Parkdale Community Legal Services marks million-dollar milestone in helping ‘precarious’ workers
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Parkdale Community Legal Services marks million-dollar milestone in helping ‘precarious’ workers\nTORONTO, January 31, 2014 – Although precarious employment grows in Ontario, many workers in these poorly paid, insecure and unprotected jobs do fight back.\nParkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS), which was established in 1971 and was the first community-based legal aid clinic in Ontario, has been fortunate enough to work with some of these workers in their struggle.\nSince April 2011, PCLS and the workers it represented have recovered more than $1 million in unpaid wages, wrongful dismissal damages, and other employment entitlements.\nTo celebrate the $1 million milestone while also reflecting on the continuing work that must be done in the area of workers’ rights, PCLS will be hosting an event open to everyone on Saturday, February 1, 2014. PCLS administrators and students will be available for media interviews.\nWHEN: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 1.30 to 4 p.m.\nWHERE: Basement Auditorium, Toronto Parkdale Public Library, 1303 Queen St. W., Toronto, ON M6K 1L6\nPCLS, which is funded by Osgoode Hall Law School of York University and Legal Aid Ontario, provides progressive legal services for marginalized individuals and communities, as well as clinical education for law students in a poverty law setting. Hundreds of Osgoode students have participated in the Poverty Law Intensive Program at PCLS since its founding 43 years ago.\nA recent report, entitled “It’s More than Poverty,” prepared by the Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario (PEPSO) research group, a joint university-community initiative funded by United Way Toronto, McMaster University, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council/Community University Research Alliances project, found that precarious employment is increasing.\nOnly 60% of GTA workers today have stable, secure jobs with benefits, and that is having harmful effects on individuals, families and community life.\n-30-\nYork University is helping to shape the global thinkers and thinking that will define tomorrow. York U’s unwavering commitment to excellence reflects a rich diversity of perspectives and a strong sense of social responsibility that sets us apart. A York U degree empowers graduates to thrive in the world and achieve their life goals through a rigorous academic foundation balanced by real-world experiential education. As a globally recognized research centre, York U is fully engaged in the critical discussions that lead to innovative solutions to the most pressing local and global social challenges. York U’s 11 faculties and 27 research centres are thinking bigger, broader and more globally, partnering with 288 leading universities worldwide. York U's community is strong − 55,000 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, and more than 250,000 alumni. Media Contact: Virginia Corner, Communications Manager, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 416-736-5820, vcorner@osgoode.yorku.ca
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.240 | 0.051 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".