At the small windowless office, NGWF members share a thermos of tea and learn about their constitutional rights as workers.
In December 2013, Canada's highest court, the Supreme Court of Canada, unanimously struck down Canada's core prostitution laws, deeming them unconstitutional for violating sex workers' constitutional rights, including the ability to protect themselves from violence, abuse and HIV/STIs.
The judge in the case ruled that even though the act of prostitution is not illegal in Canada, Parliament has seen fit to criminalise most aspects of prostitution and that these provisions violated sex workers' constitutional right by forcing sex workers to choose between their liberty interest and their right to security of person as protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
That is because many states have legal and constitutional provisions protecting existing workers' pension rights.
In general, public workers have constitutional and contractual protections for their benefits that their private counterparts do not.
National Labour Relations Board v Noel Canning asks whether Mr Obama's three appointments on January 4th, 2012 to the NLRB, the five-member federal agency that resolves disputes between companies and workers, were constitutional.
Chief Judge Andrew Cheung, writing for the three-member panel of the High Court, said that an immigration ordinance restricting residency rights for domestic workers was constitutional, a decision that strikes down a local court ruling from September.
But as an indication of the political influence of the disabled, 14 states, including New York and Connecticut, filed briefs opposing Alabama and supporting the constitutional right of disabled workers to collect damages from states under the federal law.
The Illinois Supreme Court must decide whether or not the state's pension crisis is dire enough to override the constitutional mandate that public workers will not see cuts to their pension benefits.
The government passed legislation strengthening worker protections, including a 1940 constitutional amendment prohibiting employers from submitting their workers to "conditions analogous to slavery".
