For donors & supporters
Before You Donate to Oxfam Canada
Practice what you preach — starting at home.
Oxfam asks Canadians for generosity while its own workers are on strike for fairness. Before you give, know what leadership is refusing at the bargaining table.
Your donation. Their values?
Oxfam campaigns for equality, gender justice, and economic fairness worldwide. CUPE 2722 members say those same principles are not being applied to Oxfam Canada’s own staff.
What Oxfam asks of donors
- Fight inequality and stand with the vulnerable
- Believe in gender justice and economic fairness
- Support organizations that live their values
What workers say is happening at home
- COLA protections rolled back at the bargaining table
- Equity leaves declined — gender-affirming care, domestic violence protections
- First strike in 44 years of union negotiations at Oxfam Canada
COLA is already in the agreement.
The cost-of-living adjustment has been part of the collective agreement for more than 20 years. It exists to protect wages against inflation — not as a ceiling, but as a baseline workers rely on.
6.5%
Advertised by Oxfam
0.5%
Real offer when COLA isn’t implemented as written
6.26%
Purchasing power lost (2018–2024) when COLA wasn’t honoured
Ask Oxfam to pay what is already agreed — not concessions.
What to ask Oxfam before you donate.
Equality, justice, and fairness should start at home. Before you support Oxfam Canada with your donation, ask leadership to live up to the values it asks you to fund.
- 01
Honour COLA
Cost-of-living adjustment is written into the collective agreement. Tell Oxfam to pay what it already agreed to — not concessions.
- 02
Fair wages
Stop rolling back the protections staff have relied on for decades. Wages should keep pace with inflation.
- 03
Equity at work
Gender-affirming care leave and domestic violence protections — the same values Oxfam advocates for globally.
- 04
Return to the table
Negotiate a fair deal and end the first strike in Oxfam Canada's history.
Action live now
Ask Oxfam to start at home.
Before you donate, send a letter. Ask every MP and the House to put pressure on Oxfam Canada to return to the bargaining table.
Your message also reaches journalists, NGO executive directors, Oxfam Canada’s board and Executive Director, and Oxfam affiliates worldwide — OI, GB, Aus, Novib, and more.