precarious workers," said Jerry Dias, Unifor National President. "We will do whatever it takes to ensure these workers are treated fairly and aren't thrust into unemployment by the whims of the GTAA."
TORONTO, March 18, 2015 /CNW/ - Unifor Local 100 members have ratified the final new agreement with CN Rail by 79 per cent.
Voting took place at membership meetings over the last two weeks, in 22 locations across Canada. The agreement was reached on Monday, February 23, avoiding a lock-out by CN.
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