Policy Statement
The Crisis in our Health Care “System”
For the first couple of years of COVID, the pandemic shone a light on the
Yaro
November 18, 2024
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Policy Statement
Why Every Vote Counts
In Toronto this year, with no big mayoral challenger for John Tory, there is a real risk that people will stay home on election day. That would be a mistake, because workers must elect progressive Toronto city councillors and school board trustees at the TDSB and TCDSB.
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November 18, 2024
Policy Statement
Education Fights This Fall – Defend Quality Publicly-Funded Education and the Workers Who Make It Happen
This fall, there will be a big fight to win fair collective agreements for all
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November 18, 2024
Policy Statement
Electing to Build A Liveable City – Together
This October, voters across Toronto and York Region will go to the polls to elect
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November 18, 2024
Policy Statement
Recent Mass Shootings in the USA – Where Hate and Gun Violence Converge
The deaths of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was shockingly the 27th school shooting in the United States in 2022. While those of us who are parents can feel the sorrow and grief of those mothers who will never see their children again, we are reminded that things do not have to be this way.
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November 18, 2024
Our Society
Response to the 2022 Election
At the end of election night – June 2nd, 2022 – the counting was over
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November 22, 2024
Our Society
Labour Council’s Statement on White Supremacy in Buffalo Shooting
The Toronto & York Region Labour Council is horrified and dismayed by another devastating and senseless racially-motivated act of hate.
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November 22, 2024
Our Workplaces
Canada’s Labour Unions Condemn the Raiding of UNITE HERE!Local 75 Royal York Hotel Union
The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), and the Toronto & York Region Labour Council (TYRLC) wholeheartedly condemn raiding and call on the labour movement to stand together for the benefit of all working people.
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November 18, 2024
Our Cities
The Real Cost of Doug Ford’s “Open For Business” Ontario
To see why the Conservatives deserve to be decisively voted out of office on June 2nd, take a look at what Labour Council Delegates have said about this government during its four years in power. Each statement accurately predicted the results of Ford’s decisions – the real costs.
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November 18, 2024
Our Society
Mr. Ford Gets It Wrong Again: Workers Vote for Good Jobs and Public Services, Not Free Licensing Stickers
In March 2022, the Ford government quietly scrapped equity hiring targets in arrangements for the $28.5 billion subway program (consisting of the Ontario Line, Yonge North Subway Extension, Scarborough Subway Extension, and Eglinton West LRT), undoing years of progress to bring women, people of colour, and Indigenous and Black residents into this well-paid workforce.
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November 22, 2024