More than 800 Toronto Gate Gourmet airline catering workers represented by Teamsters Local 647 are now on strike at Toronto Pearson Airport against wage cuts and hazardous work conditions.

Hundreds of AGO workers represented by OPSEU Local 535 are on strike after years of wage cuts and precarity.

Public transit isn’t in a “death spiral.” On the contrary. Many regions and cities are experiencing an increase in transit use. This is due to the price of fuel, maintenance, and insurance that are required to own a car. Meanwhile, riders are being met with service cuts, empty promises, and elected leaders playing politics with transit funding. 

After over a decade of deep cuts to public transit and social housing, and expanded police spending under right-wing mayors, Olivia Chow was elected mayor eight months ago promising real “change.”

But the changes she’s implemented have not improved life for working-class people anywhere.

“We need to shut down this campus and bring down York’s union-busting, anti-Palestinian bosses. They, like the capitalist classes as a whole, have no right to rule.”

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has issued an injunction against striking workers at the Fresh Del Monte distribution centre in Oshawa. 

The labour movement must unite behind the workers on the picket lines to fight this attack.

On Jan. 8, four peaceful activists involved in the pro-Palestine movement began trial for vandalizing the storefront of an Indigo bookstore at Bay and Bloor in Toronto. Along with seven others, these activists, now known as the “Peace 11,” splashed red paint and glued photographs of Indigo’s CEO, Heather Reisman, with the words “Funding Genocide” below her face.They were then slapped with the trumped-up charges of conspiracy, mischief, and criminal harassment, which could land them in prison for up to 10 years—all for splashing some paint and putting up some posters. This charge is utterly ridiculous, and must be exposed by the entire movement as an attempt to intimidate and silence all those who stand against Israel’s crimes.

January 2024 won’t be the beginning of a happy new year for 30-40 unionized Chapters workers in Scarborough who are organized with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1006A. As of Jan. 27 these workers will be facing a store closure.

While Chapters cites a lack of profitability following a “standard business review,” it’s clear that this is being used as a pretext to attack one of the few Chapters stores in the country which are unionized.

As the Israeli state esclate their genocidal campaign in Gaza, the York University administration have also ramped up their campaign of silencing the student movement for denouncing this genocide.

How can a basic service 1.7 million people rely on each day to get around Canada’s largest city be so consistently broken? The issue goes beyond the TTC itself, which has been underfunded for decades. The TTC in many ways embodies everything wrong with big city life under capitalism.