(TORONTO) -- Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan today commended the Ontario government for creating an expert advisory panel to conduct a comprehensive review of the province’s occupational health and safety prevention and enforcement system.

(TORONTO) -- The Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL) has joined the many who are calling for a coroner’s inquest to determine whether a young woman in the Niagara Region could have survived had the emergency room closest to her not been closed.

(TORONTO) -- In a meeting today between Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan and the leaders of Ontario’s fifteen largest private and public sector unions, representing over one million workers, the Ontario labour movement delivered a clear and unified message on behalf of Ontario’s working families: Ontario needs a “jobs budget”.

(TORONTO) -- Union leaders representing the largest group of Ontario workers ever will walk united into a meeting with two key cabinet ministers tomorrow to discuss government action on jobs and the economy.

(TORONTO) -- On the eve of a public vigil honouring the victims of the Christmas Eve scaffolding collapse tragedy, the Ontario Federation of Labour, on behalf of its affiliate unions and more than one million members in the province, offer our deepest sympathies to the families of the slain workers and to the surviving victim.