Articles by Pam Frache
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Sep 11, 2017: Beyond Bill 148: to beat the Big Business lobby we need to make the Fight $15 and Fairness an election issueSince Bill 148, the Fair Wages, Better Workplaces Act, was first announced in May, there has been an intense ideological...
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Aug 31, 2017: Teamsters Local 419: On strike for AT LEAST $15 and FairnessOn August 23, the more than 700 members of Teamsters Local 419 voted over 98% to reject the latest contract...
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Aug 05, 2017: The Fight for $15 & Fairness isn’t over. It’s just gearing upBill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, has been referred to the parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance and Economic...
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Apr 16, 2017: The Basic Income debateOn April 13, about 300 people, all of them united in their desire to improve the well-being of the most...
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Oct 01, 2016: Socialists and the Fight for $15Socialists have an important role to play in building working class solidarity and trying to prevent ideological fault lines from...
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May 25, 2016: The growing fight for $15 & FairnessSince its relatively modest beginnings in the fall of 2012 when a handful of fast food workers in New York...
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Apr 28, 2016: April 14-15: international days of action in the Fight for $15April 14 and 15, 2016 marked a new high point in the Fight for $15 movement in North America and...
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Aug 10, 2015: A $15 federal minimum wage is an election issue. Here's why.There is a growing consensus across Canada -- and indeed across North America -- that all workers deserve at least $15 an hour.
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Mar 29, 2015: Building working-class solidarity: The fight for $15Ontario’s Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage and the Fight for $15 movement in the United States have renewed the...
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Oct 16, 2014: OFL conflict: what's at stake?Conflict has re-emerged within the leadership of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL).
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Aug 08, 2014: Save our public postal servicePostal worker victories In 1965, a strike by inside and outside postal workers paved the way for public sector bargaining...
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Aug 08, 2014: Save our public postal servicePostal worker victories In 1965, a strike by inside and outside postal workers paved the way for public sector bargaining...
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May 22, 2014: UP! Raising minimum wage and defeating Hudak's anti-union agendaOn Wednesday, May 14, Ontario's Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage used the provincial election to re-assert the demand for...
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Jan 17, 2013: Contradictions and capitalist crisis in the Chinese economyThe Shanghai Composite Index rallied in early December when the new leadership of the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership...
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Dec 19, 2012: Showing solidarity with teachers in my neighbourhoodElementary teachers at Toronto’s Pauline Junior Public School were in good spirits today—part of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario‘s...
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Apr 02, 2012: Inside the Ontario Austerity budgetThe Ontario Liberal government has just tabled Ontario’s first serious austerity budget in the post-crisis era.
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Feb 28, 2012: Fight McGuinty's Austerity agendaOn February 15, the much anticipated Drummond Commission issued its 1% solution for the rest of Ontario.
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Nov 21, 2011: Euro crisis: workers vs AusterityFor the past month, all eyes have been fixed on Greece.