❕We are pledging to strike❕ Workers at the largest shelter in Atlantic Canada have voted to strike. We need living wages, overnight premium pay, and sick days. Let’s get it! #UnionStrong #StrongerTogether *Image description in alt text.

Solidarity with our siblings at @opseusefpo.bsky.social who are fighting for a better contract for more than 10,000 full-time college support staff. Here’s our member, Cherry, repping the purple on the picket line. Join a picket near you because we’re #StrongerTogether 🤜🤛 #UnionsforAll

❕The University of Winnipeg relies on janitors to keep its campus clean, safe, and healthy for all. It’s time to show up for them! Sign our petition to show UW that we are #StrongerTogether on campus when we stand for fair wages. 🧹🔋 🔗: justiceforjanitors.ca/janitors-vot...

✌️Janitorial workers at Uptown Shopping Centre in Victoria ratified a new agreement on Thursday! The deal includes a yearly $1 increase for base wages + a top off $1 premium and full pension at the end of the 3-year agreement & more! Big congratulations! Onwards! 🧹 #StrongerTogether #UnionsforAll

Join us this Friday in front of the @dalhousieu.bsky.social Killam Library for our rally! Students are arriving this week, let's stand together and show them that we care about saving their Fall term from this reckless Board behaviour! #Keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

"Rethinking Canada’s ‘Productivity Problem’" A great read by Isaac Phan Nay of the Tyee as he interviews Jasmine Ramze Rezaee. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Questions still remain about why and how the @nsgov.bsky.social switched service providers without notice leaving 42 Out of the Cold employees jobless. seiulocal2.ca/voices-from-... #Solidarity #StandWithWorkers #StrongerTogether

SEIU Local 2 filed a successor rights application at the NS Labour Board this week for the members who were working at Out of the Cold. The workers continue to speak out about the unjust mass terminations that took place earlier this month. 👉 seiulocal2.ca/voices-from-... #StandWithWorkers

SEIU 2 members are on strike in Port Alberni!! “We aren’t looking for anything crazy. Just some basic respect for the many years we’ve put in, including our seasonal people that are likewise committed to this Club.” ONE DAY LONGER ONE DAY STRONGER 💪💪 cheknews.ca/grounds-crew...

We ratified our 1st Agreement! Secured wage increases of 7.5% over 2 years (6 months retro!), additional paid wellness days, a solid employer paid health benefit plan, improved vacation pay, health & safety language, and much more! 👏 #Hamilton #StongerTogether #UnionsforAll #HamiltonBikeShare

📣 “WE ARE THE WORKERS. THEY HAVE TO RESPECT US!” Thousands of @seiu.org janitors across British Columbia are kicking off contract negotiations THIS WEEK 🔥

In workplaces big and small, workers need a voice and respect. #StrongerTogether www.thespec.com/business/ham...

BREAKING: Rümeysa, our union sister who was snatched by ICE, is free today. We stood up for our union family and demanded justice! When you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us. #4the1st ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

🤩 Making a non-union job a *union job*!! After organizing their workplace, Woodgrove Centre workers on #vancouverisland have won a first union contract! “We negotiated safeguards that hold our employer and the property manager accountable to US.” — Thomas Brown @seiu.org Member.

📢📢📢ONA STAFF STRIKE VOTE!!! Staff at the @ontarionurses.bsky.social are fighting for a fair deal – but our employer doesn’t seem to think we deserve one. A strike vote is scheduled for May 13. LEARN MORE at onasu.org #fairness #Respect #StrongerTogether

NEW! Bee-Clean workers at Cottonwood Centre in Chilliwack have just certified their union!! Across Canada janitors continue to organize to win job security from contract flips and the power to fight for dignified working conditions!! WELCOME TO @seiu.org 💫

“Home at last: The long road to unionizing #NovaScotia 's largest homeless shelter,” an article by Eamon Irving published in The Signal about some of SEIU’s newest members. signalhfx.ca/home-at-last/ #StrongerTogether

I have a plan! Do you?    With the federal election falling on April 28, be sure to make your plan to vote and participate in your local Day of Mourning event. #elxn45 #DOM2025 canadianlabour.ca/events/day-o...

📣 60+ SEIU Brewery Workers at Turning Point Brewery have just ratified their second collective agreement!! In these uncertain times, it's workers like those at TP #brewery that are leading the way to organize and win better job security and strong industry setting standards for working families!

Toronto janitors ratify new agreement! 🎉 More than 3,000 private sector cleaners are closing the gap with the living wage, and setting the standard for thousands more. 💪 #StrongerTogether justiceforjanitors.ca/toronto-jani...

Victory! 🎉 SEIU clleaners in #Toronto have ratified a new collective agreement with many important improvements as well as breaking ground in many areas! The deal covers 1,000s of workers and sets the pattern for many more! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽 More details soon.

🍻 Brewery Workers Organizing Victory! Sleeman workers in Delta BC have just joined 100+ Sleeman members in Vernon and won a union at the BC Labour Board!

👉STRIKE VOTE! 5 days of negotiations and the cleaning companies are still refusing to provide the kinds of wage increases we need to support our families. 😡Over 3,000 janitors getting ready for strike action in #Toronto. ✊ For more info visit justiceforjanitors.ca/bargaining20...

Your J4J TOR bargaining team has been working hard to negotiate a fair contract, but the cleaning companies are refusing to provide the wage increases we need to support our families. 😡 One more meeting scheduled but have to be ready to take strike action. ✊ justiceforjanitors.ca/bargaining20...

On Saturday we held a townhall meeting in downtown #Toronto to discuss feedback from surveys, review the mandate for bargaining, and go over key dates and next steps in the process.✊ www.justiceforjanitors.ca/bargaining20...

Happy International Women’s Day! 😀 SEIU Local 2 member Leena McVeety stands in front of a monument of hope in Abbotsford, BC The Golden Tree is a breathtaking representation of the three women lost that day, forever entwined, raising their arms to enlightenment and hope. www.goldentree.ca/The-Tree

Happy International Women’s Day! 😀 SEIU Local 2 cleaners gathered in #Ottawa today. Most of the workers in the janitorial sector are women – and they are standing up for better working conditions. ✊ #AccelerateAction for gender equity! #JusticeforJanitors #StrongerTogether

Happy International Women’s Day! 💪 SEIU Local 2 hosted an IWD luncheon in Nova Scotia. It was attended by special guest, Susan Leblanc, NDP MLA for Dartmouth North who spoke about the push at the NS Province House for domestic violence legislation. #AccelerateAction #StrongerTogether

ORGANIZING VICTORY!! 42 Everclean Facility Services workers at the City of Lougheed have just WON A UNION WITH SEIU!! This campaign was won by the determination of the organizing committee that worked tirelessly to make this happen!! 💪 @seiu.org

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov... A living wage requirement at @hfxgov.bsky.social is not good enough when workers can be fired en masse when there's a contract change and hard-earned advances are not protected. #justiceforjanitors

A great show of #Solidarity in #Halifax today as 100 rally for shelter workers at the Nova Scotia Labour Board to protest certification delay! 💪 #CounttheBallots ! Delays disempower workers and helps the bosses, but we’re not giving up. #WhenWeFightWeWin ✊ seiulocal2.ca/100-rally-fo...

When we fight, we win!

The J4J Toronto Member Action Committee gathered on FEB 1 to plan outreach to fellow union members about our upcoming contract negotiations. Over 40 members attended! 🔥 The contract in #Toronto expires at the end of March and workers need improvements! #StongerTogether #WinWorkerPower2025

✈️ After STANDING UP and supporting Alpine workers’ historic strike at Vancouver Airport 70 Bee-Clean janitors at #yvr have just won the same deal!! @seiu.org Janitors in BC are showing us how it’s done!! Fighting back against corporate greed and winning more for working families!! 🔥🔥🔥

Working conditions for janitors improving in #Halifax! 💜 Bee-Clean janitors ratify collective agreements in the HRM. ✊ The new Bee-Clean and GDI city-wide agreements are a big step forward! 🔥 www.justiceforjanitors.ca/standards-im... #StrongerTogether #Solidarity #Unionstrong

SEIU members ratified their new collective agreement with BIG improvements in Halifax on Saturday! ✊🙌 Congratulations on a hard-fought contract. A strike has been averted and job actions for Monday have been cancelled. www.justiceforjanitors.ca/gdi-janitors... #StrongerTogether #Solidarity

We have a tentative agreement with GDI in Halifax! 🙌 ➡️A ratification vote has been scheduled for this Saturday, January 25. #StrongerTogether #Solidarity www.justiceforjanitors.ca/2024-hrm-bar...

More than 300 Halifax cleaners preparing for possible strike next week www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/labo...

175+ SEIU casino workers in solidarity with the janitors across HRM in their final bargaining session today with @GDIFacilityServices.✊ 100s of janitors are prepared to walk off the job Monday with the nearby casino workers rallying behind them. 💪 #StrongerTogether #Solidarity #Halifax #NovaScotia

#Halifax area could see its first ever large-scale private sector janitorial strike next week. Strike preparedness training was a great success! 🙌 170+ members working for GDI attended training this weekend! ✊ www.justiceforjanitors.ca/halifax-area... #StrongerTogether #Solidarity #NovaScotia

GDI Facility Services has refused to address cleaners main concerns like fair wages, workloads and health benefits at the bargaining table. WORKERS ARE TAKING A STAND! ✊ For more information visit justiceforjanitors.ca 🧹💪 #WorkerJustice #strongertogether #Halifax #NovaScotia

📢 Workers in the HRM are stepping up and sending a message to GDI:

Nearly 400 TBM workers at the TTC’s bus division have a new 4-year union contract! 👏 🟣 Annual raises & minimum wage relativity protections 🟣 Pension fund contribution increases 🟣 Improvements to medical benefits, safety shoe allowances and more! #StrongerTogether

Looking Back 👀 In 2024 we had our first in-person convention in eight years. 😍 More than 225 attendees gathered on October 3 through 5, including members from across Canada and across sectors. 🔥 #StrongerTogether #UnionsForAll See videos and photos: seiulocal2.ca/looking-back...

WE HAVE A DEAL!!! 🙌 The janitor strike @YVR is over! 😊 Thank you for all your support. It would not have been possible without you. 💜 🟡 $25/hr in 2025 🟣 Lead hand and overnight shift premiums #StrongerTogether #Solidarity #retirewithdignity www.justiceforjanitors.ca/yvr-janitors...

A tentative agreement has been reached! The escalated job actions planned for today at YVR have been cancelled. Thank you! The offer was possible thanks to the incredible support janitors received. 💜 We’ll keep you posted. ✊ #StrongerTogether #Solidarity www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

The airport bosses don’t care about us. They think janitors deserve less. Tomorrow, we’re cranking up the heat 🔥 All allies are asked to join at 8am for a training at Chester Johnson Park near the YVR SkyTrain station on the ground level.

Solidarity! "Over 200 janitors that clean Vancouver’s international airport are set to walk off the job on Friday...[T]he cleaners’ employer, has refused to offer janitors wages that keep up with rising costs" www.globenewswire.com/news-release... @seiulocal2.bsky.social #bcpoli #vanpoli #union

JUST PRACTICING FOR JUSTICE!! Today we rallied at Vancouver International Airport. It’s clear: management is not taking our demands seriously. Hundreds of janitors that do the work to keep YVR functioning are STRIKE READY 💜💜 STAY TUNED ✊ @seiu.org