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Category: Policy Statement

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Our Workplaces
Defend Public Education 2019-2020

The labour movement has a deep commitment to ensuring that publicly funded education provides students the best possible education experience so they can succeed in life and participate in building a more just and equitable society.

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Our Society
The Climate Emergency

The global climate crisis is real. Canada’s Parliament has declared that we are in a national climate emergency – Canada is warming at twice the global rate. Forests and towns are burning, heatwaves claim more and more lives, and great cities now face once-in-a-century floods every few years.

Man holding a Labour Council banner at the Labour Day parade.
Our Society
Let’s Win Pharmacare for Call

Canada’s unions have led a long struggle for a national universal pharmacare program that will

Man holding a Labour Council banner at the Labour Day parade.
Our Society
Labour’s Commitment to Reproductive Justice

On May 15 the state of Alabama brought into law the Human Life Protection Act, which bans abortion in all cases except where the mother’s health is at risk.

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Labour Council
Taking on Big Fights in 2019

The Stewards Assembly on March 25th showed a hunger for action by leaders and activists across our movement.

Man holding a Labour Council banner at the Labour Day parade.
Our Workplaces
Open Letter on Bill 66

As one of the final acts of 2018, your Conservative government introduced legislation that would rip up all construction union agreements with cities, school boards, universities and hospitals.

Man holding a Labour Council banner at the Labour Day parade.
Our Society
Work for Justice

Unions were first formed to uphold the dignity of workers and to counter the abuse of power in the workplace. Since the earliest days, unions have also fought for social justice and for democracy – the ability of working people to affect the decisions that shape our lives.

Man holding a Labour Council banner at the Labour Day parade.
Our Society
The 1% Agenda

There will be an avalanche of change in Ontario in coming months, and little of it will benefit working people. The real power brokers in this province have a political agenda, both at Queen’s Park and the municipal level in greater Toronto.