A message to leadership
The Directors
All for each other. Not for the team.
Five directors, one rung below the Executive Director. When it mattered, they looked out for each other — not for the staff who do the work. They have lost the team's trust.
Every one of them received a good salary increase in April. Not one of them stood up for their team.
Oxfam Canada's five directors
Five directors. One choice.
One rung below the Executive Director
- 01Erin Kiley
Director, International Programs
Scab statement → - 02Jennifer Luedey
Director, Philanthropy & Development
Scab statement → - 03Diane O'Reggio
Director, Finance & Operations
Scab statement → - 04Diana Sarosi
Director, Policy, Campaigns & Communications
Scab statement → - 05Dalia Al-Awqati
Deputy Director, Humanitarian
Scab statement →
Each paid up to around $160,000 a year.
The staff who do the work top out at $104,627.
The Math.
Oxfam fights inequality for a living. Its own pay structure builds it.
The people doing the work
$55,872 $104,627
Front-line staff start at $55,872. At the very top of the bargained grid (the most senior unionized managers, Step 10) the ceiling is $104,627. That is the entire bargaining unit, in writing. Our raises were capped at CPI under Article 18.02.
Reported to the CRA
5 positions
Oxfam's own filing reports 5 of its ten highest-paid permanent positions in the $120,000-$159,999 band, where the directors sit, plus 1 more above it at $160,000-$199,999. Ours were capped at $104,627. Theirs were not.
Title inflation hands a few people big-sounding roles, and hands the rest of us titles that quietly close doors on the next job. The workload doesn't match the headcount. The deadlines don't match the pay.
"Please take some time off."
That was the answer, with the deadlines still due, the teams still short-staffed, the work still ours. A day off you can't actually take is not empathy.
Empathy is fair pay. Empathy is standing up when it costs you something.
Stand up for your staff.
We're not asking you to be heroes. We're asking you to do your jobs, out loud.
CUPE Local 2722 · Oxfam Canada staff · Contract expired March 31, 2025
Inequality begins at home.
Sources: Salary figures are from the bargained wage grid in the collective agreement between Oxfam Canada and CUPE Local 2722 (Appendix II, grid effective April 1, 2024) and from Oxfam Canada's own T3010 Registered Charity Information Return filed with the CRA (Reg. #129716866 RR0001) for the fiscal year ending March 2024, public on the CRA Charities Listing (Charity Quick View). Article 18.02 caps bargained increases at the Consumer Price Index.