{"id":1845,"date":"2017-03-25T08:41:05","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T12:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2020-08-24T13:34:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T17:34:12","slug":"ontarians-deserve-a-15-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/ontarians-deserve-a-15-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontarians deserve a $15 minimum wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mar 25, 2017 @ 08:41<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cindy Forster, Ontario NDP Labour\u00a0Critic and MPP for Welland, \u00a0issued the following statement in response to the announcement made\u00a0today by the Minister of Labour:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOntarians deserve nothing less than a\u00a0$15 minimum wage,\u00a0because someone who goes to work 40 hours each week shouldn\u2019t be struggling below the poverty line. Too many people are working two or more low wage, part-time jobs just to pay their hydro bills and to put food on the table.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Premier Wynne\u00a0doesn\u2019t get\u00a0that families can\u2019t survive on the current minimum wage.\u00a0Unstable\u00a0employment\u00a0is having\u200e\u00a0a devastating impact on women, racialized people and immigrants. Now is the time for a\u00a0\u200e$15 minimum wage for Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 25, 2017 @ 08:41 Cindy Forster, Ontario NDP Labour\u00a0Critic and MPP for Welland, \u00a0issued the following statement in response to the announcement made\u00a0today by the Minister of Labour: &nbsp; \u201cOntarians deserve nothing less than a\u00a0$15 minimum wage,\u00a0because someone who goes to work 40 hours each week shouldn\u2019t be struggling below the poverty line. Too &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,216,40,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-editorials","category-local","category-politics"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 18:39:05","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\/1845","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}