Gender Equality Week 2024: Women deserve a better deal
September 23, 2024
Canada’s unions are calling on federal leaders to seize the moment this gender equality week and commit to a better deal for women Large corporations are worsening the affordability crisis for workers and their families, causing the cost of housing, groceries, and other necessities to skyrocket. This crisis hurts everyone, but it’s significantly more challenging for those who already have…
Canada’s unions join #VirtualDayofPink with a renewed call for solidarity against homophobia and transphobia
April 8, 2020
In 2020, we are celebrating International Day of Pink – a day to raise awareness and combat homophobic and transphobic bullying and harassment – in the context of a global pandemic. While many us are making sure that we #stayathome, we still need to be aware of the threat of homophobic and transphobic violence that persists online, at home, and…
Women in Canada are #donewaiting for economic justice
March 7, 2018
This International Women’s Day, Canada’s unions are launching a campaign with a powerful message for the federal government: women in Canada are #donewaiting for economic justice and want action, not rhetoric. The CLC’s #donewaiting campaign outlines concrete ways the federal government can remove three key barriers to women’s economic justice: wage discrimination, sexual harassment and violence and the child care…