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Solidarity rally for Telus call centre workers fighting forced relocation
Members of the labour movement will attend a July 27 rally to support USW Local 1944, employees of Telus, in their struggle against office closures.
It’s theft! The gender pay gap takes money out of women’s pockets
Starting in April each year, we mark Equal Pay Day. It’s a time for our union to take stock of what we’ve done – and what we still need to do – to advance women’s economic equality.
That’s because Equal Pay Day shows how many extra days into 2024 it takes the average Canadian woman to earn as much as the average man earned in the twelve months of 2023. She had to work 472 days to the average man’s 365 to earn the same pay. In other words, about 30% less. And that’s just an average:
And what makes it worse is that the gender pay gap exists for no good or scientific reason. Women are paid less on average purely because of historic and continuing discrimination. Women’s jobs and women’s lives are undervalued.
We can all help close the gender pay gap. We can take concrete steps to close it at the bargaining table. We can enforce the Pay Equity Act in our federally-regulated sectors and in provinces with proactive legislation. We help close the gender pay gap at the ballot box by supporting parties who will increase the minimum wage, bring in $10-a-day child care, or make it easier to join a union.
Let’s turn up the pressure on employers and governments to end the blatant robbery of women’s wages. Otherwise, we leave money in the employers’ hands for no good reason.
In solidarity,
Marty Warren
USW National Director
Scott Lunny
USW District 3 Director (Western Canada and the Territories)
Dominic Lemieux
USW District 5 Director (Québec)
Myles Sullivan
USW District 6 Director (Ontario and Atlantic Canada)
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