The largest democratic and popular organization in Canada with over three million members, bringing together Canada's national and international unions, the provincial and territorial federations of labour and 136 district labour councils.
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The Federation speaks for 700,000 organized Ontario workers and provides its affiliated labour councils and local unions with services in the fields of communications, education, research, legislative and political action, human rights, health and safety, workers' compensation and basic education skills.
Toronto based Workers’ Action Centre is a worker-based organization committed to improving the lives and working conditions of workers in low-wage and precarious employment. We want to make sure that workers have a voice at work and are treated with dignity and fairness.
The Good Jobs for All Coalition is an alliance of community, labour, social justice, youth and environmental organizations in the Toronto region. It was formed in 2008 to start a focused dialogue on how to improve living and working conditions in Canada's largest urban centre.
The chemicals all around us hurting the most vulneratble, our children. DVD and resource guide in support of Women's Healthly Environments Network (WHEN)
In Toxic Trespass, intrepid filmmaker Barri Cohen launches an investigation into the effects of the chemical soup around us. She starts with her 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT. Then, Cohen heads out to Windsor and Sarnia: Canadian toxic hotspots, with startling clusters of deadly diseases.
The Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting (CCIR) exists to produce thoroughly researched reporting in the public interest.
Centre work is independent, and will aim to: Advance education by conducting methodological research on subjects of significant public benefit to Canadians, such as First Nations governance and issues related to the criminal justice system, and to disseminate such research to the public.
Justicia-Justice for Migrant Workers(J4MW) is a volunteer run political, autonomous, non-profit collective comprised of activists from diverse walks of life (including community labour activists, "popular" and academic educators, researchers, students and youth of colour) based in Toronto, Ontario, Vancouver, British Columbia, and a now with a new base in Guelph, ON. We are engaged in this work alongside our personal commitments and numerous social justice struggles.
J4MW strives to promote the rights of migrant farmworkers (participating in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the Low Skilled Workers Program) and farmworkers without status.
International
Fair Labor Association (FLA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide. Since 1999, the FLA has helped improve the lives of thousands of workers around the globe. By bringing together multiple stakeholders, calling for greater accountability and transparency from manufacturers, factories and others involved in global supply chains, and creating lasting solutions to exploitative labor practices, we are making steady progress toward fulfilling our mission: protecting workers’ rights and improving working conditions worldwide.
The Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN) is a labour and women's rights organization that supports the efforts of workers in global supply chains to win improved wages and working conditions and a better quality of life.
It has been the historic role of trade unionism, and remains its mission, to better the conditions of work and life of working women and men and their families, and to strive for human rights, social justice, gender equality, peace, freedom and democracy.