Chinese Workers Network

Credit: George Calvo, OPSEU SEFPO Retiree

ChInese Workers Network Lunar New Year 2025 Welcome to the Year of the Snake and their fantastic banquet. Its a welcoming experience to see many Top Politicians such as the mayor Olivia and what she'...

Toronto & York Region Labour Council invited Ruth Lor Malloy to mark the 70th anniversary of Canada’s first racial discrimination court case testing the Ontario Fair Accommodations Practices Act. Ruth Lor Malloy, age 92, is a Canadian activist played a significant role in the highly publicized Dresden, Ontario restaurant sit-in of 1954. The protest brought attention to racist attitudes among local restaurant owners, as many refused to serve non-white patrons despite racial discrimination being illegal in the province. In 2023, Barclay Press published her book "Brightening My Corner a Memoir of Dreams Fulfilled" and York University gave her an honorary doctorate for her "tireless efforts to combat discrimination and promote equality in Canada and beyond".

FRIDAY: Join the Chinese Workers Network celebrate Mid-Autumn festival and acknowledge National Day Truth and Reconciliation.

Featuring the screening of the film "Chinatown Rising."

⏰ Friday, September 27th at 7PM
📍OPSEU Office, 155 Lesmill Road (Free Parking)

Chinese Workers Network standing in solidarity with LCBO workers. One day longer, one day stronger! This is what democracy looks like!

Join Toronto & York Region Labour Council's Diverse Workers Networks tomorrow to support Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) members at the LCBO on strike!

⏰ Tuesday, July 9th at 5:45PM
📍 LCBO at Yonge and Wellesley, 547 Yonge Street

Organized by Toronto & York Region Labour Council's Diverse Workers Network:

Chinese Workers Network
Somali Worker's Network
Tamil Workers Network
Filipinos Workers Network

Want to get more involved? Sign the letter in our Linktree below and tell the Ford government to give workers a fair deal and Keep the LCBO public!

https://linktr.ee/labourcouncil

Happy Asian Heritage Month! Happy May Day or International Workers Day! We celebrated with a screening of Big Fight in Little Chinatown followed by a discussion with director Karen Cho, and advocates of community land trusts and public banking, Chiyi Tam and Yamen Amin.

Toronto Chinatown Land Trust
Jane's Walk

May 4, 2024 11:00 AM - May 4, 2024 12:30 PM

Cecil Community Centre (Cecil St and Spadina Ave)

Public registration for our guided walking tour on May 4 is now open, register here by donation. Members of TCLT should directly email info@chinatownlandtrust to RSVP.

Details: Tour Leaders will be waving a large tote bag with the TCLT logo on it.

See West Chinatown through the lens of the newly established Toronto Chinatown Land Trust. We will stop at sites that represent historical and current battlegrounds of anti-displacement. You will learn about different generations of tactics that neighbourhood organizers and workers employed to ‘Save Chinatown’ along with histories of how this Chinatown came to be. We will also tour the historical clan associations that have stewarded buildings through non-profit ownership, cooperative banking and mutual aid practices for over a hundred years. Enjoy this galvanizing tour, which will be sprinkled with facilitated reflection prompts for participants, sitting breaks, printed photos and led by Chiyi Tam - urban planner & the managing director of the Toronto Chinatown Land Trust.

May 4, 2024 11:00 AM - May 4, 2024 12:30 PM

Cecil Community Centre (Cecil St and Spadina Ave)

Tour stops include:

Cecil Community Centre
What used to be the Hsin Kuang Centre / Bright Pearl Restaurant
315 Spadina construction site
Wong Clan Association
Huron Square
Jean Lumb Lane
Cambodian Association House
Chinatown Centre

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