As part of our work in solidarity with the broader Labour Movement, we are happy to help boost campaigns from our partners in labour.
Heat Stress Campaign
The OFL is re-invigorating its Heat Stress Campaign. This is an important initiative to push the government to increase protections for workers who face high temperatures in their workplaces.
Check out the petition and heat stress resources here.
Extreme heat in the workplace injures, sickens, and even kills workers. Education workers and students often suffer stifling heat in portables. Restaurant workers sweat it out in brutally hot kitchens. Migrant farm workers toil in the blistering sun with few protections.
Ontario workers in all sectors need legislation for heat limits in the workplace and genuine policy responses to the climate crisis by municipal, provincial, and federal governments. Heat stress will only intensify as our planet heats up, creating a workplace crisis within a climate crisis.
The OFL is calling on the government to immediately implement legislation, including by amending the Occupational Health and Safety Act, to provide increased protections for workers against heat stress, ensuring that employers develop policies and programs to address heat stress in the workplace and train their workers (including supervisors) to recognize and respond to the symptoms and illnesses associated with exposure to heat.
Check out the OFL’s website for the petition and for tools and educational resources around heat stress.
All Our for Ontario Campaign: Support 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities
The OFL is asking allies to give their support by signing a petition asking the government to expand access to protections for 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities.
The petition is calling on the government to invest in and improve access to all levels of healthcare for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth, adults, and seniors, including racialized and indigenous peoples; increase funding for 2SLGBTQIA+ inclusive transitional and supportive housing, especially for racialized and indigenous youth, seniors, and people facing violence and/or housing insecurity; and a number of other supports for 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities.
Please consider downloading the petition and adding your name in support.
