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Please join the Kingston and District Labour Council for the Annual Labour day Parade and Picnic.  The event begins at McBurney Park (Ordance and Clergy Streets) and is open to the public.  Please join us in the park and enjoy music, food and fun for the kids.  

Dear affiliates and allies, This Thursday December 5th at 6pm, is our local screening Town of Widows, an hour-long documentary about asbestos-related cancers caused by the Peterborough General Electric Plant and the community's fight for justice from the WSIB system. I'm so thrilled to announce that the 1-hour screening will be followed at 7pm by a panel/Q&A featuring: Jim Dufresne, a former GE worker and member of the Advisory Committee on Retrospective Exposures who is part of the ongoing struggle to…

Did you know that menstrual hygiene products are among the most requested items at local food banks and shelters, but the least donated? This year, for the first time, a Tampon Tuesday event and collection drive will be held in the region, following International Women’s Week. United Way of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington, in partnership with Bell Media, local Labour partners, and Queen’s University, is looking for community members to donate pads, liners, tampons, etc. – all are welcome…

Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.