Deena Ladd has been working to improve wages and working conditions in sectors
of work that are dominated with low-wages, violations of rights, precarious and
part-time work for the past 26 years. She has worked to support and develop
community organizing spaces and grassroots organizations such as Migrant
Workers' Alliance for Change, Decent Work and Health Network and Ontario's Fight
for $15 and Fairness. Deena is one of the founders and a co-ordinator of the
Toronto Workers' Action Centre. The Workers' Action Centre organizes to improve
wages and working conditions with low-waged workers, women, racialized and
immigrant workers in precarious jobs that face discrimination, violations of
rights and no benefits in the workplace.
Read our letter in support of bus-only lanes and other transit priority measures on Queens Quay East, Parliament Street and Front Street West to ensure thousands of residents along growing waterfront communities and students attending George Brown College have reliable bus service.
(Toronto, Ontario) – Transit and environmental groups across Canada are celebrating a commitment by Liberal leadership candidate Frank Baylis to increase the Canada Public Transit Fund. Federal Liberal Party leadership candidates were surveyed about their transit commitments by Environmental Defence, TTCriders, Movement: Metro Vancouver Transit Riders, Trajectoire Québec, Activate Transit Windsor Essex, and Équiterre.