| Please see below for info on these important events: MAY 1 – Join OPSEU/SEFPO & the OFL to Speak Up for Good Jobs, Worker’s Rights, Public Services and Strong Communities 12 PM – Toronto May Day Rally & Feeder March to Queen’s Park 2 PM – OFL Queen’s Park Rally for a Workers-First Agenda MAY 14 – Build the Fight for Climate Justice & the Environment 1 PM – Emergency in Ontario: Rally & March for Climate, Communities & Nature SAVE Our Community Courthouses Send an email to support the campaign to keep the community courts in Scarborough, North York and Etobicoke open! SAVE THE DATE – MAY 18 – GTAC Delegates & Activists Meeting Panel Discussion: Climate Justice, the Environmental Crisis and the Ontario Elections – What’s at Stake for Working People Please share this information with your OPSEU Region 5 networks. |
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| MAY 1 – Join GTAC & OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick at these Important Labour/Community Events 1) Toronto May Day Rally & Feeder March – 12 noon Join OPSEU/SEFPO President JP Hornick and labour & community activists from across Toronto to celebrate labour solidarity, build the campaign for workers’ rights, good jobs for all, social & climate justice and an end to cut backs and austerity… and join the feeder march to the OFL/Justice for Workers Mass Rally at Queen’s Park When: Sunday, May 1, 12 noon Where: Toronto City Hall/Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen St. W. at Bay St (Queen Subway) March: Starts at 1:30 pm, arrives at Queen’s Park at 2 pm Download the OPSEU flyer & share with your local OPSEU Meet-Up: Join us at 11:45 am inside Nathan Phillips Sq., east side, beside the large ramp up to the City Hall rooftop garden (see site map). – Bring your OPSEU flags and noisemakers! – Join, like and share the Facebook event Volunteers Needed: Please let us know in advance if you can help with I) Sign-Making Team – Sat. April 30, 2pm, 31 Wellesley St. (materials provided) II) OPSEU Set Up & Marshaling – Sun. May 1, 11:30 am, Nathan Phillips Square, east side. – Please email us at gtac@opseugtac.ca to confirm if you can help on either or both days. Please include your name, local number, personal email and cell #. ——————– 2) OFL/Justice for Workers Mass Rally for a Workers-First Agenda – 2 pm May 1 is the traditional day when working people rally to build solidarity and commit to the fight for a better future for all. It’s also just one month before Ontario’s June 2 election! That’s why the Ontario Federation of Labour and Justice for Workers have declared May 1 a Provincewide Day of Acton for a Better Ontario. It’s time to ramp up our campaign for worker’s rights, decent work, a $20 minimum wage, affordable housing, well-funded public services, climate justice, and an end to racism and oppression. When: Sunday, May 1, 2 pm Where: Queen’s Park, South Lawn at College St & University Ave (Queen’s Park Subway) – Bring your OPSEU flags, signs and noisemakers! – Join, like and share the Facebook event – For info on the Toronto rally, flyers & graphics: https://ofl.ca/event/may-1-toronto/ – For info on events in communities across Ontario: https://ofl.ca/event/may-1/ |
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| MAY 14 – Emergency in Ontario: Rally & March for Climate Justice, Communities & Nature – May 14, 1 pm Join GTAC, Climate Voice, Environmental Defence, and a broad coalition of environmental, labour & community organizations for a mass rally to demand climate justice, and defend nature, the environment and healthy, sustainable communities in Ontario. Join us to make the environment, the climate crisis and a just transition to a net-zero carbon future key issues during and after the Ontario election. Where: Queen’s Park, South Lawn When: Saturday, May 14, 1 pm – Bring your OPSEU flags and noisemakers! – Join, like and share the Facebook event OPSEU Meet-Up: Join us at 12 noon at the OPSEU Toronto Regional Office, 31 Wellesley St. East to build some signs, have a snack, and march together to the rally at Queen’s Park. Planing to join us? Please RSVP to gtac@opseugtac.ca! |
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| Stop Doug Ford’s Plan to Close Community Courthouses in Scarborough, North York & Etobicoke On April 21, OPSEU President JP Hornick joined representatives of the Ontario Crown Attorneys Association, the Society of United Professionals, and the Urban Alliance on Race Relations to call on the Ford government to halt its plans to close three community courthouses in North York, Etobicoke, and Scarborough. (See some of the news coverage here.) Closing these local courthouses will only increase the systemic barriers that working class, Black, Indigenous and other racialized communities face in achieving equal access justice and equal treatment before Ontario’s courts. The planned closing – and the transfer of these courts’ caseloads to the New Toronto Courthouse in downtown Toronto – also represents a real threat to public and workplace safety and the jobs of OPSEU members and others who work in Toronto’s provincial courts. Help Make Sure Ford Gets the Message! Click here to send a clear message to Doug Ford, Tory Attorney General Doug Downy and your own MPP: Our communities need access to community courts! ——————— SAVE THE DATE! Join GTAC at Our Monthly Delegates & Activists Meeting – May 18 Key agenda items include: > Panel Discussion: Climate Justice, the Environmental Crisis and the Ontario Elections – What’s at Stake for Working People > Updates on the June 2 Ontario election & outreach to OPSEU members and our communities for a workers-first agenda. More details to come. Hope to see you there! |
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