Tag: Gender Wage Gap
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Radio campaign calls out Wynne for widening gender wage gap
Listen to the two radio ads: Ad #1: Ad #2: TORONTO — The Ontario Public Service Employees Union has launched a two-week radio ad campaign to raise awareness of how the Wynne government is widening the wage gap between men and women. The campaign is timed to coincide with International Women’s Day on March 8.…
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Wynne policies widen wage gap for women: OPSEU
TORONTO – Liberal government cuts to public services and pay equity are widening the wage gap between women and men, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says. “Premier Kathleen Wynne claims she wants to reduce the gender wage gap in Ontario, and we want her to, but five years of austerity have…
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Closing the Gender Wage Gap: A frontline public sector perspective
A submission to the Gender Wage Gap Strategy Steering Committee, Ontario Ministry of Labour, from the Ontario Public Service Employees Union [1] No matter how it is measured – by the year, by the week, or by the hour – average incomes for women are substantially lower than those of men.[3],[5] In the past few…
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Unions best route to equal pay, forum hears
Unionization is one of the most effective ways to ensure that women are paid fair wages, Deb Tungatt, OPSEU Region 2 Vice-President, told a town hall meeting of the provincial government’s Gender Wage Gap Steering Committee in Burlington Nov. 23. “A lot of people, especially in the retail, hotel, and home care industry don’t have…
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Have your say on closing the gender wage gap
It’s a fact: on average, women in Ontario get paid less than men. Women are more likely to work in low-wage industries. They are less likely to be promoted into higher-paid jobs. And sometimes, no matter what job they do, they get paid less than men doing the same work. The Ontario government says it…
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Where’s the plan for equal paydays, Kathleen?
Dear friends, For every dollar a man in Ontario makes in a year, a woman makes 69 cents. That’s what Statistics Canada says. It’s a pretty surprising number. This is 2015, not 1915. You would think we’d be doing better by now. Unfortunately, we’re not. That’s why the Equal Pay Coalition is marking April 20 as Equal…
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Public sector wages fairer, not higher: report
Wages for public sector workers are significantly fairer than wages for private sector workers, a new report shows. “The size of your paycheck should not be determined by your gender or your race,” says the new study from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. “Yet employment incomes continue to vary for these reasons, and the…
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Wear red on Equal Pay Day – April 16
Equal Pay Day marks how far into the next year a woman has to work to match what a man has made in the previous year. In Ontario this year Equal Pay Day will take place on Wednesday, April 16. The Ontario gender pay gap has now increased to 31% which is one of the…