JFAAP Protesting austarity

Two important events

JFAAP Photo Exhibit at York U

The second version was mounted at the ZigZag Gallery, Faculty of Environmental Studies and the opening was held with over 50 people in attendance.

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Photo Exhibit continues at York U.

Join us for the opening or visit during January 2012.

Poster logo

Celebrate!

JFAAP’s End of the Year Celebration

All JFAAP members, community residents and allies invited!

 

2011 was a hard year for many people in our community, across the City and around the world.

JFAAP worked with many community residents and allies across the City to tackle issues important to our community. We worked on income security, good jobs, social assistance rates, special diets campaign, food security, Housing and tenant rights, workers’ rights, and against City budget cuts and austerity policies, racialization of poverty, police violence and countless other important issues.

We know much more needs to be done, and 2012 might be even harder than 2011.  Nevertheless, we’ve achieved a lot too. Many community residents are more aware and involved; numerous partnerships and alliances were built. We did so many actions together. Let’s celebrate all that…

Join JFAAP’s Party on:

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

6:00 to 8:30 pm

2^nd Floor, Yorkgate Mall; Black Creek Community Health Centre meeting room.

Dinner will be served

Childcare available

For more information please contact JFAAP:

(416)760-2677 or janefinchactionagainstpoverty@gmail.com

Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP)

Workers rights workshop and Clinic

Tuesday Nov. 15, 6:00PM

Yorkgate Mall, Jane and Finch

Black Creek Health Centre

WHAT IS WAGE THEFT

Many of us are not earning enough to live on. We face unfair conditions at work every day. Too many employers don’t pay us what we should be paid by law. Why is this allowed to happen? We deserve decent wages and fairness at work!

Our wages are stolen when:

• We are not paid for all the hours that we work, or we are not paid at all
• We are not paid minimum wage, overtime pay or for other legal rights
• We are wrongly treated as independent contractors or self employed
• We are charged a fee to get a job

When employers steal our wages and break the law – this is wage theft!

Wage theft is unfair, affects our families and communities and keeps us in poverty!

HOW WE CAN STOP WAGE THEFT

 

We can stop wage theft when we work together. We have done it before! Many US states have passed Wage Theft laws. It can be done!!

TO STOP WAGE THEFT THE GOVERNMENT MUST:

• Make all employers follow the law in all workplaces
• Update labour laws to protect all workers
• Increase the minimum wage to bring workers out of poverty
• Ensure equal status and protection for all workers regardless of immigration status

For more detailed information Come tou the clinic or call 416-531-0778 x 221

Workers’ Action Centre

JFAAP Workshop and meeting;Tuesday, November 8th at 6 PM

Had an experience with a bad boss?

Unpaid wages, job scam, temp agency?

Come to Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP) meeting:

When: 6:00 pm; Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Where: 2nd Floor, Yorkgate Mall; Black Creek Community Health Centre

• ·       Find out more about the Workers’ Action Centre’s Stop Wage Theft campaign
• ·       Talk about actions JFAAP could take around bad bosses in our community

With a presentation from the Workers’ Action Centre

Many of us are not earning enough to live on. We face unfair conditions at work every day. Too many employers don’t pay us what we should be paid by law. Why is this allowed to happen? We deserve decent wages and fairness at work!

Our wages are stolen when:

• ·       We are not paid for all the hours that we work, or we are not paid at all
• ·       We are not paid minimum wage, overtime pay or for other legal rights
• ·       We are wrongly treated as independent contractors or self employed
• ·       We are charged a fee to get a job

When employers steal our wages and break the law – this is wage theft!

Wage theft is unfair, affects our families and communities and keeps us in poverty!

Check out http://www.workersactioncentre.org/stopwagetheft.html for info on the Stop Wage Theft campaign

Organized by Jane Finch Action Against Poverty (JFAAP) In partnership with Workers Action Centre

For more information, please contact janefinchactionagainstpoverty@gmail.com;

416-760-2677

Stop the cuts demo pics

As far as the Star is concerned this never happened. But 10,000 cannot be wrong.

Resist FORD!

Monday September 26th 

 

“Get on the bus” – Rexdale and Jane-Finch talk back to Rob Ford

Join us and communities across Toronto at City Hall on Monday September 26th when we confront Ford and his cuts that are going to hurt our communities
and lives!

Stop cuts to community programs, child care, social assistance, social housing, transportation, seniors’ services, community centres….

We reject the privatization of our public, city services. We reject policing and criminalization of our communities; we want good jobs and decent wages. A living wage is not a privilege, it is a human right.

We want communities to have power over our resources and money!

This is OUR city!

Bus Pickups:
REXDALE: 3:00 pm from Albion Mall (Kipling/Albion – at the Canadian Tire
entrance)
JANE-FINCH: 4:00 pm from Yorkgate Mall (North-west of Jane-Finch intersection – at No Frills entrance)

Contact: janefinchactionagainstpoverty@gmail.com or 416-760-2677

Special diet meeting!