Policy Statements

Recent Statements

TYRLC Statement: Using Unionized Labour and Community Benefits for FIFA and Future Major Events

TYRLC Statement: Pride and Indigenous Heritage Month Requires Real Solidarity

TYRLC Statement: Justice for Injured Workers Means Reforming WSIB

Action Plan for the 2026 Municipal Election

Strategic Plan 2025-2028

Resolutions for the 2026 CLC Convention

TYRLC Statement: Raising the Luxury Homes Tax and Other Steps to Prevent Service Cuts in Toronto’s 2026 Annual Budget

Resisting Ford’s Attacks on Workers, Tenants, Students and Communities

Resolutions Coming Forward Directly to Delegates – Oct 2025

End State Interference in Bargaining! Repeal Section 107 of the Labour Code!

Labour Council Condemns Unlawful Detention & Assault of Chris Smalls

Liberal PM Mark Carney Needs to Advance Labour Rights

Ford Leads Charge Against Democracy

Where Does the Labour Movement Go From Here?

Federal Election: Urgent Action Needed to Protect Workers from the Trade War

Labour’s Response to Trump Tariffs

FIGHT FOR A BETTER ONTARIO

Fight for A Better Future!

Unite to Defeat the Right

Breaking the Cycle: Demanding Action for Racialized Youth and Safer

Injured Workers Bill of Rights

Protecting the Right to Protest and Picket

Our Cities

TYRLC Statement: Using Unionized Labour and Community Benefits for FIFA and Future Major Events

Action Plan for the 2026 Municipal Election

TYRLC Statement: Raising the Luxury Homes Tax and Other Steps to Prevent Service Cuts in Toronto’s 2026 Annual Budget

The Real Cost of Doug Ford’s “Open For Business” Ontario

Moving Ahead Together – Community Solidarity TO: A Response to the Rise of the Alt-Right in Canada

Action Plan for the 2022 Municipal Election

The Ford Government Just Doesn’t Work for Workers

TransformTO: Toronto’s Heavy Lifting for the Planet

Violent Camp Evictions and the Affordable Housing Crisis – Two Sides of the Same Coin

One Year of Covid

2018 Municipal Election Outcomes

A Roof Over Our Head

#SafeSeptember

Cities Need Help

21st Century Learning

Action Plan for the 2018 Municipal Election

TYRLC Submission on Divisional Strategy for Economic Development & Culture

The Long Saga of TCHC

City of Toronto Finances

Special Education “Realignment”

Those Who Care for Our Children

Death of Abdirahman Abdi

Toronto 2016 and Beyond

Our Workplaces

Our Society

TYRLC Statement: Pride and Indigenous Heritage Month Requires Real Solidarity

Resisting Ford’s Attacks on Workers, Tenants, Students and Communities

End State Interference in Bargaining! Repeal Section 107 of the Labour Code!

Labour Council Condemns Unlawful Detention & Assault of Chris Smalls

Liberal PM Mark Carney Needs to Advance Labour Rights

Ford Leads Charge Against Democracy

Where Does the Labour Movement Go From Here?

Federal Election: Urgent Action Needed to Protect Workers from the Trade War

Labour’s Response to Trump Tariffs

FIGHT FOR A BETTER ONTARIO

Fight for A Better Future!

Breaking the Cycle: Demanding Action for Racialized Youth and Safer

Injured Workers Bill of Rights

Response to the 2022 Election

Labour Council’s Statement on White Supremacy in Buffalo Shooting

Mr. Ford Gets It Wrong Again: Workers Vote for Good Jobs and Public Services, Not Free Licensing Stickers

Voting for A Just Recovery

Déjà Vu – #SafeSeptember 2021

Labour Council Statement on Hate Attack in London, Ontario

Rise Up for A Just Recovery

Making Good Trouble: Dismantling Systemic Racism

Democracy is the Essence of Our Movement

Dismantle Anti-Asian Racism

The Race to the Bottom

Take Profit Out of Long-Term Care

Ontario Disgraced

After Paris: COP21 Climate Change

A Just Recovery in Ontario

Zero Tolerance for Racism at Work

Two Years of Turmoil

Racism on the Front Page

Unfinished Business: Community Safety and Racism in Policing

Immorality and Corporate Greed

Responses to COVID-19 and Beyond

Labour Council Stands in Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Nation

Defend Good Jobs

The Climate Emergency

Let’s Win Pharmacare for Call

Labour’s Commitment to Reproductive Justice

Lessons of Year One – Organize, Educate, Resist!

Work for Justice

The 1% Agenda

Playing From The Handbook

The Abuse of Power Begins

Moving to A State of Readiness

The Next Four Years in Ontario

Toronto Tragedy and Our Shared Humanity

After #MeToo: Labour’s Role in Addressing Gender-based Violence

Floods, Fires, and 2 Degrees of Climate Chage

Tax Fairness Matters

Charlottesville and Hate

Challenging Racism and Discrimination

Step Up and Speak Out

We Own It – Let’s Keep It

Our Shared Humanity

End Violence Against Sex Workers

Toronto & York Region Labour Council Submission to the Hearings on an Anti-Racism Directorate

War and Consequences

Make Every Vote Count

145 Years of Working Together for Justice

Ontario Budget 2016

Keep Toronto Hydro Public

Canada With A Liberal Majority

Democracy and Elections

Jobs, Justice, Climate

Stop Hydro Privatization

Crown and Corporate Greed in Canada

We Are All Canadian

After the 2014 Ontario Election

Two Years After Danzig

Labour Council