Status of Women committee  For all these leaves there has to be a guarantee that the workers' jobs are protected when they go back, because just to have a leave.... We've received calls from workers who left and then they came back and were told, “This is your job now” and they were saying, “That's not the

Status of Women committee  May I answer? I'm sorry, Chair.

Status of Women committee  Concerning the myth that if you increase the minimum wage, prices go up, let me ask you a question. We have two employers. We have a high-end grocery employer and a lower-end grocery employer. They're both unionized. If you go into the lower-end grocery employer, does the ketchup

Status of Women committee  We have lots of members with different abilities. With the collective bargaining agreement comes the protection against discrimination, and it is an added benefit that workers can go to the union in the event that they are having issues with their hours.

Status of Women committee  I can't think of anything off the top of my head.

Status of Women committee  The assumption here is that if we increase the minimum wage then automatically we're going to lose all these jobs. We've seen workplaces cut jobs back to bare bones. I really don't see how, if we're already at bare bones, we're going to lose all of these jobs because of an increa

Status of Women committee  I'm glad you bring that up. The special committee on pay equity had a whole conversation around value. If you look at jobs that women are particularly in, you see it's because, for whatever reason, there's systemic discrimination and they've been considered undervalued. Those are

Status of Women committee  We've also seen situations in other places in the world, in Europe particularly, where they pay much higher than a minimum wage and their economies are still moving. Did you want to comment?

Status of Women committee  In my role as director in Ontario, we receive calls daily, especially from women trying to improve their working conditions by wanting to join a union. A lot of those women are in precarious work but are working two or three jobs because minimum wage just isn't cutting it. An inc

Status of Women committee  We use the $15 statistic because it's available, but we are actually requesting a living wage. It would be different in different places, but it's whatever the markers are that would make it comfortable for workers to be able to survive above poverty in their provinces.

Status of Women committee  Recent research in the STEM industries continues to show that there is an incredible amount of discrimination towards women. Even though women graduate more than young men from universities in the STEM fields, they are still disproportionately not in those fields. There is a syst

Status of Women committee  Thank you. On behalf of the members of UFCW Canada, we welcome the opportunity to make recommendations to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women on how to improve women's economic security and ensure the equal participation of women in the Canadian economy. UFCW Canada