"Equal pay for equal work is the law, and it needs to stay that way, that is not a political opinion, it is a fact."
WOODSTOCK - Front Line College workers across the Province are holding a Day of Action today with the Fight for $15 and Fairness Campaign.
Today also marks the 1 year anniversary of the historic College Faculty Strike. Secretary for OPSEU Local 110, the union for Fanshawe College Whitney Hoth says they will have a table set up at the Fanshawe Campus in London until 3:00 p.m. today.
"Well most of the College Campuses have information tables set up today, that have information concerning the cancellation of the task force, which was one of the promised outcomes of the strike last year."
On his first day in office, Doug Ford cancelled the College Task Force which was responsible for a joint system review. OPSEU President Warren "Smokey" Thomas says now Ford is threatening to repeal the law that enforces workers’ rights including equal pay for equal work.
"Bill 148 has already begun to improve the lives of workers across the college system. You can't trust college management to do the right thing: It takes the law and a union to hold employers to account."
Thomas says they are defending the rights of workers.
"Equal pay for equal work is the law, and it needs to stay that way, that is not a political opinion, it is a fact. And OPSEU members have the right to say so. We are defending the rights of workers as upheld in Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, including a $15 dollar minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, and sick leave for temporary and contract workers. If the colleges want to prohibit workers from speaking up about our rights, they have to know they have all of OPSEU to deal with."
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