Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly

The GTWA holds monthly general membership meetings in order to shape our organization, discuss politics and plan our work. Members are encouraged to attend and take part. Supporters and observers are welcome.
Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly April General Membership Meeting

The GTWA holds monthly general membership meetings in order to shape our organization, discuss politics and plan our work. Members are encouraged to attend and take part. Supporters and observers are welcome, contact us at workingclassfightback@gmail.com for information.

The GTWA holds monthly general membership meetings in order to discuss politics and plan our work. Members are encouraged to attend and take part. Supporters and observers are welcome. 
 

Public forum hosted by: Internal Education and Political Development Committee and the International Solidarity Committee of the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly; Toronto Haiti Action Committee; and Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network

Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly pamphlet series no. 6

Fight the Electro-Motive Lockout – Move the Struggle Forward

On a bitter cold London, Ontario day on December 11, 1995, tens of thousands of trade unionists and community activists converged in the first of the celebrated Ontario Days of Action. Workers struck employers in a one-day general strike against the attacks on working people by the Mike Harris Conservatives. There was a mass demonstration, feelings of excitement, and a new confidence in a movement that told the government and employers that working people would not allow the province to continue business as usual until the government backed off its horrendous policies.

In 2012 workers in Toronto face a large coordinated attack on jobs and services. We must resist, again, as workers have resisted throughout history. In order to develop creative, innovative resistant strategies as we fight to win, we can look to our own history - and present - of class struggle to see what others have done and how we can learn from them.

6:00pm

GTWA Winter Assembly: Strategy Sessions: Solidarity! Resistance! Change! 2012 

NB - rescheduled to the 27th.

How Toronto city workers can win in the fight against Ford.

According to certain superstitions, the Mayan calendar predicts the end of the world in 2012. While 2012 will certainly be chaotic, one need not look to the stars: there are much more earthly battles ahead. Forget about December 21st, 2012, the end of the Mayan calendar. The date to keep an eye on is December 31st, 2011, the end of city contracts. Our longest winter begins January 1st.

In 1981, Ronald Reagan took on and smashed PATCO, the Air Traffic Controllers. The American labour movement expressed outrage but did nothing. This sealed the fate of American workers for over three decades. Toronto's mayor, Rob Ford, has declared war on city-workers. He intends to smash unions. This is our PATCO moment.