The strategies adopted by the Campaign for Public Education helped build huge public support for an education fightback. The CPE’s efforts, combined with similar ones across the province, was a key factor in the Conservative regime’s defeat in 2003.

Hotel Workers Rising was a continent-wide campaign by the hospitality workers union UNITEHERE to raise standards in the hotel industry and secure organizing rights for new workplaces. Toronto was one
of eleven cities united in a co-ordinated bargaining strategy.

The fight to defend the jobs of nearly a thousand cleaners at the City of Toronto in 2011-12 pitted the city’s labour movement against Mayor Rob Ford and his City Council majority. The campaign won against all odds by claiming the moral high ground and shifting the debate to focus on the impact of poverty jobs in society.

CUPE Local 4948 shows how labour can build a powerful coalition – on a strong foundation of engaged union members.

The Chinese Workers Network (CWN), was founded in 2012 to address
the key question of building labour power in Canada’s largest urban
centre.

The Toronto Community Benefits Network (TCBN) is a 100-member strong community-labour partnership created to ensure that public infrastructure and development projects provide real economic benefits to local communities.

This is the decade when the world’s billionaires are transforming into trillionaires, and income inequality is reaching levels last seen in the epochs of emperors and kings.