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(OFL) - Ontario union leaders tell Ford: ‘If you don’t reverse racist keffiyeh ban, we’ll defy it’

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Thursday, April 25, 2024
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“To target a cultural community like this, in 2024, is simply unconscionable,” said OFL President Laura Walton.

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  • “To target a cultural community like this, in 2024, is simply unconscionable,” said OFL President Laura Walton.
  • If Ford won’t end this racist ban, we’ll defy it.”
    The keffiyeh is a long-standing and deeply significant cultural symbol for Palestinians, widely understood in the Arab world and internationally as an expression of Palestinian identity.
  • In response to the keffiyeh ban, the OFL has launched an email tool that allows Ontarians to tell Ford and the Conservatives to end it.
  • We’re taking action this week, and we won’t stop until the ban is reversed.”
    The Ontario Federation of Labour represents 54 unions and one million workers in Ontario.

Niagara Region community and labour leaders decry harmful impact of Ford’s policies

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Friday, February 2, 2024
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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Feb. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Niagara Region community and labour leaders joined the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) at a media conference on Friday to decry the harmful impacts of Doug Ford’s government, in advance of the Ontario PC Party’s 2024 policy convention in Niagara Falls this weekend.

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  • NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario, Feb. 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Niagara Region community and labour leaders joined the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) at a media conference on Friday to decry the harmful impacts of Doug Ford’s government, in advance of the Ontario PC Party’s 2024 policy convention in Niagara Falls this weekend.
  • “Corruption, closures, and cost-of-living crisis – welcome to Doug Ford’s Ontario in 2024,” said Laura Walton, President of the OFL.
  • “Five years after Ford’s election in 2018, life in Ontario is more difficult and more expensive for workers and their families,” added Walton.
  • “And we have no reason to think that this weekend’s policy convention will change any of it.