Tag: Pay equity
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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…
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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 reaction to human rights concerns took 10 months too long: Thomas
TORONTO – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has taken “10 months too long” to respond to human rights concerns around Ontario colleges operating in Saudi Arabia, the President of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union says. “I wrote Kathleen Wynne about Algonquin College’s campus in Saudi Arabia over 10 months ago,” Warren (Smokey) Thomas said today.…
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Human rights must trump austerity
Dear friends, Would you set up shop in a country where you could lose your head for criticizing the king? Our provincial government would. For close to a year, I’ve been asking our Premier to explain why Algonquin College in Ottawa has a campus in Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom has a dismal human rights record;…
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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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Update on the Central OPSEU Pay Equity Process
On behalf of the Joint Steering Committee, we wish to provide our participating members with an update on the Central Pay Equity process. The Joint Evaluation Committee has been diligently reviewing the completed Job Information Questionnaire’s (JIQs) and has completed evaluations for approximately 95% of the 1600+ JIQs. The evaluation committee must reach consensus on…
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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…