March 2023

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  • General Meeting via Zoom
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  • International Women’s Day
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  • Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
  • Daylight Saving Time starts
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  • Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
  • Commonwealth Day
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  • Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
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  • Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
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  • Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
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  • Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
  • St. Patrick's Day
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  • Canadian Agricultural Safety Week
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  • International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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March 20, 2023
March 21, 2023
  • International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

    March 21, 2023

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March 22, 2023
April 4, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    April 4, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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April 7, 2023
April 9, 2023
April 10, 2023
April 12, 2023
April 15, 2023
  • Anniversary of Toronto Typographical Union Strike

    April 15, 2023

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April 18, 2023
  • Trade Union Act Created

    April 18, 2023

    Prime Minister John A. Macdonald introduced the Trade Union Act on April 18, 1872, legalizing and protecting unions.

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April 22, 2023
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May 29, 2023
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May 31, 2023
June 6, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    June 6, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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June 18, 2023
June 21, 2023
July 1, 2023
July 4, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    July 4, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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August 1, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    August 1, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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August 7, 2023
September 4, 2023
September 5, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    September 5, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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September 12, 2023
  • Windsor’s Ford Strike

    September 12, 2023

    In 1945, Ford’s Windsor complex employed 14,000 auto workers, making it Canada’s largest workplace. Times were tough. War-time production was slowing down, and many companies, including Ford, wanted to break some of the gains that had been made by unions for workers since the depression. Union dues were still voluntary – meaning United Auto Workers Local 200 had the near impossible task of collecting dues from 14,000 members each month. The union needed more security if it was going to survive and protect the gains it had made for its members.

    Ford announced it was laying off 1,500 workers. Then negotiations broke down over union demands that would have made union membership mandatory, and seen dues automatically deducted from workers’ pay and handed to the union, something Ford had agreed to in another plant. Workers had also demanded a paid two-week annual vacation.

    On September 12, 1945, the union struck. It was a new and inexperienced union, but the workers had cultivated community support, and Ford’s confrontational tactics fostered even more solidarity.

    The union was able to fend off attempts to break the picket lines with the support of 8,000 members from UAW Local 195, employed at other Windsor auto companies, who stayed off work without strike pay for another month. To prevent a violent confrontation with police, the strikers parked their own cars in streets all around the plant, forming a blockade that lasted three days.

    That’s when federal cabinet minister Paul Martin Sr., personally intervened to get bargaining going again, and a tentative settlement, based on the union’s pre-strike offer of binding arbitration on all union security matters, was defeated by the local’s now-militant members. The workers would only go back to work after Martin assured the union he would appoint a “sympathetic” arbitrator. That got the deal passed. On December 9, after 99 days on the picket line, workers voted to return to work.

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September 23, 2023
September 30, 2023
October 3, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    October 3, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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October 9, 2023
October 18, 2023
October 31, 2023
November 5, 2023
November 7, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    November 7, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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November 11, 2023
November 21, 2023
November 25, 2023
November 26, 2023
December 5, 2023
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    December 5, 2023  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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January 1, 2024
January 2, 2024
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    January 2, 2024  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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February 2, 2024
February 6, 2024
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    February 6, 2024  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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February 14, 2024
February 15, 2024
March 5, 2024
  • General Meeting via Zoom

    March 5, 2024  7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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