Research & Policy

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Healthcare for All
Organizing Guide
2026

Media Tip Sheet - Healthcare for Alll

Added July 23, 2026
Factsheets
wage theft
For Health Providers
2026

FACTSHEET: Wage theft is a health hazard

Added April 30, 2026
Policy Submissions
2024

DWHN Submission RE: Personal Long-Term Illness Leave

Added November 26, 2024
For Workers
Printables
Healthcare for All
2024

Healthcare for All Flyer 11x17 - BENGALI

Added October 23, 2024
For Workers
Printables
Healthcare for All
2024

Healthcare for All Flyer 11x17 - SPANISH

Added October 23, 2024
For Workers
Printables
Healthcare for All
2024

Healthcare for All Flyer 11x17 - EN

Added October 23, 2024
Healthcare for All
Posters
2024

Blame Ford's Cuts, Not Immigrants

Added October 23, 2024
Healthcare for All
Posters
2024

Poster: Healthcare for All, Status for All, Decent Work for All.

Added October 23, 2024
Factsheets
For Health Providers
2024

Organizing Conversation Guide

Added October 10, 2024
Factsheets
For Health Providers
2024

Organizer Toolkit: MPP Visits

Added May 15, 2024
Factsheets
Healthcare for All
2024

FACTSHEET: Ontario needs Healthcare For All

Added March 27, 2024
For Workers
Printables
2024

WIPB Leaflet 2023

Added March 5, 2024
Factsheets
Privatization
Better Work for Better Care
2024

Factsheet: Truths and lies about healthcare privatization in Ontario

Added February 24, 2024
Printables
Better Work for Better Care
2024

Better Work for Better Care forum FLYER

Added February 7, 2024
Printables
For Health Providers
Petitions
2023

Health Worker Signup Sheet

Added May 15, 2023
For Workers
Printables
Shareables
2023

Customizable June 3 Leafleft

Added May 15, 2023
Printables
Posters
Shareables
2023

Healthcare For All Poster

Added May 15, 2023
Factsheets
Printables
Privatization
Shareables
2023

Privatization Backgrounder

Added April 24, 2023
Printables
Posters
Petitions
2020

Poster: Paid Sick Days Now - Sign Petition

Added December 9, 2020
Factsheets
2020

Factsheet: Myths & Truths of Paid Sick Days

Added November 20, 2020
Reports
Paid Sick Days
2020

Before it’s Too Late: Full Report

Added August 19, 2020
Printables
Posters
2020

Poster: May 21 Paid Sick Days for All

Added May 19, 2020
Printables
Posters
2020

Flyer: May 21 Day of Action Colour

Added May 19, 2020
Shareables
2020

Paid Sick Days for All PSW Superhero

Added May 19, 2020
Printables
Posters
2020

Flyer: May 21 Day of Action B&W

Added May 19, 2020
Shareables
2020

Shareable: Paid Sick Days for All Nurse Superhero

Added May 19, 2020
Shareables
2020

Shareable: Paid Sick Days for All Cleaner Superhero

Added May 19, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: Unpaid Wages, Unprotected Workers (2011)

Added January 21, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: Care Workers Voices for Landed Status and Fairness (2018)

Added January 21, 2020
Printables
2020

Postcard: Decent Work and Health Network

Added January 20, 2020
Printables
Shareables
Infographics
2020

Infographic: Bad Jobs are Making Us Sick (Access Alliance)

Added January 20, 2020
Printables
Shareables
2020

Placard: I'm a Flu Fighter and I Support Paid Sick Days

Added January 20, 2020
Shareables
2020

Shareable: Paid Sick Days Good for All

Added January 20, 2020
Reports
2020

Potential Health Equity Impacts of Bill 47 (2018)

Added January 20, 2020
Printables
Petitions
Shareables
2020

Pledge: I'm a Flu Fighter. I Support Paid Sick Days.

Added January 20, 2020
Shareables
2020

Shareable: Hospital Overcrowding Getting Worse

Added January 20, 2020
Shareables
2020

Shareable: Health Minister Scrapped Sick Days

Added January 20, 2020
Shareables
2020

Shareable: The Flu Shot isn't Enough

Added January 20, 2020
Printables
2020

Placard: Equation for a worse flu season

Added January 20, 2020
Printables
2020

Placard: Workers Need Paid Sick Days

Added January 20, 2020
Printables
2020

Placard: Fight the Flu with Paid Sick Days

Added January 20, 2020
Printables
Posters
2020

Leaflet: Bring Back Paid Sick Days

Added January 20, 2020
For Workers
2020

Redirect: Fight for $15 and Fairness

Added January 20, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: No Big Deal: Impact of NYC's Paid Sick Days Law on Employers (2016)

Added January 20, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: Still Working on the Edge (2015)

Added January 20, 2020
Research
2020

"Effects of increased minimum wages by unemployment rate on suicide in the USA” – John A Kaufman et al. (2020)

Added January 20, 2020
Research
2020

“The impact of workplace policies and other social factors on self-reported influenza-like illness incidence during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic“ – Kumar S, Quinn SC, Kim KH, Daniel LH & Freimuth VS (2012)

Added January 20, 2020
Research
2020

“Sick at work—a risk factor for long-term sickness absence at a later date?” - CD Hansen & JH Andersen (2009)

Added January 20, 2020
Research
2020

“Paid sick leave and nonfatal occupational injuries” – Abay Asfaw, Regina Pana-Cryan & Roger Rosa (2012)

Added January 20, 2020
Research
2020

“Perceived effects of leave from work and the role of paid leave among parents of children with special health care needs” - Mark A. Schuster et al. (2009)

Added January 20, 2020
Research
2020

“Working While Ill as a Risk Factor for Serious Coronary Events: The Whitehall II Study” - Mika Kivimäki, et al. (2005)

Added January 20, 2020
Research
2020

“Pathways between under/unemployment and health among racialized immigrant women in Toronto” - Stephanie Premji & Yogendra Shakya (2017)

Added January 20, 2020
For Workers
2020

Work problems? Important numbers.

Added January 20, 2020
For Health Providers
2020

Poverty: A Clinical Tool for Primary Care Providers (2015)

Added January 20, 2020
For Health Providers
2020

How to Assist Injured Workers: A Guide for Physicians in Ontario (2015)

Added January 20, 2020
For Workers
2020

Redirect: Ministry of Labour

Added January 20, 2020
For Workers
2020

Redirect: Workers' Action Centre

Added January 20, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: Employers’ Perspectives on San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Policy (2009)

Added January 20, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: Precarity Penalty: Impact of Employment Precarity (2012)

Added January 20, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: Employment & Income Insecurities Faced by Racialized Groups in Black Creek Area (2013)

Added January 20, 2020
Reports
2020

Report: Tired of the Hustle: Youth Voices on Unemployment (2016)

Added January 13, 2020
Patient Stories
2020

Patient Stories

Added January 10, 2020
Factsheets
Printables
2020

Migrant Workers Deserve $15 and Fairness

Added January 10, 2020
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