If Doug Ford is really ‘working for workers,’ his government needs to offer more than slogans. He can start by repealing Bill 124 and implementing permanent paid sick days. Opinion by Pattycoates
In the lead-up to Ontario’s provincial election, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives worked hard to shift the narrative about their party’s priorities. Despite the Ford government’s record of favouring private over public, and corporations over small businesses, they repeated the slogan that they were “working for workers” until blue in the face.
Ford’s PCs must implement permanent, adequate employer-paid sick days. Health-care providers and workers’ advocates have long called for 10 permanent, employer-paid sick days. Recently, the Decent Work and Health Network re-upped this call with anPaid sick days are a common-sense measure to keep our communities and workplaces safe, especially now as the
, including those on the front lines of the pandemic. As well as infringing on workers’ right to free and fair collective bargaining, the one per cent wage cap it instituted is hitting public sector workers even harder as cost-of-living skyrockets. In fact, as inflation reaches 7.7 per cent, these workers are essentially facing a wage cut.
Ford’s PCs must improve access to a union. Right now, too many workers are struggling to make ends meet. Unionized jobs increase access to decent work and better, safer working conditions. Introducing card-check certification would help address the barriers workers face when trying to access a union. It is a one-step process that allows workers to sign authorization cards to form a union if the majority of workers in a workplace sign up.
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