{"id":15185,"date":"2018-09-03T08:50:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T12:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2018-09-04T08:51:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T12:51:21","slug":"labour-day-statement-from-official-opposition-leader-andrea-horwath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/03\/labour-day-statement-from-official-opposition-leader-andrea-horwath\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour Day statement from Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Labour Day statement from Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201cLabour Day is an important day for Ontarians to celebrate the protections and rights that generations of workers and unions have fought hard to secure over the years. Today, we celebrate our sisters and brothers who fought to ensure that all workers in Ontario could enjoy the gains made through better working conditions, stronger protections, and the updated laws they need to build a great life, as well as the occupational health and safety they need to come home safe every day.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Today, all of Ontario\u2019s workers are facing the threat of a premier that wants to drag Ontario backwards, including ripping off workers by rolling back minimum wage <\/em>gains,<em> and promising to \u2018leave no stone unturned\u2019 when it comes to privatization. Doug Ford\u2019s cutting, privatizing and deregulating agenda threatens the jobs, services and working conditions that people count on. Ontarians deserve better, and it doesn\u2019t have to be this way. Working together, in solidarity, new gains are possible.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The NDP will fight for a $15 minimum wage. We\u2019ll keep pushing for benefits for all, including prescription and dental coverage. And we\u2019ll work to make sure Ontario moves forward, not <\/em>backward,<em> when it comes to protecting all workers.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>New Democrats are proud to join in labour day celebrations across the province \u2013 to celebrate how far we\u2019ve come, and plan the gains still to be made.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour Day statement from Official Opposition Leader Andrea Horwath, \u201cLabour Day is an important day for Ontarians to celebrate the protections and rights that generations of workers and unions have fought hard to secure over the years. Today, we celebrate our sisters and brothers who fought to ensure that all workers in Ontario could enjoy &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1677],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-provincial","tag-labour-day"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 17:14:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15186,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15185\/revisions\/15186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}