Tag: Gender Wage Gap
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Equal Pay Day: The job is far from done
We are taking time on this Equal Pay Day to reflect on how far we’ve come to ensure women are treated equally, but we’re also thinking about how much more must be done. Equal Pay Day aims to draw attention to the gap that still exists between wages for men and women and speaks to…
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OPSEU/SEFPO celebrates Equality Day
Every year on April 17 Canadians celebrate Equality Day, which marks the day that Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed along with its landmark provisions guaranteeing equality under the law. The “equality provisions” were enshrined in our laws to ensure that everyone is entitled to the same fundamental human rights – the right…
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Thank you! Women make our workplaces stronger: International Women’s Day 2019
OPSEU Celebrates International Women’s Day A message from OPSEU’s President and First Vice-President/Treasurer: On this International Women’s Day we honour all women both inside and outside of OPSEU – including women in the province of Ontario, across Canada, and around the world for the endless contributions they make to their workplaces, families, and to their…
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A major victory for Equal Pay and Pay Transparency!
"We are asking you to make it a priority to ensure that no woman is left behind and that the transparency act actually forces our employers to address the gap that exists. We agree that it has been discriminatory, and again, the group of people who are most affected are the people who can’t fight…
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It’s 2018, time to close the pay gap
Friends, its Equal Pay Day today, the date on the calendar that sets how far into the year that women must work to catch up with how much men made last year. It’s time to raise the bar for women and close the gap. We at OPSEU have been leading the fight to achieve pay…
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Show us the Money! – Equal Pay Day Events
On average, women must work 15.5 months to make what a man does in 12 months. That's why we're marking #EqualPayDay on Tuesday April 10. OPSEU is calling on the Ontario and federal governments to #ShowUsTheMoney with strong #paytransparency and #payequity legislation. We're #donewaiting for governments and employers to close the #genderpaygap. Please also…
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OPSEU members out in full force for Equal Pay Day
OPSEU members in developmental services came out in full force Tuesday for the Equal Pay Day rally at Queen’s Park. Members helped lead leafleting action on all four corners of University Ave. and College St. OPSEU Region 3 Vice-President Sara Labelle, Developmental Services sector chair Erin Smith-Rice, and Indigenous mobilizer Crystal Sinclair all delivered rousing…
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Fighting for a Happy Equal Pay Day
Dear friends: Well, it’s Equal Pay Day. We wish today could be a happier one, where we all celebrate the success of finally closing the gender wage gap in Ontario. But obviously, that’s not what today is about. The gender wage gap persists, and it does for so many reasons. Sure, we have laws in…
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OPSEU members join Equal Pay Day rally
Toronto – Members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) who work in developmental services across Ontario will be in Toronto this afternoon to join the Equal Pay Coalition’s Equal Pay Day rally. “We will not break through the glass ceiling as one woman rising up,” said Sara Labelle, OPSEU Region 3 Vice-President and…
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Pay equity: Don’t complete that survey
OPSEU members who receive a link to a questionnaire from Ontario’s Pay Equity Commissioner should not complete it, OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas says. “I just found out today that the Commissioner, Emanuela Heyninck, has sent out a survey to many union locals and individual union members on the subject of pay equity,” he said.…
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OPSEU President demands Premier take action on pay equity
Toronto – Following Community Living Tillsonburg’s earlier refusal to make pay equity payments as required by the law, the union representing workers in the developmental services across the province is ramping up its fight to achieve pay equity. In a strongly-worded letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) President Warren (Smokey) Thomas…
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Thomas to Wynne: Enforce and fund pay equity now
The letter below was sent by OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas to Premier Kathleen Wynne. In it, the President urges the Premier to start funding pay equity in developmental services. February 16, 2017 Kathleen Wynne, Premier of Ontario Legislative Building Queen's Park Toronto ON M7A 1A1 Re: Your duty to enforce pay equity in the…
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Child care workers matter!
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas issued the following statement today to mark Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. It’s 2016. So why we are still making the case for quality, universal childcare? Today marks the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care’s Child Care Worker and Early Childhood Educator Appreciation Day. It’s a…
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Wynne’s decisions driving down women’s wages in Ontario
In a guest column in the Toronto Sun, OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas urges the premier to take action now and stop driving the gender wage gap wider in the public sector by cutting women’s wages. Read the full column in the Toronto Sun.
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On Equal Pay Day, how about card-check for women, too?
Toronto – It should be just as easy for a woman to join a union as it is for a man, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union said today. “Under Ontario law, the only workers who can unionize using the fastest and fairest method are the workers in the most male-dominated sector…
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It’s 2016: Close the Gender Pay Gap!
Equal Pay Day is marked on April 19 in Ontario. This is because with a 30 per cent gap in income, women on average need to work three-and-a-half months into the new year to earn what men do by December 31 of the previous year. "The cost of the wage gap to women is staggering.…
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Members rally for women’s wages
A boisterous throng of OPSEU members and friends had a message for Kathleen Wynne this week: Fix the gender wage gap. Local 586 President Jessika Sikora turned up the volume on gender wage parity. Ontario’s wage gap is 31 per cent – and even higher for Indigenous women, racialized women and women with disabilities. On…
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OPSEU President speaks about the gender wage gap on AM 900 CHML
OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas speaks about the gender wage gap on AM 900 CHML in Hamilton. Click below to listen to the full interview with Scott Thompson. Related: OPSEU In the News
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Taking the lead on women’s wages
Dear friends, International Women’s Day, March 8, is a day to celebrate the achievements of women, here at home and around the world. It’s also a day when we re-commit to improving the lives of girls and women everywhere. There is no shortage of places to start. In the past year, the federal election and…