Workers' Action Centre
@WorkersAC
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Worker-based organization committed to improving the lives & working conditions of people in low-wage & unstable employment.
Toronto
Joined March 2012
Our employers steal our wages. And our government's allowed it to happen. It's time we stopped it! Join us on Saturday November 29 at 1pm at the Ministry of Labour to call on the Ontario government to do their job and protect workers. RSVP below: https://t.co/IQLHgE8YZL
workersactioncentre.org
Saturday, November 29 at 1:00 PM | Ministry of Labour, 400 University Ave
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"When a government knows about a serious systemic problem like this, and has the data showing how bad it is, but doesn't engage, that's a choice." Listen how the Ontario government's lack of enforcement is driving a $200 million wage theft crisis: https://t.co/md1V4cCXLl
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As Rathekka’s confidence grows through WAC's training, she lifts up workers around her. The more workers we can educate and support, the stronger the #DecentWork movement gets✊ Donate today: https://t.co/KFVclY1VpA Help build worker power: https://t.co/gNtYtAfUH6
#WorkersBowl
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"I lost everything. House gone, church gone, everything gone." MWAC is sending direct & barrier-free cash aid to assist with emergency food, medicine, home repair, and transportation. This is the only fund for farmworkers, by workers. ✅️ Help rebuild: https://t.co/hV8uAmS0qa
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Unaffordability. Unemployment. Job Losses. Homelessness. Ontario can't afford mass evictions, too! We've joined 134 organizations working across Ontario to demand that Premier Ford protect renters and repeal #Bill60. Read our joint letter: https://t.co/hnqSSo06l8
#OnLab #OnPoli
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Tenants visited Tony Irwin the CEO of FRPO-the main landlord lobby behind #Bill60-to ask questions about the bill that will make it easier and faster for landlords to evict tenants. Tell Doug Ford and Tony Irwin keep their hands off our rights! https://t.co/FBtpTYOXaT
#ONpoli
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WAC’s education programs teach workers their rights, how to defend them, and how to share that knowledge with other workers. Our communities are stronger when we're empowered to defend our rights at work. Help us build a #decentwork movement: https://t.co/KFVclY1VpA
#WorkersBowl
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🎳 Did you know I'm participating in this year's Workers' Bowl - an annual charitable fundraiser for the @WorkersAC? Please consider making a donation to their incredible work through my page:
workersbowl.ca
🎳 Did you know I'm participating in this year's Workers' Bowl - an annual charitable fundraiser for the @WorkersAC? Please consider making a donation to their incredible work through my page:
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Rent is high. Groceries are impossible. But instead of taxing billionaires, the govt is pushing Bill C-12 to deport workers. Syed Hussan explains how migrant blaming is a strategy to distract us. Stop Bill C-12. Stop the scapegoating: https://t.co/qkNesRpNiH
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A new poll indicates that a majority of Ontarians believe Labour Minister David Piccini should resign or at the very least be removed from Ford's cabinet over the skills development fund scandal
toronto.citynews.ca
Majority of Ontarians believe Labour Minister David Piccini should resign amid an ongoing stream of scandals, according to a new poll.
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The Ontario Ministry of Labour needs to do their job. How can a company that Ontario government knows broke the law and owes their workers $250,000 in compensation be allowed to continue to operate as if nothing happened? @DavidPiccini #onpoli
https://t.co/aDR5KfgYIl
thestar.com
Managing director of Sunrise Franchise Corp. says Labour Ministry “unfairly punished” the company.
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Let's get organized to fight back! Sunday, 8pm, mass organizing call 👇 https://t.co/hoWYfjeKZz
The Ford government's announcement today is an attack on tenants in the province. It is no surprise that they made the announcement next to Tony Irwin, from the landlord lobby FRPO. Landlords lobbied for this & Ford is giving them what they want. We are going to fight back
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The WSIB "Surplus": A Political Slush Fund A new Special Report explains how Ontario's injured and sick workers are being screwed out of billions and handed over to the business class and multinational corporations. https://t.co/CZcXRvYqJv
@WSIB @WSIBPresident @DavidPiccini
rankandfile.ca
A Special Rankandfile.ca Report In less than 10 years, the Ontario's Workplace Safety Insurance Board went from an alleged "unfunded liability crisis" threatening the very existence of the compensa...
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Julieta cleaned Toronto's long-term-care homes during COVID: “But she’s still owed nearly $6,000 in unpaid wages.” People are fed up with #wagetheft. Hear from workers fighting back - join the webinar Oct 28, 7PM: https://t.co/V8rzJr8d96
https://t.co/mJOOkQglWj via @torontostar
thestar.com
Misclassification and complex subcontracting chains are fuelling wage theft. Over a decade, Ontario workers lost tens of millions of dollars.
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We put Queen’s Park on Notice: economic justice now! ❄️ Freeze rents 💰 Raise the rates 💵 Raise wages… 🚫#StopWageTheft! Our laws don't protect workers from losing $1000s in unpaid wages. Join the webinar + fight back🗓️OCT 28, 7PM: https://t.co/V8rzJr8d96
#Justice4Workers
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WEBINAR: Fight Back Against Wage Theft in Ontario When: Tuesday, October 28 | 🕖 7:00 PM Register at https://t.co/A5GmHKMv0W Wage theft is a crisis in Ontario. The @WorkersAC’s new report shows that 60% of workers have faced pay-related violations from unpaid hours to stolen
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Our neighbours’ wages are being increasingly stolen by employers because the provincial government makes it just too easy. We all lose when employment laws are broken. More services are needed in communities when families are deprived of income and basic worker rights.
📢NEW REPORT exposes how "Ontario’s enforcement system has allowed wage theft to flourish—from employers who disappear behind shell companies to franchises that evade accountability—leaving workers…fighting for money they may never see.” #StopWageTheft #Justice4Workers #onlab
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Powerful new research from @WorkersAC on the epidemic of wage theft in Ontario: https://t.co/TRZAciIIyP. Based on multilingual survey of 513 workers, 60% of whom had experienced a pay violation, 28% were paid below minimum wage. #canlab
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Massive crisis of wage theft: "Alberto Ojeda is still waiting for more than $31,000 a Toronto employer owes him—wages the [Ontario] Ministry of Labour ordered paid more than three years ago." #StopWageTheft #DecentWork #Justice4Workers
https://t.co/JCkJQC0Hyz via @torontostar
thestar.com
A Workers’ Action Centre report reveals the total of assessments over a decade. Government collection efforts have failed to recover tens of millions.
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