Social Justice Issues and Justice Janitors

immigration reform: By incorporating unions and community groups to link workers’ rights to other social justice issues like immigration reform, the J4J campaign piloted a model of organizing that is being replicated by fast food workers and other broad-based campaigns, like Ontario fight for 15 and fairness, according to Rabble. This weekend, Ottawa janitors, members of SEIU Local 2, are launching their own ‘J4J’ campaign to demand a living wage and medical benefit from their employer. Initiated by SEIU in Los Angeles, Justice for Janitors is both a union drive and movement that has spread across the US and Canada. With "One Industry, One Union, One Contract" serving as both a campaign slogan and an organizing strategy, the J4J approach offers a lot of lessons for supporting a growing workforce of precarious workers. The goal of these Changing Workplace Review hearings is to help lawmakers determine what changes need to be made to the Employment Standards Act to better protect workers in 'non-standard' jobs. And with that, here is this week labour roundup! In Ontario, precarious workers will have the opportunity to voice their concerns in a series of public consultations held by the Ministry of Labour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.