Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts

Friday, May 29, 2009

Temporary Workers Employment Community Forum

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
LEARN YOUR RIGHTS
TEMPORARY WORKERS COMMUNITY FORUM
Thursday June 4th
7PM to 9PM
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE
14 Henry Street
Brantford, Ontario
Parking Available at YES CHURCH
519 759 4775
tempworkinbrant@gmail.com
Presentations by
Deena, Workers Action Centre, Toronto
Eduardo, Immigrant Settlement Worker, Brantford
Ian, Community Legal Clinic, Brantford
Marc, The Roundtable on Poverty, Brantford
Brian, STEELWORKERS ACTION CENTRE
UPDATED*** Stephanie, Canadian Labour Congress

Thursday, May 7, 2009

Ontario Conservatives Supporting Temporary Employment Agencies

The following is a list of Conservative MPPs who voted against Bill 139 and supported the Temporary Employment Agencies.
Arnott, Ted
Bailey, Robert
Chudleigh, Ted
Dunlop, Garfield
Hardeman, Ernie
Jones, Sylvia
Munro, Julia
O'Toole, John
Runciman, Robert
W.Savoline, Joyce
Shurman, Peter
Witmer, Elizabeth
Yakabuski, John

When it comes to your lively hood, you can be certain that the Ontario Conservatives will work hand in hand with http://www.acsess.org/ (The temporary employment agencies lobby group)

Monday, April 6, 2009

Bill 139 Transcripts

If you wish to follow the debate on Temp agencies. Here is a link to the presenters both For Bill 139 and those against Bill 139. These are the presentations from March 25th.

http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/committee-proceedings/committee_transcripts_details.do?locale=en&Date=2009-03-25&ParlCommID=8860&BillID=2132&Business=

I suggest you read the statements of the Temp Agencies. They made many many presentations.

Friday, February 13, 2009

Minimum Wage

http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1433624
Economic woes won't stop minimum wage hike
By VINCENT BALL, EXPOSITOR STAFF


HELP LOCAL ECONOMY
Brian Van Tilborg, co-ordinator of the Genfast Workers' Adjustment Centre and a former NDP candidate in Brant, said the increase is timely.
"It's one of the better programs we have to help the local economy," Van Tilborg said. "It puts more money into the hands of those who need it and these are the people who spend their money locally.
"They buy their groceries, clothing and everything else locally. They're not heading out of town and out of the country on trips."
He believes minimum wage increases are more likely to create jobs than to kill them.
"Stock market crashes and poor industrial policies are what kills jobs. Not minimum wage increases," Van Tilborg said. "The fact is, we've had minimum wages for years and it has never caused job losses like a lot of people like to think."

Friday, October 26, 2007

Letter to the Editor Part 2

Mark Lundgrens Letter to the editor appeared today, along with AL's in the Brantford Expositor.

As a former GenFast worker of nearly 25 years, I was appalled to learn that the American owner, MNP Corporation which declared bankruptcy six months earlier, was allowed not only to cross our borders into Ontario but also to spend enormous amounts of money to buy back the equipment it walked away from at below market prices, while we former workers are unable to receive any sort of severance pay that we are legally entitled to.

If MNP had this money to spend on our equipment, then my question is why were these people not forced to pay their workers first?

Why are our elected politicians (Dave Levac and his wimpy party) not creating laws that will stop this sort of rape and pillage of our honest and hard-working people of Ontario? There are many people other than GenFast workers in our immediate area who are experiencing the same sort of problems I am going through. I hope things work out for them and their families.
I truly believe, though, that this type of robbery is going to keep happening until we finally elect people who truly care about the people they represent.
My advice to anyone now working for companies that are using our weak laws to declare bankruptcy and move to the sunny south, chain yourselves to your machines, keep fighting for your benefits and money you are legally entitled to.

Don't be intimidated by these narrow-minded owners and their highly paid legal staff. Don't believe it when they say you will be given what you are entitled to until you finally receive what you are in fact entitled too.

Mark Lundgren
Brantford

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Letter to the Editor

The Following Letter to the editor was sent into the Brantford Expositor earlier this week.

Dear Editor

In last fridays edition, the Expositor ran a picture of the equipment being auctioned off at the Genfast Manufacturing Bankruptcy sale.
My former coworkers were present at this auction and they have expressed to me their outrage. It is criminal that officials from our parent company are allowed to return to Ontario. These are the same officials who orchestrated the bankruptcy and fled the country while Genfast was still in operation. How is it that when a company closes shop and has no money to pay it's workforce, they can sweep back into Brantford and spend millions of dollars. In just a few short hours these morally challenged members of the human race, purchased the very equipment and supplies they need to further their operations outside of Ontario.
All of this is legal and accepted, without question by our Provincial and Federal Government.

Al Magill

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Going to school?

I received an email from Gib Love the other day informing me that Danjay Training Solutions has closed their doors. I recently finished my course in Industrial Robotics Programming and fortunately I have my certificate, for what it's worth. Gib on the other hand isn't finished his course and now he will not be able to. The money is all paid up front and so I wonder what happens now. Will manpower enable these students to finish their studies at another school?
I am, as most know, somewhat disappointed with what my tax dollars and 24+ years of payments into the E.I. system actually get me. We are part of the manufacturing segment, which the government seems to have abandoned. Many of us. that have lost our jobs in the recent American Jihad, against Canadian unions, are in fact highly skilled, in non-portable, job specific areas, but very capable of being retrained and reinserted, into the labour pool, in new occupations. unfortunately your tax dollars get you minimum training, for a entry level position, in a field requiring 12 to 20 weeks training. In other words, a minimum wage occupation. A brother or sister in their early fifties, with thirty years or more of work behind them, supporting the system, deserves more respect than this.
Service Canada is supporting a system in Brantford, that is leaching tax dollars away from any real possibility, of retraining proven, productive, citizens. Instead the system supports ripoffs like Danjay and classes in "knowing your color" which prepare you for the local sweat shops in the temp agency system.
I find myself speechless at the ability of Service Canada and the local Liberal politicians to continue to collect their wages while doing nothing of significance in this area. They cannot plead ignorance. I feel that they should resign and try out E.I. for a while.

later..........................dave