Toronto actions to support postal workers, child care workers and more!

November 21, 2024

Over 50 people joined the Toronto organizing meeting on Tuesday to fight for decent work and build support for all the workers taking on bad bosses. Check out photos of the organizing meeting on Facebook. 

Below are the actions we agreed to organize. Hope you can come to them!

Support Postal Workers

Picket line visits this Friday and Saturday 

Justice for Workers is hosting 2 picket line visits to support striking postal workers: 

Postering around Dovercourt Post Office

Let's make our support for postal workers visible. RSVP to our first run of postal worker postering around the Dovercourt Post Office on Friday, from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm at 1016 Bloor Street West.

J4W Postal Workers Solidarity WhatsApp group

Join our J4W Postal Worker WhatsApp group to organize for Postal Worker solidarity. You’ll get action alerts about picket line visits, postering runs, and social media actions.

P.S If you aren't using WhatsApp, you can download the app on your phone or you can get WhatsApp for your desktop.

For more ideas to support postal workers read our J4W action update.

 

Universal & Affordable Child Care NOW! 

The $10 a day child care plan is a game-changer, but the Ontario government needs to fully fund decent wages for child care workers to make it a reality for all families. Without decent wages, there simply won’t be enough staff who can afford to do this work and we won’t be able to meet the urgent demand for child care.

Already some child care centres have cut workers’ wages to make ends meet – this is unacceptable. Making matters worse, for-profit operators are pulling out of the $10 a day plan, so they can maximize profit by charging higher fees to desperate parents who can’t find another space for their kids.

If we don’t act now, the result could be a two-tiered system of child care, where those with money can get the care they need, while the rest of us struggle to find quality, affordable child care. That’s why the pan-Canadian coalition - Child Care Now - has called for 10 Days of Action for universal and affordable child care.

Emergency phone action November 26

Justice for Workers is partnering with Early Childhood Educators of Ontario (AECEO), to organize an online phone action, on Tuesday, November 26 from 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. 

We’ll be calling Premier Doug Ford and Education Minister Jill Dunlop and demand they act now to fix the looming child care crisis in Ontario. Join us to support $10 a day child care AND decent wages for all staff. 

Scarborough forum November 24

On Sunday, November 24 from 3:00 pm to 5:30 pm, the South Asian Women’s and Immigrants’ Service (SAWIS) is hosting a childcare forum led by mothers and child care workers. It’s taking place at the West Scarborough Neighbourhood Community Centre at 313 Pharmacy Avenue. 


TONIGHT: Decent Work at University of Toronto

Join us tonight, Thursday, November 21 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm, at the University of Toronto, St George Campus for a organizing meeting about inflation, affordability and what decent work on campus can look like. 

This meeting will include a teach-in about inflation and a group discussion about decent and climate just work at U of T. Refreshments will be provided.

Decent work for ALL! 

Tell Premier Ford to stop wage theft

Workers at Sunrise Caribbean Restaurant are fighting back against wage theft, where workers are owed more than $94,000 in unpaid wages. We need stronger laws and proactive enforcement to stop bad bosses from stealing our wages–at Sunrise Caribbean and in all Ontario workplaces.

Help stop the wage theft by sending an email calling on Premier Ford hold bad bosses accountable.  

 

Santa’s Elves need a raise - Outreach Blitz

Join us for an outreach blitz on Sunday, December 1, at 12 noon outside the Dufferin TTC station. Together, we’ll talk with our neighbours about why we need better workplace laws to protect everyone. Decent work means raising the minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, 10+ paid sick days and much more!

This outreach blitz is also an opportunity to talk about why postal workers are right to stand up for good local jobs and put the brakes on the growth of temporary, unstable, part-time work at Canada Post.

 

Community Events

Theatre Passe Muraille performance: ERASED 

The play: Erased draws us into a greeting card factory in a post-climate collapse world, where workers are forced to meet a quota, making ridiculous greeting cards while trying to survive within the machinery that controls and erases them.

A surreal marriage of absurdism, dark comedy, political theatre and poetry, Erased explores how the kindling of a soft revolution turns to flame, igniting the spirit of resistance that keeps it alive. 

The play runs from November 20 to November 30. Check the website for more information and to get tickets. Tickets are “pay what you can” starting at $15.00. If you want to see the play, but can’t afford $15, email us at [email protected]. 


Mayworks Labour Arts Awards Gala & Fundraiser  

Mayworks is an annual festival of working people and the arts. Each year in November, Mayworks hosts an Awards Gala and Fundraiser, to honour workers and artists who have contributed to social change. The event is taking place on November 29 from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm. Visit the Mayworks website for more information and to get tickets.

This year’s Gala is dedicated to the memory of the late artist Carole Condé, one of Mayworks’s founders who dedicated her life to building an art practice centered around revolutionary social change.