4th February 2021 frankadmin Event

Taxi Drivers in Toronto – Past, Present and Future

Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 7:00-8:30 pm (Zoom) Join us for a brief history of taxi drivers in Toronto – their challenges, victories, and a future which has yet to be determined in large part due to services like Uber and Lyft. Facilitator:Aparna Sundar Aparna has worked extensively on taxi driver issues in Toronto and is a co-author of a report Toronto Taxi Drivers: Ambassadors of the CityA Report on Working Conditions Mohammed Ejaz Butt: Ejaz has been in many leadership

3rd February 2021 frankadmin Event

Celebrating and recognizing the contributions of Dudley Laws

As part of the Yes, It Matters! Addressing Systemic Racism Campaign, and in recognition and celebration of the contribution that Black people have made to Canada, please share the attached slide with your contacts. We encourage you to post the information on your website, send it out by email, tweets, and other electronic means Share This:

4th January 2021 frankadmin Book Club

TWHP Book Club – January 2021

January 28th – 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – via Zoom I am suggesting 4 books to read due to the limited availability. Participants only need to read one:From the Ground Up: An Italian Immigrants Story by Frank Colantonio (1 copy TPL)44 Hours or Strike! by Anne Dublin (7 copies TPL / Children’s)The Eaton Drive: the Campaign to Organize Canada’s Largest Department Store 1948 – 1952 by Eileen Sufrin (I copy TPL)The Voice of Labour: A Life in the Construction Industry by Marino Toppan ( 4 copies

4th January 2021 frankadmin Event

Transforming Brown to Green

VIDEO OF THE PRESENTATION CAN BE SEEN ON FACEBOOK AT:https://fb.watch/2_3qMal437/ Environmental Organizing in Toronto in the 1970sAn evening to look back at the environmental issues and organizing that took place in working class communities. Join our Zoom meeting Tuesday, 12 January, 20207:00 pm – 9:00 pm Join Zoom Meetinghttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83508937339?pwd=UnBnc2NrdGc4NUg1V0RIcENuNEZCQT09 Meeting ID: 835 0893 7339Passcode: 333911Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdZHEjdLHlor, join us on through our livestream on Facebookwww.fb.me/TOWorkers PANELISTS Harold Crooks Harold Crooks is a documentary film director and writer, best known for The Price We Pay (2014), Surviving

17th November 2020 frankadmin Event

Labour’s Antiques Road Show

History is not always found in books. It’s found in the stories of workers and their experiences. History is the telling of those stories. It’s also found in the objects they keep which remind them of the struggles and the gains they made to help all workers. Join us for a very special evening when workers share some of the memorabilia and storied items they’ve kept over the years. Often kept, and then left for those who survive them, these

5th November 2020 frankadmin Event

Slavery in Ontario

Coming 11 November, 2020 at 7:00 p.m.Slavery in Ontario ‘The Dearness of Labour’: Enslaved Labourers in Colonial OntarioNatasha Henry will discuss her PhD research on the Black people enslaved in colonial Ontario and how their lives as forced labourers enriched settler families and the development of the province. Natasha will share narratives of enslaved individuals to counter Black fungibility and restore the humanity of the enslaved. PANELIST Natasha Henry is the president of the Ontario Black History Society. She is an

15th October 2020 frankadmin Event

Chinese-Canadian Workers in Toronto (Zoom video)

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23rd September 2020 frankadmin Uncategorised

Chinese-Canadian Workers in Toronto

More than 4,000 Chinese workers died building the country’s first transcontinental railroad, yet most of the Chinese community faced discrimination and outright racism. Laws were specially created to oppress and exclude them. Yet they persevered. Our panelists will take us through more than a century of the experiences of Chinese-Canadians: fighting back, organising and leading the way for many others. Join the Toronto Workers’ History Project in this special livestreamed presentation. PANELISTS Winnie NgActivist, scholar, Chair Emeritus, Ryerson-Unifor National Chair

14th September 2020 frankadmin Uncategorised

Chilean-Canadian Memoria in Toronto

Click for the video on Facebook On September 11, 1973 the Chilean military under General Pinochet brutally attacked the democratically elected Popular Unity Government, killing President Salvador Allende and established a military junta that suspended civilian rule and killed, imprisoned and tortured thousands of Chileans. It was from this baptism of fire that the Chilean Canadian community built and re-built itself. On September 11, 2020 the TWHP will be holding a webinar about the churches and unions that campaigned to have

27th March 2020 Ed Dunsworth Uncategorised

Social History for Social Distancing

Like so much else, the Toronto Workers’ History Project is on hiatus as the world confronts the COVID-19 crisis. As promoters of workers’ history and participants in workers’ movements, we are thinking a lot these days about the front-line workers tasked with fighting the pandemic head-on: nurses (like those pictured above), doctors, and other medical staff. We are also in solidarity with those essential workers whose jobs require them to continue being out in the world, at heightened risk of infection:

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