2020
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Women are Leaving the Workforce amid the Pandemic. What can we do?
December 12, 2020
An unprecedented exodus of women from the workforce is upon us and the pandemic is only partly to blame. The real culprit for this mass departure ...
December 6: Workplace Violence Against Women in Canada Today
December 06, 2020
On December 6, 1989, 14 young women were murdered at Polytechnique Montreal, one of Canada’s most tragic acts of violent misogyny. Every ...
Healing Justice Manifesto for December 6th 2020
December 03, 2020
On December 6th, 1989 I was a new mother. The murders at l'École Polytechnique shook loose a deep despair that surfaces every December. ...
Ending Violence Against Women - Basics for the Workplace
November 24, 2020
Violence against women is everywhere. In the workplace, we see it in certain jokes, “water cooler talk”, information and media we ...
National Housing Day and its Link to Employer Support for Domestic Violence Victims
November 10, 2020
“Why can’t they just leave?”
That’s the default response to a story about a victim enduring domestic violence. Packing ...
Oct 1st 2020 marks the 30th Anniversary of the International Day of Older Persons
September 30, 2020
Thirty years ago, on December 14, 1990, the UN General Assembly made October 1 the International Day of Older Persons. The day was observed for ...
Gender Equality Week: The Inequality of Working from Home
September 25, 2020
Mid-September marks a full six months of quarantine in Ontario as workers who would typically work in an office continue to work from home. Some ...
New Warning Signs for Spotting Abuse & Canadian Labour Laws Supporting Victims
September 02, 2020
Six months into quarantine, many of us fortunate enough to work from home have realized that we took perfunctory office routines for granted. ...
Everything Wrong with Zero Tolerance Policies & Why Progressive Discipline is the Future
August 27, 2020
News stories following athletes accused of domestic violence flow like clockwork: after allegations surface and gain traction, players’ ...
Unifor Women’s Advocates remain active during Covid-19
May 14, 2020
Unifor has a network of over 400 Women’s Advocates across Canada. Our union has negotiated this position into our collective agreements with ...
The value of being prepared
May 11, 2020
The pandemic is teaching us the extraordinary value of preparedness. When the lockdown started in early March, it came as a shock that society ...
National Day of Mourning – Remembering Victims of Workplace Sexual Violence
April 28, 2020
On June 2nd, 1996, sixteen months after she had filed a sexual harassment complaint against him, Theresa Vince was murdered at work by her ...
How Employers Can Help when Home Isn’t Safe: Domestic Violence and COVID-19
March 18, 2020
As the spread of COVID-19 forces Canadians to stay home, people who live with an abusive parent or partner are at increased risk of violence. ...
Bread and Roses – The Unifying Cry for Gender Equality & Worker’s Rights
March 06, 2020
Bread and roses. Historically, they’ve been a commonly used symbol of the women’s workers movement as well as International ...
Impact of Violence on the Workplace - Part 2
January 29, 2020
I thought it would be useful to find numbers on domestic abuse in Canada to give a sense of the scope of the workplace impact. I found, perhaps ...
Impact of Violence on the Workplace - Part 1
January 17, 2020
Trying to avoid spilling my precious morning coffee while lugging the ancient beast of a laptop, I settled awkwardly into a spot at the café ...
Best of 2019 at MIOB
January 16, 2020
This past year has been full of change. The influence of the #MeToo movement in the workplace cannot be downplayed, with many more women feeling ...
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