The Toronto & York Region Labour Council has long played a role in the broader labour movement. From convening the first national union gathering, to organizing on key issues to CLC conventions, we have a strong tradition that values the role of local activism informing and powering national campaigns.
Since the Toronto Joint Labour Committee for Human Rights was formed, this Labour Council has fought racism and systemic discrimination in our workplaces, in our society and within our local unions.
The Toronto Transit Commission is the latest example of a public sector organization incomprehensibly contracting out vital public services as an austerity measure.
Every day we see the shocking loss of life and neglect in long-term care in
Doug Ford’s Conservative government has shown its true colours with the awarding of the Order
In December 2015 three dozen delegates from Canada’s labour movement attended the United Nations summit on climate change (COP21) in Paris.
Canadians are reeling from the news of COVID’s second wave spreading across communities and generations.
Toronto was shocked by a racist hate crime at a construction site at Michael Garron Hospital on June 10th. Two nooses were hung at the workplace, as a sick reminder of the lynching of thousands of Black men in the United States.
Nobody was surprised that Doug Ford and his MPPs promoted an aggressive pro-business agenda after they were elected in June 2018. We knew the Conservatives – and Ford and his allies on Toronto City Council – had a bad track record.
The world was shocked and outraged to see the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman carried out while onlookers pleaded for his life. The words “I can’t breathe” – which marked the dying breaths of Eric Garner in New York in 2014 – were repeated by George Floyd as the policeman’s knee crushed his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.
