Tag: Worth Fighting For
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Worth Fighting For Strike Mandate Votes: YES votes growing every day!
Workers in the Worth Fighting For campaign are escalating their campaign and demonstrating they are organized and ready to fight for fair pay and long-term funding for the services they provide. To date, 46 units have voted YES in their strike mandate votes, joining more units who are in the process of scheduling strike mandate…
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Don’t let Doug Ford cheat your community: tell him to pay community and social service workers what they are owed
Workers in the Worth Fighting For campaign are ramping up their fight and calling on the Ford government to pay them what they are owed and invest in community and social services. Workers have had their wages squashed for years while community and social services have been chronically underfunded – leaving long waitlists for services…
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Worth Fighting For at Queen’s Park: Day of Action recap
On Thursday, October 23, OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario community and social services workers and allies took our fight straight to the Ford government at Queen’s Park! Workers in the coordinated bargaining campaign are fighting to secure stable, long-term funding that invests in community and social services and finally provides workers meaningful wage increases. Years after…
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Worth Fighting For Day of Action at Queen’s Park!
On October 23rd, Worth Fighting For takes on Queen’s Park! Over the past year, community and social services workers in OPSEU/SEFPO and CUPE Ontario have been organizing and building power. Thousands of workers across the province have leveraged that power by taking coordinated strike mandate votes. Now, the Worth Fighting For campaign is taking the…
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How to elect pro-worker politicians: CLC launches inspiring playbook on the eve of two big elections
By Lorinda Seward, Local 351, Editor, inSolidarity With the rallying cry “Workers Together,” the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) hosted its first Political Action Conference on January 20-21, 2025, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The conference brought union members, activists, and leaders from across the country together to strategize, share, and inspire action for a…