[TURC] Ontario Changing Workplaces Review

From: Jim Stanford <Jim.Stanford@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "turc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <turc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 03:24:09 +0000

Hi Friends

The Ontario government has sponsored a Changing Workplaces review to consider
the causes and consequences of precarious work, and possible responses to it
(in the realms of both employment standards and labour relations).

Unifor has submitted a very comprehensive and ambitious brief to the process.
It is available here, along with various shorter companion materials:

http://www.unifor.org/en/take-action/campaigns/workplace-changes

Some of the key features of Unifor's brief include:

· An overview of precarious work and its effects.

· 43 different recommendations covering reforms to both employment
standards and labour relations rules.

· A far-reaching proposal to establish sector-based benchmarks and
bargaining structures for industries which face particularly precarious or
unstable employment relationships.

· An innovative proposal to enshrine rights to collective action on the
part of non-unionized workers.

· Another proposal to strengthen successor rights in contract work
situations (forestalling the "contract flipping" that has had such damaging
effects on organizing efforts).

· A chapter marshalling Canadian and international evidence to show
that strengthening employment standards is not associated with investment
flight, job loss, and poor economic performance.

We are optimistic, given political conditions, that some reforms in this area
can be won from the Ontario government, and also that similar campaigns can
make progress in other provinces (such as Alberta, where the new government
will undertake an ambitious labour law review in coming years). Our Ontario
local activists are gearing up for a major lobbying effort around these issues
in coming months.

Feedback and ideas on this material are most welcome!
Thanks in advance,

Jim Stanford
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