OHPE Bulletin 508.2 March 30, 2007 Resource Related to the Feature
Article: Precarious Employment–-Can You Stand The Strain?
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Contents
A Internet
1 Minimum Wage Campaign Websites
2 Forum on Precarious Employment
3 Oh Canada! Too Many Children Live In Poverty For Too Long!
4 Human Rights & the Temp Industry
5 Women and Precarious Work: A Framework for Policy Recommendations
6 Special Forum on Precarious Employment
7 Ten Ways of Seeing Precarious Employment
8 Risk and Opportunity: Creating Options for Vulnerable Workers
B Organizations
1 The North American Alliance for Fair Employment
2 The Alliance on Contingent Employment
3 Workers' Action Centre
4 Income Security Advocacy Centre
5 Recent Print Sources on Precarious Employment
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A Organizations
1 Minimum Wage Capaign Websites
Toronto Labour Council
$10 Minimum Wage Campaign
http://www.labourcouncil.ca
Worker's Action Centre, 2007
Ontario Workers Need A Fair Deal
http://www.workersactioncentre.org/campaigns.html
Both sites link to related events, research, and media coverage.
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2 Forum on Precarious Employment
http://forum.stlc.com/past.php
Precarious Employment: Can You Stand the Strain? was the first in a
series of forums presented with The Toronto Star in its War on Poverty
series. Audio from the conference is available at the above URL via the
St. Lawrence Forum's website.
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3 Oh Canada! Too Many Children Live In Poverty For Too Long!
http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/
From Campaign 2000, this is the 2006 Report Card on Child and Family
Poverty in Canada.
Report Contents
* It's Time to Honour Canada's Commitment to Children
* Child Poverty Rates Vary Across Canada
* Are Some Children More Vulnerable to Poverty?
* How Poor is the Average Low Income Family?
* Is a Job the Best Pathway out of Poverty?
* Government Programs Do Help Reduce Child Poverty
* Is the Gap between Poor Families and Rich Families Widening?
* Early Learning and Child Care: Still Struggling for a Universal
System
* Needed: Sustained Action Against Child Poverty in First Nations
and Aboriginal communities
* Affordable Housing: Still No National Strategy
* Working Together on a Poverty Reduction Strategy for Canada
* How is Canada doing in meeting 1989 unanimous resolution to end
child poverty, and its international commitments including UN Convention
on the Rights of the Child?
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4 Human Rights & the Temp Industry
http://www.workersactioncentre.org/documents/WACTempBrief.pdf
In 2006, the Workers' Action Centre Temp Workers' Committee surveyed and
interviewed temporary workers. Temporary workers reported systemic human
rights violations in the temp industry, as discussed in this report
(link opens PDF file).
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5 Women and Precarious Work: A Framework for Policy Recommendations
http://www.oxfam.ca/news-and-publications/publications-and-reports
This 2005 framework is based on Work of the Women and Work Policy
Working Group and is available for downloading as a PDF file.
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6 Special Forum on Precarious Employment
http://www.yorku.ca/julabour/volume3/index.htm
Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society. Volume 3 Fall 2003.
This online issue focused on precarious employment includes articles,
book reviews, and an overview of the Ray Stevenson Fonds D'archives at
York University.
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7 Ten Ways of Seeing Precarious Employment
http://ttb.on.ca/downloads/Precarious%20Employment.pdf
This 2005 brochure is a report of the Community University Research
Alliance on Precarious Employment, published by the Toronto Training
Board and available online (link opens PDF file).
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8 Risk and Opportunity: Creating Options for Vulnerable Workers
http://www.cprn.com/en/doc.cfm?doc=1371
Ron Saunders authored the seventh and final report in the Canadian
Policy Research Network's Vulnerable Workers Series (Ottawa, January
2006). A list of other report in the series is available at
http://www.cprn.com/en/theme.cfm?theme=47.
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B Organizations
1 The North American Alliance for Fair Employment
33 Harrison Ave, e5, 5th flr
Boston, MA
02111
http://www.fairjobs.org
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The North American Alliance for Fair Employment (NAFFE) is a network of
organizations concerned about the growth of contingent work and its
impact on the well being of all workers.
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2 The Alliance on Contingent Employment
Alliance On Contingent Employment
#115 - 8 Assiniboine Drive,
c/o Atkinson College, York University
Tel: (416) 736-2100 x33173
http://quartz.atkinson.yorku.ca/quickplace/ace/main.nsf/
h_Toc/7918f7ff9fab85df85256bfa00669bec/?OpenDocument
Leah Vosko, Academic Co-Chair, Atkinson College, York University,
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Alice de Wolff, Community Co-Chair, [log in to unmask]
The Alliance on Contingent Employment (ACE) is a group of professors and
graduate students from three Canadian universities and people from seven
Toronto-based community organizations whose members work with issues
relating to precarious employment in Canada.
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3 Workers' Action Centre
720 Spadina Avenue, Suite 223
Toronto ON M5S 2T9
Tel: (416) 531-0778
Fax: (416) 533-0107
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http://www.workersactioncentre.org/index.html
The Workers' Action Centre in Toronto is a worker-based organization
committed to improving the lives and working conditions of people in
low-wage and unstable employment.
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4 Income Security Advocacy Centre
425 Adelaide Street West, 5th Floor
Toronto, ON M5V 3C1
Tel: (416) 597-5820
Toll Free: (866) 245-4072
Fax: (416) 597-5821
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http://www.incomesecurity.org/
Income Security Advocacy Centre, established in 2001 by Legal Aid
Ontario to serve low income Ontarians by conducting test case and
Charter litigation relating to provincial and federal income security
programs.
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5 Recent Print Sources on Precarious Employment
Clarke, M., de Wolff, A., Lewchuk, W.,2007. "Working Without Commitments
- Working With Poorer Health." In Our Times, forthcoming April 2007.
de Wolff, A., King, A. "Employment Strain, Precarious Employment, and
Temporary Employment Agencies." 2007. In Shalla, Vivan and Wallace
Clement, (eds.). Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives.
de Wolff, A., King, A., & Polyani, M. 2006). "The Hidden Costs of
Precarious Employment: Health and the Employment Relationship." In Vosko
(ed.) Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in
Canada. Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queens University Press.
Vosko, Leah (ed). 2006. Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour
Market Insecurity in Canada. Montreal & Kingston: McGill Queens
University Press.
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