Date:
11 October, 2012
Thursday, Oct 11, 2012, 7:00pm - Friday, Oct 12, 2012, 4:30pm
Cara Commons, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
7th Floor, 55 Dundas Street W., Toronto
Thursday, October 11th, 7:00 pm - Evening keynote address
The History and Potential of the Living Wage Movement: The B.C. Experience, featuring Seth Klein, Director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives–BC.
Friday, October 12th, 8:30-4:30 pm - Full-day workshop
What does it take to make a living wage?
What role can governments play in ensuring a living wage?
How can businesses get engaged in the goal of paying a living wage?
What can we learn from Canadian experiences with living wage campaigns?
The workshop will draw on real-life examples of living wage successes and it will provide space for participants to consider what a living wage could mean in the context of reducing income inequality in Ontario.
Guest speakers include:
- Hugh Mackenzie and Jim Stanford, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
- Jaime McEvoy, City Councillor, New Westminster
- Michael McCarthy Flynn, full-time organizer, Metro Vancouver Living Wage campaign
- Jordan Brennan, Dept. of Political Science, York University
- Robert White, B.R.I. Consultants
- Kristyn Wong-Tam, City Councillor, Toronto
- Kernaghan Webb, Director, Institute for the Study of Corporate Social Responsibility, Ryerson University
- Winnie Ng, Sam Gindin Chair in Social Justice, Ryerson University
- Sonia Singh, Workers’ Action Centre,
- Dave Tate, ACORN
- Kirsten Sutton, SAP Labs
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Event Contact:
Our workshop has reached capacity, and registration is now closed. If you have any questions, please contact CCPA-Ontario Director Trish Hennessy at trish@policyalternatives.ca.
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Cara Commons, Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University
Toronto Ontario
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