The OFL is asking us to show support- a few of our DL78 staff sent pictures showing their support- make sure to post your selfies too! |
On Friday, August 25, join the Solidarity Selfie Day Action, and show your support for striking public health nurses in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties.
Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Download or display this placard and take a selfie holding the placard.
Step 2: Post the selfie on your social media. Here’s a sample caption:
I support public health nurses & their fight for decent wages, a fair contract & good public health services. Show your support by signing here: https://bit.ly/hpecnurses @OntarioNurses @OFlabour #SupportNurses #onhealth #onlab #onpoli #justice4workers
Step 3: Tag your friends and encourage them to post their own selfie.
Not sure what a solidarity selfie looks like? Click here for some inspiration.
This online action is in support of the community solidarity rally taking place on August 25 at 12 PM at the Belleville picket line. Click here to join a car caravan from Toronto to the rally.
Background
Fifty public health nurses in Hastings and Prince Edward Counties started strike action on Monday, August 21. Read more about the strike here.
These workers, members of ONA Local 31, provide vital health care to over 200,000 people in the region, but they’ve been without a contract since December 2022.
They are fighting for decent wages, a fair contract, and good public health services for their community.
For more info, visit the Ontario Nurses’ Association.
Labour Day is the first Monday in September; this day was made a Canada Wide Statutory holiday in 1894. The history of this day goes back to the First “workers rally” during the Victorian time. There were Speeches, games, picnics, and parades.
The holiday was to show solidarity and give a sense of belonging to the working class during a time of industrialization. The unions have contributed so much to our way of living, creating a 40-hour work week, the right to fair wages, safe working conditions, the creation of WSIB and so much more.
Unfortunately, since the Second World War, less and less people participate in the labour day festivities and the origins and meaning are being forgotten by so many. It has become a day off work and that is all, but there are still parades and activities happening.
The IAM encourages you to bring family and friends to watch or participate in your local parades and activities and to teach those around you about the meaning and history of the day, and of the union.
See link below for an event near you.
Labour Day Events 2023 | Canadian Labour Congress
Remember to send pics of IAM members participating in events across the country
Note: This is an evolving list. Please check event websites for full details.
Event information is not always available in both official languages.
IAM Members and Representatives at the CUPE 905 rally for striking BWG Public Library workers in Bradford to support workers fighting for a new contract. The workers are now in their 4th week of a strike for a $1.35/hour raise.
Rallying to show City Council that workers stand united and we won’t back down until we get a fair contract.
CUPE 905 support staff are IAM Members of IAM local 901
#solidarity
Ontario workers are struggling. They’re struggling to pay for groceries, cover transportation costs, and make rent or mortgage payments.
Workers need a real plan to improve our working and living conditions. Instead, Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Development, Monte McNaughton continues to repeat the slogan “working for workers”, until he’s blue in the face.
But, “working for workers” means taking action, not empty words. It means:
- Introducing card check certification
- Access to first-contract arbitration
- Extending successor rights to all contracted services
- Legislating anti-scab laws
- Guaranteeing equal rights for migrant, undocumented, and gig workers
- The permanent repeal of Bill 124
- A $20 minimum wage
- 10 permanent paid sick days
- Support for injured and ill workers
- Ending the misclassification of gig workers
Send a tweet to tell Monte McNaughton what ‘working for workers’ really means.
Tell McNaughton: Enough is Enough! | The Ontario Federation of Labour
Courtesy of OFL.ca
Join your Union Family on Labour Day and come walk in the Parade! Bring your co-workers and family!
Several DL78 Members were at the Winipisinger Center last week for Leadership One Training. Two sisters from 1922 (pictured here with some Canadian IAM Brothers) And a sister from 1231. They also got to visit Head Quarter while there.
Attention Nursing Brothers, Sisters and Siblings!
There are changes happening to the Nursing Scope of Practice from the College of Nurses. These changes will take effect on July 1, 2023. Please use the link below to read up on these changes.
https://www.cno.org/globalassets/docs/prac/49041-scope-of-practice.pdf
Thank you from the DL78 for your hard work and dedication to your profession!
IAM members from North America recently joined together at the William Winpisinger Education and Technology Center (W3) in Hollywood, MD. Their mission was to build on the resolution passed during the 40th IAM Grand Lodge Convention in 2022. Resolution 1 created the IAM Committee on the Future (COTF). The COTF committee was established to listen to IAM members and propose new ideas to help grow our union and develop the next generation of IAM leaders and activists. The committee members, who equally represent the Local, District, Territorial, and Grand Lodge levels of our union, will travel to locals and districts in every corner of North America to hear from the membership and document their suggestions and concerns. There are two meetings in the Toronto Ontario area on Wednesday June 28.
If you are planning on attending one of these two meetings please let the contacts listed below know.
10am-noon LL 2323 2580 Drew Road Mississauga, ON L4T 3M5
Vic Seebalek- phone: 416-816-9965
2pm-4pm District 78 557 Dixon Road, Unit 102 Toronto, Ontario M9W 6K1
DL78 office- 416-225-9003
For More information Committee On The Future | (iamcotf.org)
At the June DL78 Meeting there was a presentation made.
With Sister Kim Valliere’s move from DL78 Directing Business Rep to Grand Lodge Rep, the DL78 gave her a small token of appreciation and congratulations.
