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Residents of 20 Emerald Street and activist group ACORN are calling on the owners, the property management company and the city to improve conditions at St. Johns Place.
Tenants in a downtown Hamilton neighbourhood are demanding that something be done about their living conditions.
Niagara business operator Damin Starr supports paying his staff a living wage, and has seen the benefits himself.
A rally in support of apartment licensing took place on Tuesday at Hamilton City Hall.
Posted July 19, 2017
Hamilton Tenant Rally on Tuesday July 18th
Hamilton ACORN held a lively and effective tenant action on April 8th, showing tenant across the city that tenants can stand up to slumlords!
Brampton MPP Jagmeet Singh has introduced his private member’s bill created in an attempt to keep a lid on high international money transfer fees.
The Bramalea-Gore-Malton MPP introduced the bill in the Ontario legislature yesterday, where it received first reading.
TORONTO - A mock $10 bill — frozen in a block of ice — was presented to a representative Ontario's Ministry of Labour on Thursday afternoon in protest of the government's minimum wage freeze.
The protest was organized by The Campaign to Raise the Minimum Wage, a coalition of several advocacy groups in Ontario.
Members of the group include Ontario ACORN, Worker's Action Centre, and Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
Unfreeze minimum wage. Increase it to $14 an hour. Then index it to the rate of inflation.
Sounds simple enough.
The only question now is whether the Wynne Liberals will listen to anti-poverty and labour groups or bow to pressure from the business community who say an increase will only lead to cutbacks in the number of minimum wage workers.