It used to be that when you started your working career you could work the same job until you retired, usually with a workplace pension. Today’s reality of work has fundamentally changed yet our policies, especially Employment Insurance and Pensions, remain stuck in the past. Nearly 50% of Torontonians can’t find permanent, full-time jobs that [...]
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Urban Worker Townhall Recording – March 24, 2013
on April 25, 2013
Andrew Cash, NDP Member of Parliament for Davenport, and Jonah Schein, NDP MPP for Davenport, hosted a telephone townhall on March 24, 2013 on the issues facing urban workers – self-employed, contract, and freelance workers. This is the recording of that conversation. Click the play button below to listen! Urban Worker Townhall Recording by Andrew [...]
Speak out against the Trojan Horse Budget Bill!
on May 15, 2012
The Conservative Budget Implementation Act 2012 is a trojan horse bill sneaking in hundreds of pages of harmful new measures that: gut environmental protection threaten fisheries and other resources cut public pensions and job standards reduce democratic accountability undermine public health care The Conservatives rejected our NDP proposal to split this massive 425-page bill to [...]
Fairness for Urban Workers – Febuary 2012
on February 5, 2012
Last Thursday, NDP MP Andrew Cash’s Toronto office was packed to the brim with local residents who work contract, freelance, low wage or part time jobs with little to no benefits, pensions or job security. These “Ubran Workers” came to speak out about their experiences and to demand fairness from the federal government. The meeting [...]
Andrew Cash speaks on the Pooled Registered Pension Plan – January 31, 2012
on January 31, 2012
Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP): Madam Speaker, it is an honour to rise today and speak to this bill, because so many Canadians do not have a pension and they are looking to the government for some kind of leadership. This is a hugely important issue and the government is offering a solution that is [...]
Andrew asks about cuts to EI processing centres – December 9, 2011
on December 9, 2011
Mr. Andrew Cash (Davenport, NDP): That is very good to hear, Mr. Speaker. The reason there is a rise in EI claims is that too many Canadians are unemployed. There are a number of ways in which the government could show some heart but, in this particular instance, the government has chosen a totally different [...]