[homeles_ot-l] Fwd: Campaign 2000 new report on "Good J0bs" released today

Mon May 12 12:42:20 EDT 2008

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From: Dana Milne <milned at lao.on.ca>
Date: Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:39 PM
Subject: Campaign 2000 new report on "Good J0bs" released today
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Dana Milne
Provincial Organizer
Income Security Advocacy Centre
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*From:* MAUND, Jacquie [mailto:JacquieMA at FSATORONTO.com]
*Sent:* May 12, 2008 12:30 PM
*To:* MAUND, Jacquie
*Subject:* Campaign 2000 new report on "Good JObs" released today

 *Ontario** Campaign 2000 Partners & Friends:*

Our new report is attached, along with front page coverage from Toronto
Star.

We encourage you to echo these messages in community consultations on
poverty reduction.

*                                                     *

* End Child and Family Poverty in Canada*

*www.campaign2000.ca*

Media Release                                                 *FOR RELEASE
10:00 AM EDT, May 12, 2008*

* *

*WORK ISN'T WORKING for Ontario Families - New Report*

*Poverty Reduction requires a Jobs Strategy, says Campaign 2000*

*Toronto** *– In the face of mounting evidence on the role of the labour
market in family poverty, today Campaign 2000, the coalition working to end
child and family poverty, joined with the Toronto & York Region Labour
Council and the Canadian Labour Congress (Ontario Region) to call for the
inclusion of a good jobs strategy in the provincial Poverty Reduction
Strategy. Their joint report, *Work Isn't Working for Ontario Families: The
Role of Good Jobs in Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy *establishes that*
*many Ontario parents cannot achieve financial security for their families
not because they can't find work, but because they can't find a good job.

"Forty-one per cent of children in low-income families in this province have
at least one parent working full-time, all year," said Ann Decter, National
Coordinator of Campaign 2000, "and they are still living in poverty. Parents
are working hard to meet their responsibilities but their jobs don't pay
enough to lift a family out of poverty. The labour market is churning out
jobs and at the same time failing Ontario parents."

In March 2008, Ontario lost 25,000 full-time jobs but gained 23,000
part-time ones. Employment rates are high and parents are working more and
longer hours, but the increase in non-standard or precarious work – that is
part-time and contract jobs with low pay, little or no benefit coverage or
security – leaves many Ontario children growing up in poverty. Data just
released by Statistics Canada shows there was no improvement in Ontario's
child poverty rate between 2005 and 2006.

"Low-income communities need stable, secure jobs where they earn enough to
support their families" said John Cartwright, President of the Toronto &
York Region Labour Council. "We heard that message clearly in community
consultations last year, and we are calling on the provincial government to
listen up. Addressing the need for jobs that pay a living wage is crucial
for the success of Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy."

On average, an Ontario parent who loses a full-time manufacturing job and
succeeds in finding new work will experience a 25% drop in income. For a
family, that drop can mean a direct slide from making ends meet into
poverty. Manufacturing job losses have been felt around the province. Data
in the report shows that replacing a lost job in automotive manufacturing
with one in retail as auto declines and retail expands would cause income to
drop by two-thirds.

*Work Isn't Working for Ontario Families* suggests that improving labour
market regulation, increasing unionization, maximizing the public benefit of
public dollars and stimulating manufacturing for the developing global green
economy are strategies to re-build secure livelihoods for Ontario parents
and their children. Ontario's expanding service sector has the second lowest
sector unionization rate in Canada, and includes much temp agency and
sub-contracted work that operates outside the reach of existing labour
standards legislation.

-30-

*Contacts:*

John Cartwright, President, Toronto & York Region Labour Council: 416-
999-5663

Ann Decter, National Coordinator, Campaign 2000: 416-595-9230 ext 228 or
416-706-4686

Full report available at www.campaign2000.ca

*Jacquie Maund*

*Coordinator Social Reform/Ontario Campaign 2000*

*Family Service Association*

*Tel 416-595-9230 x241*

*Fax 416-595-0242*

*jacquiema at fsatoronto.com*

*www.campaign2000.ca** *

*www.fsatoronto.com*

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