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Jul 16 5 tweets 4 min read
10 paid sick days.

Decent and safe work.

These are our demands for all the time, not just during a pandemic. @fordnation we can’t wish this virus away. People are still getting sick everyday.

Workers need 10 permanent sick days, instead…/1

@fairwagesnow #PaidSickDays
The measly 3 paid sick days introduced during the pandemic will expire July 31.

3 days are not good enough and soon they will be gone.

Time to step up @fordnation

More than 43,500 Cdns have died from this virus and more than 4M Cdns (underestimate) have had the virus. /2
And now we are in middle of a 7th wave

cbc.ca/news/canada/to…

Too many workers still without paid sick days must go to work sick.

How does this make any sense? Right it doesn’t.

/3 #paidsickdays
We are not going away. We will keep demanding, organizing and fighting for workers until we win.

Proud to be part of a union that fights for all workers.

But winning big change takes all of us.

Huge shoutout to the incredible work by @fairwagesnow /4
#justiceforworkers

The grassroots organizing done by @fairwagesnow has led to real change for workers everywhere!

Check out their work here: justice4workers.org

It was great canvassing with you all today.

And remember friends, when we fight, we win.

#paidsickdays

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Jul 17
Not one word. Not one about the real problem. It’s not wages. It’s soaring profits that are the problem. Come on: workers wages have not kept pace and the one chance to catch up and central bankers coaching biz not to raise wages too much! #cdnpoli cbc.ca/news/business/…
In June, @CntrFutureWork warned this would happen. That workers would pay the price for inflation padding corporate profits: centreforfuturework.ca/2022/06/01/bus… And here we are! /2
Canada's central banker:

"As a business, don't plan on the current rate of inflation staying. Don't build that into longer-term contracts. Don't build that into wage contracts. It is going to take some time, but you can be confident that inflation will come down." /3
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Jan 31
As a lifelong trade unionist who has spent a lot of time on picketlines and at protests, it's not lost on any of us how the police have been used to suppress democratic trade union rights and bust strikes /1 #cdnpoli #canlab
Indeed, often police forces are used to enable the transport of scabs across picket lines. In other words they act as a agent to help capitalism suppress working people's legitimate charter right to a union and all that this should entail /2
There are too many examples to cite. Pick a picketline. The Fleck strike of 1978 - a strike of mostly women working in horrific conditions. These women were courageous and their cause just.
riseupfeministarchive.ca/activism/issue… /3
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Jul 28, 2020
Dear Canada:

All eyes should be on Alberta right now.

The UCP govt has declared war on workers rights (Bill 32), on public not-for-profit health care (Bill 30).

And so much more.

Enthralled with American Republicans, Kenney and the UCP are bringing this nastiness north /1
It isn't an incremental attack or a slight erosion of trade union and worker rights. It's a full court press.

Health care and education: important public goods that help share the wealth and give everyone a fighting chance are also getting the Kenney Republican treatment /2
The Alberta Labour Movement (@ABFedLabour) and dozens of civil society organizations are fighting back hard. But friends they need our help.

Check out the AFL's page here: afl.org/defend-worker-…

Take action. Now. /3 BUT also....
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Mar 25, 2020
Some thoughts on Canada's Employment Insurance system.

In the best of times, it's inadequate, failing 100,000s of workers - precarious workers. During a pandemic, it is 10,000x inadequate. It's an example of how eroded safety nets come back to haunt us during tough times.

/1
Some of the troublesome features remaind from the early 1990s when govt, specifically the Chretien/Martin Liberals, hacked away at EI. Unemployed workers were labelled cheats and therefore the system needed harsh penalties to encourage ppl to find work /2
The built-in penalties: waiting periods and reduced benefits. In the early 1990s, govt slashed the benefit rate to 55%. At one point, the benefit rate was as high 75% income replacement. Until governments decided unemployed workers needed to be punished for losing their jobs /2
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May 28, 2019
Things Conservatives get away with.

1. A premier of a province where wildfires are raging runs off to another province to campaign for his federal buddies.

2. That same premier proclaims that he is empowering workers by slashing their wages and overtime pay. /1

#cdnpoli
3. Is this the same kind of empowering process engaged by Doug Ford? You know where firing 3,000 teachers is supposed to make kids more resilient.

4. Saying that a job is the best medicine to combat poverty, while slashing minimum wages.

/2


#cdnpoli
5. Saying they support a free press, while undermining real journalism w/ fake news + their own conservative-created "news" outlet.

6. Raging against taxes, while enjoying their comfy lifestyles.

7. Comparing deficits to the devil, until months before an election. /3

#cdnpoli
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