Tom Zizys rightly notes that Ontario has pursued a “local food policy” aimed at promoting healthy, locally sourced food. But, for over fifty years, that “local” food has been produced by racialized workers from the Global South who, by law, work under restrictions that would be impossible to impose on local workers. Rather than importing […]
Equal Pay Day: Show us the money
Today – 10 April 2018 – is Equal Pay Day. Today marks the size of the gender pay gap. It reflects how far women on average need to work into the new year to earn what men earned by 31 December last year. The latest Census data show that Indigenous women in Ontario face a […]
#16Days of Activism: Addressing gender-based violence helps close the gender pay gap
This year was a game changer. At least it can be if we continue to demand real change. In 2017, women changed the political landscape. Individually and collectively, women asserted their equality rights by publicly naming, shaming and demanding accountability for sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace. As we mark the 16 Days […]
Speaker’s Corner: Pay transparency laws needed
It’s been thirty years since Ontario adopted its then world-leading pay equity law to end systemic sex discrimination in pay. But three decades later, the gender pay gap remains a human rights crisis that impoverishes women in Ontario and across Canada. Now, as frustration mounts, both workers and investors are calling for pay transparency laws […]
Equal Pay Day: Standing Up for Equality
By Jan Borowy & Fay Faraday In the 1970s and ’80s, women in the labour movement fought to end pay discrimination and close the gender pay gap. Still, today, thousands of women in their unions and community organizations find the fight for pay equity and women’s economic equality is far from over. Nancy John, president […]