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SUMMARY:May Day phone zap for Paid Sick Leave and $15/hour!
DESCRIPTION:Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/122441853207642/ \n\n\n\nJoin the Fight for $15 and Fairness on zoom on May Day as we do a phone zap for a $15 minimum wage and employer-paid paid sick days for all workers. May Day is International Workers’ Day\, and we’re going to honour this history by carrying on the struggle for better wages and working conditions for all workers. \n\n\n\nOn May Day\, join us in calling provincial politicians to demand ten employer-paid sick days for all workers\, and a $15 minimum wage. \n\n\n\nHere is a loose script that you can follow in calling or emailing politicians. Feel free to put your own unique spin on it! \n\n\n\nHello\, my name is ________ and I live ________. \n\n\n\nI’m calling because I am very frustrated that your government has not already implemented ten paid sick days and a $15 minimum wage for all workers. \n\n\n\nWhether it is workers in part-time employment trying to string together multiple jobs in order to make ends meet and accidentally spreading COVID-19\, or workers without paid sick days who can’t stay home from work at the first sign of symptoms because they can’t afford to lose pay\, fair wages and paid sick days must be central in curbing COVID now and recovering from it. \n\n\n\nThe evidence shows paid sick days are effective at curbing transmission of infectious disease\, including COVID-19. \n\n\n\n• Yet\, 58% of workers across Canada have no paid sick days\, and that jumps to over 70% of low-income workers \n\n\n\n• Even 75% of workers in the service sector\, including food services\, and 50% in health & social services sectors where the risk of exposure is highest\, have no paid sick days. \n\n\n\n• No one should have to choose between staying home sick & paying the bills \n\n\n\n• Black\, Indigenous\, and workers of colour are over-represented in low-wage\, frontline work & are most at risk of becoming infected \n\n\n\n• We hear a lot about thanking essential workers\, but why is the government not protecting them with paid sick days? \n\n\n\nThe CRSB has been widely criticized as inadequate to meeting the challenges presented by COVID-19. Ten employer-paid sick days a year are needed to ensure that no worker experiences a disruption in their pay by staying home when sick. \n\n\n\nI’m calling on you to use the substantial power that you have to make paid sick leave and a $15 minimum wage a reality for Nova Scotians now. \n\n\n\nThank you. \n\n\n\nContact Information: \n\n\n\nCall Iain Rankin\, Premier: \n\n\n\n902-404-7036 \n\n\n\nEmail: info@iainrankin.ca \n\n\n\nCall Lena Metlege\, Minister of Labour and Advanced Education \n\n\n\n902-455-1610 \n\n\n\nEmail: lena@metlegediab.ca \n\n\n\nCall Zach Churchill\, Minister of Health and Wellness \n\n\n\nPhone: 902-742-4444 \n\n\n\nEmail: ca@zachchurchill.com
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/may-day-protest-for-paid-sick-leave-and-15-hour/
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SUMMARY:The 4th Annual Critical Indigenous\, Race and Feminist Studies Student Conference – Precarity of Racialized Students’ Labour
DESCRIPTION:Saturday May 1\, 2021 from 1pm to 5:30pm ASTConference KeynoteHarsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver\, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She is the Executive Director of The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. Walia has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice\, feminist\, anti-racist\, Indigenous solidarity\, anti-capitalist\, Palestinian liberation\, and anti-imperialist movements for over a decade. She is formally trained in law\, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013)\, and Border and Rule (2021).Panel: Labour Precarity on Racialized Students’ Well-Being (Panelists: Tina Renier\, Shreetee Appadu\, Fallen Matthews and Sahana Kanabar)Conference Registration required by April 28 2021: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/148423774505 \n\n\n\nUnceded Mi’kmaq TerritoryFree Conference!Conference Organizers: Racialized Students Academic NetworkConference Sponsors: Saint Mary’s University\, Social Justice & Community Studies\, Women & Gender Studies\, Anthropology\, Atlantic Canada Studies\, International Development Studies\, NSPIRGFor more information: cirfsconference@gmail.com
URL:https://nsadvocate.org/event/the-4th-annual-critical-indigenous-race-and-feminist-studies-student-conference-precarity-of-racialized-students-labour/
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