OF LABOUR - ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: WORKERS STRIKE BACK 20 17

2 // ONTARIO FEDERATION OF LABOUR – VISION DOCUMENT UNIVERSAL, ACCESSIBLE, AND WELL-FUNDED PUBLIC SERVICES The deregulation of financial districts, the expansion of unfair trade and investment deals, the destabilization of workers’ rights, the erosion of progressive taxation, the retrenchment of welfare state programs, and the privatization of public services have all led to pronounced economic in. [...] That’s why we’re seeing the skyrocketing cost of housing; the increasing inaccessibility of home ownership; the mounting pressure to move to other cities to find housing; a system that massively favours and rewards private landlords and developers; the precarity of renters and tenants; rising personal evictions; the homelessness crisis; and the emergence of tent cities in parks. [...] that provide the public with increased access to community centres, recreational centres, sports and leisure activities, cultural centres, museums and galleries, libraries, and the arts 10 // ONTARIO FEDERATION OF LABOUR – VISION DOCUMENT JUSTICE FOR WORKERS Given growing levels of social and economic inequality in the wake of the pandemic, the need to facilitate unionization is more urgent than e. [...] The reality is that many minimum-wage workers — who Ford once hailed as heroes — put their own health at risk to keep working on the frontlines throughout the height of the pandemic, and they paid the price with thousands of dollars lost for the three-year delay in raising the minimum wage to $15. [...] The future of unionized workers is tied directly to the interests of the entire working class and the communities in which we live and work.