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Rally for Education, Saturday April 6, 2019

 

Ontario members,

I write today to ask for your help in defending our education system from the devastating changes planned by Doug Ford’s Conservative government.

It is clear that Ford is hell-bent on implementing his corporate agenda with no qualms about injuring the most vulnerable or tearing down cherished institutions, as witnessed by his attack on elementary and highschool students and their teachers.

Ontario Minister of Education Lisa Thompson has announced that the Conservative government intends to:

  • Increase class sizes in grades 4-8 and in high school; reducing attention given to students and limiting access to equipment and other resources
  • Cut thousands of teacher and support staff jobs
  • Remove 1.4 billion dollars from the public education system
  • Download the government’s duty to support higher needs students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) onto schools without adequate funding
  • Require students to take several online courses; replacing personal attention with e-learning
  • Introduce a regressive sexual education curriculum

The Conservative government’s changes to the education system will hurt children, and they know it.

To add insult to injury Ford has warned teacher unions against taking legal protest action to protect their students. Ontario workers will not be silenced and the unions that represent them will not be intimidated!

Show you oppose these cuts and Ford’s bully efforts at the Rally for Education on Saturday April 6.

I especially reach out to those who normally don’t or who may have never attended a rally. Now is the time to stand up as union members, as concerned citizens and as grandparents and parents.

Rally for Education, Saturday April 6, 2019

12:00 p.m. Queen’s Park, Toronto

More information here  

See you there.

In solidarity,

Jerry Dias
National President

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Bell to bring new broadband wireless internet to Kawartha Lakes, Peterborough County

Bell has announced that it’s bringing its Wireless Home Internet broadband service to Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough County. Operating in the 3500 MHz spectrum band on Bell’s advanced LTE wireless network, the service offers affordable high-speed internet connectivity to residents and cottagers in smaller, rural areas.
With this expansion, the following communities will receive Wireless Home Internet:
Bobcaygeon
Bridgenorth
Burleigh Falls
Fenelon Falls
Havelock
Kinmount
Lakefield
Nephton
Omemee

The service is currently available in the Buckhorn, Kirkfield, Lindsay and Little Britain communities. “As Canada’s leader in broadband communications innovation, we are pleased to extend high-speed Internet to residents and cottagers alike in Kawartha Lakes and Peterborough County,” said Rizwan Jamal, president of Bell residential and small business, in a press statement……

Read more here …..

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Equal Pay Day – April 9 – Wear Red Tuesday April 9th

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This year on Tuesday, April 9, 2019, Unifor marks Equal Pay Day. This date is designated each year as the time when women will finally earn the same wage that men did in 2018!

Join Unifor to take action to close the gender wage gap with these four steps and let’s make some noise!  

  1. Wear red on Tuesday April 9 because the gender pay gap leaves women, “in the red” and help us send a united visual message with your selfie or group photo.
  2. Share your “red” solidarity photos on social media and email your images to communications@unifor.org!
  3. Share these Unifor graphics to show how to close the gap on women’s wages. On social media please include the hashtag #EqualPayDay
  4. Contact your provincial and federal representatives to ask that they take meaningful actions to finally end the gender wage gap. Start with this letter demanding pay transparency and action on universal child care.

 

Lisa Kelly  

Director, Women’s Department 

 

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Stop Doug Ford’s attack on public health care.

Read Unifor’s submission to Ontario’s social policy committee to stop Doug Ford’s attack on public health care.

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Unifor Submission to the Standing Committee on Social Policy
Regarding Bill 74, An Act concerning the provision of health care, continuing Ontario Health and making consequential and related amendments and repeals
April 2019

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