Save Our Severance
UPDATE! - CAW reacts to Ontario budget announcement
UPDATE! - Workers speak out on severance (Click here for online videos)
UPDATE! - CAW Local 195 Members Ratify Agreement at Windsor Parts Makers
As more and more Ontario workers lose their jobs, far too many are also experiencing the tragedy of being denied their severance and other monies owed to them by their employer.
Too many workers have had to take drastic action, whether through plant occupations or blockades, to get their wages, severance and termination pay. As the current recession deepens, more workers will face bankrupt and insolvent businesses as well as more runaway employers.
The McGuinty government has acknowledged that more needs to be done to protect workers from failed employers, but has yet to commit to protect Ontario's most vulnerable workers.
The CAW is calling on the government to develop a provincial wage earner protection program, that is integrated with the existing federal initiative, applies to all severance and separation monies owed, provides significant additional protection on top of the federal program and applies to all insolvencies and 'run away' employers.
GET INVOLVED! TAKE ACTION NOW!
- Send a letter to Ontario Minister of Labour Peter Fonseca
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Save the Federal Gun Registry! Say NO to Bill C-391
The CAW has joined with hundrds of thousands of Canadians aross this country calling on MPs to vote NO when Bill C-391 returns for third and final reading in Parliament in the coming month. Bill C-391 is a Conservative-lead private members bill intended to dismantle Canada's long gun registry - the existing government program that administers the registration of rifles and shotguns.
It's devastating that the Conservative government is trying to dismantle the national gun registry, with the help of members of the NDP and Liberal parties.
