The Toronto & York Region Labour Council develops policies that provide analysis of current events or political challenges facing working people in greater Toronto and beyond. The shaping of these policies is informed by the lived experience of our front-line members in every sector of the economy, and every community in the region. Since 1871, Labour Council has been working for social, economic, racial and climate justice in our society.   

Recent

• End Arms Exports to Israel
  April 2024 
• Protecting the Right to Protest and Picket
  April 2024
• Fund Our Schools Campaign Launch
  March 2024
• Enough is Enough: Applying the OFL’s Action Plan in Toronto and York Region
  January 2024
• Toronto & York Region Joins the Call for an Immediate Ceasefire (Israel - Palestine)
  November 2023
• OFL Resolutions 2023
  October 2023
• Together We Can Build A City for Everyone
  July 2023
• Westray Law: If Workers Don't Get Prevention, They Must Get Justice
  May 2023
• Action Plan for the 2023 Toronto Mayoral By-Election
  April 2023
• This is Our Chance
  March 2023
• Fighting for a City Budget that Reflects the Values of Working People
  February 2023
• Follow the Money: Who profits from Bill 23 and Bill 39?
  January 2023
• Letter Opposing Bill 23 and Its Impact on the Greenbelt
  November 2022
• Legislation to Impose an Unfair Contract and the Notwithstanding Clause - They’re Coming For the Rest of Us
  November 2022
• The Crisis in our Health Care “System”
  November 2022
• Education Fights This Fall - Defend Quality, Publicly - Funded Education And The Workers Who Make This Happen
  October 2022
• Why Every Vote Counts
  October 2022
• Electing To Build A Liveable City - Together
  September 2022
• Recent Mass Shootings in the USA – Where Hate and Gun Violence Converge
  June 2022
  

Our Cities

• The Real Cost of Doug Ford's "Open For Business" Ontario
  May 2022
• Moving Ahead Together – Community Solidarity Toronto: A Response to the Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada
  March 2022
• Action Plan for the 2022 Municipal Election
  February 2022
• TransformTO: Toronto's Heavy Lifting for the Planet
  January 2022
• The Ford Government Just Doesn't Work for Workers
  January 2022
• Violent Encampment Evictions and the Affordable Housing Crisis – Two Sides of the Same Coin
  October 2021
• One Year Of COVID
  March 2021
• A Roof Over Our Head
  November 2020
• SafeSeptember
  September 2020
• Cities Need Help
  June 2020
• Don't Steal Our Subway
  January 2019
• 2018 Municipal Elections Outcome
  November 2018
• 21st Century Learning
  April 2018
• ActionPlan: 2018 Municipal Election
  November 2017
• TYRLC Submission on Divisional Strategy for Economic Development & Culture
  October 2017
• The Long Saga of TCHC
  May 2017
• City of Toronto Finances
  Dec 2016
• Special Education "Realignment"
  November 2016
• Those Who Care for Our Children
  October 2016
• Death of Abdirahman Abdi
  September 2016 
• Toronto2016 and Beyond
  June 2016 
• Model of Good Governance for Toronto District School Board Submission
  June 2015
• Defend Democracy &Community Schools
  February 2015
• Transit for the Public Good
  January 2012

Our Workplaces

• Canada’s Labour Unions Condemn the Raiding of UNITE HERE! Local 75 Royal York Hotel Union
  May 2022
• Make Gig Work Decent Work
  October 2021
• 150 Years of Working for Justice
  January 2021
• Justice for Migrant Sex Workers
  June 2021
• Urgent - Legislate Paid Sick Time!
  February 2021
• Keep Fighting for Workers' Rights
  March 2020
• Stand With Teachers and Education Workers
  February 2020
• Defend Public Education 2019-2020
  October 2019
• Protect Public Education
  April 2019
• Open Letter on Bill 66
  January 2019
• Tim Hortons, $14 & Respect
  February 2018
• Holiday Shopping
  Dec 2017
• Keep Up The Fight For Fairness
  June 2017
• Protecting Good Jobs
  January 2017
• Safe School Environment for All
  October 2016
• Closing Gender Wage Gap
  April 2016
• Fix Labour Law & Employment Stds
  March 2015

Our Society

• Response to the 2022 Ontario Election
  June 2022
• Labour Council's Statement on White Supremacy in Buffalo Shooting
  May 2022
• Mr. Ford Gets It Wrong Again: Workers Vote for Good Jobs and Public Services, Not Free License Stickers
  April 2022
• Voting for A Just Recovery
  September 2021
• Déjà Vu – #SafeSeptember 2021
  July 2021
• Statement on Hate Attack in London, Ontario
  June 2021
• Rise Up for A Just Recovery
  June 2021
• Democracy is the Essence of Our Movement
  May 2021
• Making Good Trouble: Dismantling System Racism
  May 2021
• The Race To The Bottom
  April 2021
• Dismantling Anti-Asian Racism
  April 2021
• Take Profit Out Of Long-Term Care
  February 2021
• Ontario Disgraced
  January 2021
• Just Recovery for Ontario
  October 2020
• Zero Tolerance for Racism at Work
  July 2020
• Unfinished Business: Community Safety and Racism in Policing
  June 2020
• Racism on the Front Page
  June 2020
• Two Years of Turmoil
  June 2020
• Immorality and Corporate Greed
  May 2020
• Responses to COVID-19 and Beyond
  April 2020
• Labour Council Stands in Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en Nation
  March 2020
• The Climate Emergency
  August 2019
• Let's Win Pharmacare For All
  July 2019
• Labour's Commitment to Reproductive Justice
  June 2019
• Lessons from Year One: Organize, Educate, Resist!
  May 2019
• Priorities for the 2019 Ontario Budget
  January 2019
• Defend Good Jobs
  Dec 2018
• The 1% Agenda
  November 2018
• Playing From the Handbook
  October 2018
• Work For Justice
  September 2018
• The Abuse of Power Begins
  August 2018
• Moving to a state of readiness
  July 2018
• Next 4 Years in Ontario
  June 2018
• Toronto Tragedy
  May 2018
• AfterMeToo
  Dec 2017
• Floods, Fires & 2deg Climate Change
  October 2017
• TaxFairnessMatters
  September 2017
• Charlottesville & Hate
  September 2017
• Challenging Racism & Discrimination
  July 2017
• Step Up & Speak Out
  April 2017
• We Own It -Let's Keep It
  March 2017
• Our Shared Humanity
  February 2017
• End Violence Agains Sex Workers
  January 2017
• Anti-Racism Directorate Submission
  September 2016
• War & Consequences
  August 2016
• Make Every Vote Count
  July 2016
• 145yrs of Working Together for Justice
  April 2016
• Ontario Budget 2016
  March 2016
• Keep Toronto Hydro Public
  February 2016
• After Paris: COP21 Climate Change
  January 2016
• Canada with a Liberal Majority_
  November 2015
• Democracy and Elections
  August 2015
• Stop Hydro Privatization
  May 2015
• Jobs, Justice, Climate
  June 2015
• Crown & Corporate Greed in Canada
  March 2015
• We are all Canadian
  February 2015
• Two years after Danzig
• After the 2014 Ontario Election
  July 2014
• Ontario Election 2014
  June 2014
• Make 2014 a year of Justice
  January 2014
• Five years after the ground shook
  September 2013
• Police Conduct and accountability
  September 2013
• Together Fairness Works
  July 2013
• EI + FTWP = Bad Policy
  February 2013
• Community Benefits Agreements
  January 2013
• Labour Rights and Civil Rights
  September 2012
• Good Jobs, Strong Services & Respect: Recommendations for Violence Prevention
  August 2012
• Anti-Worker Government
  June 2012

Labour Council

• Climate Justice is Union Business
  November 2021
• Democracy is the Essence of Our Movement
  May 2021
• 150 Years of Working Together for Justice
  January 2021
• Strategic Plan 2020-2022
  November 2019
• Collective Bargaining, Political Bargaining
  October 2019
• Taking on Big Fights in 2019
  April 2019
• Using Bill148 Tools for EconomicJustice
  November 2017
• Strategic Plan 2016-2019
  November 2016
• Cost of NOT organizing
  May 2016
• Minimum Wage Presentation
  September 2013
• Joint Declaration -Toronto & York Labour Council, Conseil Regional FTQ Montreal Metropolitan
  January 2013
• Building Resistance to Austerity
  October 2012
• Strategic Plan 2012-2015
  June 2012