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Born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Sid Ryan is in his second term as the President of the Ontario Federation Labour, Canada’s largest provincial labour federation, where he represents 54 unions and over one million workers. Previously, Sid headed up CUPE Ontario for 17 years and became one of the labour movement’s most recognized voices on public health care, education and public services. Sid has earned an international reputation as a champion of equity, social justice and human rights – not just for his members, but for workers in every workplace and their families in every community.

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How Elevator Companies Are Making Safety Go Down in Ontario

(1) Comments | Posted June 5, 2013 | 5:22 PM

If you are one of the millions of Ontarians who lives in a high-rise or works in an office tower, you wake up every morning expecting to get down and out of your building and up to your office safely and on time. Elevator workers are a silent army that...

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Will Ontario Get the People's Budget It Deserves?

(0) Comments | Posted May 2, 2013 | 8:02 AM

Minority parliaments provide unique opportunities to cut through partisan politics and collaborate to deliver progressive change. Thursday's Ontario budget provides one such opportunity that cannot be squandered.
It is time for Ontario's political parties to do something truly courageous: listen to Ontarians and work together to adopt a People's...

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Tories Attack Rand Formula to Silence Workers

(8) Comments | Posted February 14, 2013 | 6:55 AM

The way that Conservative Members of Parliament like Pierre Poilievre go on about unions dues, you'd think they are familiar with the struggle of the average working person. However, unlike the millions of workers in Canada who are striving to make ends meet, Poilievre is only 33 years...

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Part 3: Without Corporations, Tim Hudak Wouldn't Be Elected

(27) Comments | Posted July 20, 2012 | 8:12 AM

Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak's recent white paper, "Flexible Labour Markets," has been the centre of much controversy and debate.

Hudak trumps up a lot of nonsense and feigned concern about union democracy and transparency, but in the end offers little more than selfish individualism in opposition. That...

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Part 2: Hudak and Harper Attempt to Silence their Critics

(6) Comments | Posted July 19, 2012 | 7:29 AM

From Queen's Park to Parliament Hill, if there is one lesson that Conservatives have learned from Indiana, Alabama, Louisiana and other states where "right-to-work" laws have decimated worker representation and driven down wages, it is that attacking unions is also the best way to silence your critics. It has become...

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When Hudak Says "Flexible" Labour, He Really Means "Cheap"

(31) Comments | Posted July 18, 2012 | 10:10 AM

This is part one of a three-part reply to Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak's series of HuffPost blogs about his party's "Path to Prosperity" white paper.

Since when was the middle class the enemy of Ontario's economic strength? It seems impossible to have a conception of...

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