Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL)

07/24/2025

OFL Exective Vice-President JackieTaylor OFL joined CUPE Ontario 5525 members at the picket line as they begin their 9th on strike at Villa Colombo Homes for the Aged!

07/24/2025

Our solidarity made a difference. Jay Naidoo was informed the Canadian government process was now underway to issue a visa after being denied a visa earlier this year.

Lucie Pagé’s passionate Facebook post rang the alarm and ignited trade unionists to launch this campaign, for which Jay Naidoo has expressed his gratitude:

"To my fellow Canadian trade union colleagues, I offer my deepest gratitude for your powerful show of solidarity in supporting the campaign affirming the right of Canadian citizens to be united with their families and to access visas and permanent residency.""

More: https://ofl.ca/we-thank-you-for-your-solidarity-with-jay-naidoo/

07/24/2025

The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) proudly endorses Bill 43, the Consent Awareness Week Act. This legislation is a vital and overdue step in the fight to end gender-based violence in Ontario. Survivors, students, workers, and communities have been calling for meaningful action and this bill is a clear step forward.

More: https://ofl.ca/the-ofl-endorses-bill-43/
Ontario NDP Peggy Sattler

The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) proudly endorses Bill 43, the Consent Awareness Week Act. This...

07/23/2025

Labour Day is a day to remember that nothing was given, everything was won. It marks the power of workers to disrupt, to demand, and to build a world that puts workers before profit. Join us at a labour day event

Find a labour day event near you- https://ofl.ca/event/labour-day-2025-ontario-events/

07/23/2025

Check out the latest issue of the PSAC Ontario Council newsletter online here:https://ontario.psac.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/July-2025-Newsletter.pdf

07/23/2025

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🚨Policing-Free Schools, the organizational lead of the Provincial Campaign for a Policing-Free Schools Ontario will be hosting a press conference at Queens Park along with supporters on Thursday, July 31st, 2025 at 11am demanding ‘fund our schools not policing-in-schools’ and we will be launching the provincial back-to-school initiatives and upcoming actions against Bill 33 and towards a

🔥JOIN US IF YOU CAN!

⚠️PRESS CONFERENCE: The Provincial Campaign for a Policing-Free Schools Ontario & supporters demand: Fund our schools not policing-in-schools

🗓️⏰WHEN: 11am, Thursday July 31st, 2025

📍WHERE: South Lawn, Queens Park, 111 Wellesley St W, Toronto, ON M7A 1A2

⁉️WHY: Bill 33 is a proposed sweeping legislation, a power grab that ultimately mandates police-in-school programs, namely the School Resource Officer program and policing-in-schools across the province of Ontario. While simultaneously, the Ford Government has been funneling millions of dollars into policing-in-schools including police-in-school programs and technological surveillance in schooling spaces. Rather than addressing the root causes, the Ford Government chooses to siphon funds out of our schools and communities and pour tax-dollars into harmful non-evidence based carceral measures. Bill 33 is a distraction from what the real issue is, a chronically underfunded public education system and deteriorating public community-based supports.

🔥Information on speakers coming soon!

07/23/2025

Unsafe staffing leads to higher mortality rates, more readmissions and longer hospital stays, driving up health care costs and costing thousands of lives per year. Ahead of the next Council of the Federation, tell your premier there are no shortcuts to patient safety: https://win.newmode.net/cfnu/noshortcutstopatientsafety-2025

07/23/2025

Today, as premiers from across the country met for the Council of the Federation, OPSEU/SEFPO members joined the Canadian Health Coalition, fellow unions and community allies to rally to stand up for public health care. United in solidarity we sent a powerful message: this is OUR public health care system – and we will never stop fighting to protect it. We will continue to push back against the Ford Government's relentless push to privatize Ontario’s public health care system. And with Mark Carney's track record of putting profits over people, we must hold our federal politicians accountable as well.

07/22/2025

Today, OFL Executive Vice-President Jackie Taylor joined labour allies at Ontario Health Coalition ’s Rally and Car Cavalcade at the Council of the Federation.

“We’re in a crisis manufactured by this government - and it’s workers, patients, and communities who are paying the price. Health care is a right, not a revenue stream. We’re here to fight for a fully funded, fully public system, no matter what.”
- JackieTaylor OFL

07/22/2025

As premiers meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney, one thing must stay on the agenda: health care.

Nurses and health care workers are still stretched thin. We know the solutions:
✔️ Nurse-patient ratios
✔️ Workforce planning
✔️ Data-driven decisions

But none of it works without proper funding. This is no time to cut federal health care transfers.

Tell Prime Minister Carney: protect public health care!
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-cuts-to-federal-health-care-funding?source=direct_link&link_id=2&can_id=ecbc6473304f2586ba663089f9a70525&email_referrer=email_2820906&email_subject=urgent-call-to-action-nil-protect-federal-health-care-funding-appel-urgent-_-passer-_-laction-prot_geons-le-financement-f_d_ral-pour-les-soins-de-sant_
Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions

07/22/2025

Today, B.C. Premier David Eby met with the Federation of Labour Presidents Committee to discuss the impact of tariffs on workers across the country, how premiers are responding — and how the labour movement is taking united action to defend jobs and show leadership where provincial governments fall short.


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07/22/2025

Since the launch of ONA's new digital publication, members have found many ways to embrace F-Word.

“We were so excited about the new digital format ONA has chosen [to share stories], which was launched at the Provincial Leadership Meeting in April,” explains ONA124 Local Coordinator Donna Oliver.

“During our Nursing Week dinner, ONA124 decided that we would set up a photobooth. I made a “My F-Word is” sign, we had some premade bristol boards with popular words from the F-Word t-shirt, and some blank boards so that members could write their own f-words.”

Members were so engaged in this team-building exercise that it didn’t stop there!

Read the full story: https://onamag.org/fight/on-the-ground/here-there-everywhere-an-f-word/