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Union communicator focused on healthcare and organizing, occasional ski patroller, recovering journalist, parent. Member of CSU and CUPE 79, former member of CUPE 3904. Often at Bluesky.
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Help custodians, caretakers, foodservice workers, transespeople, and library, classroom and lab technicians at Queen's #University in #Kingston, #Ontario get a fair contract before their Feb. 3 deadline:
A clean, safe campus with high-quality services for staff and students
Five groups of workers at Queen’s University are struggling to get their employer to address concerns including the cost-of-living crisis, understaffing and job stability. The workers are members of five bargaining units in CUPE locals 229, 254 and 1302 – approximately 1000 workers including library workers, tradespeople, classroom and laboratory technicians, and custodians and caretakers, as well as foodservice workers employed under a Queen’s University contract with Aramark. Waged workers at the university have seen their pay drop 11-15% below inflation in recent years and many are working second jobs just to pay the rent and feed their families. At the same time, senior university administrators and others making more than $100,000 a year took home an average of 8.9% more last year alone.
Saw this over on BlueSky. A simple protest game someone made for folks in #Ontario. How long can you last without #bikelanes?
I got doored after 38 seconds.
In one of the stranger labour stories of the day: NYT Tech Guild ends strike with no collective agreement.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/24294023/new-york-times-tech-workers-strike-end
Strikes need to get more creative in this day and age, and the Times Tech Workers Guild is stepping up its game:
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/6/24289937/nyt-tech-workers-strike-games-wordle
Bigger, faster roads with no protections for pedestrians or cyclists. This is the foundation of Doug Ford's re-election campaign. And stories like this, which are certainly not anomalies, are the result of such policies.
Ontarians: Please call or email your MPP and encourage them to support Bill 222, the Heat Stress Act, introduced today by MPP Peter Tabuns. This is an important change to the OHSA, particularly as
becomes more acute.
https://www.ola.org/en/legislative-business/bills/parliament-43/session-1/bill-222
Newly released list of 34 proposals for #Ontario Place redevelopment reveals for the first time what the Ford government passed over to give the contract to an Austrian multinational. These include three local spa companies, some theme park developers (including a proposal that would have preserved the unique architecture) and First Nations.
Story includes info from documents obtained by NDP, who are calling for investigation into Therme receiving special treatment.
AI6YR BenCBC: Various breads and buns recalled due to pieces of metal: CFIA
"The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall for several brands of bread and buns due to pieces of metal in the products.
The affected goods were sold in Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador.
A total of 37 products were recalled, including from the brands Country Harvest, D'Italiano, Great Value, No Name and Wonder. "
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bread-recall-metal-1.7375175
No results yet, but still liking seeing "Anthony Furey: 0%"