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What’s your top priority for the next Ontario budget?
Ontario has lost about 200,000 jobs since the recession started. Many of the jobs we do have are part-time. Our cities and towns are hurting. Good jobs must be the government’s top priority in Dalton McGuinty’s next budget. Please TELL THE PREMIER and leave a comment below to tell us the challenges your community is facing.
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about 6 months ago
I live and work in a community where 3,000 mining workers and their families have been on strike against Vale INCO for about seven months. The community has lost about 6,000 jobs in about the same time.
What’s holding our community together for the long run is the public sector – its important work and its role in our local economy.
In this global economic battle of the wits between local Sudbury workers, their union, (the Steelworkers) and a foreign-owned power-house, it is the women workers who are holding the finances of many households together. Many of these women are public sector workers – caregivers and teachers, hospital staff and child welfare workers, social workers and community workers. And many work more than one job, without benefits, without supportive daycare for their kids and without job security; with the threat of funding cuts, job loss, wonky schedules, lost work hours, hovering over their heads and hearts.
How wonderful it would be if this social safety net – this net of good jobs with decent wages and working conditions were solid enough for these women to hold their households together, heads held high, hearts unbroken.