{"id":61,"date":"2023-03-09T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T16:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw2113.ca.previewmysite.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2025-04-09T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:12:25","slug":"enough-is-enough-toronto-york-region-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Enough Is Enough: Toronto &#038; York Region Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Accolade Building East 102, York University, Keele Campus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>March 10, 2023 7:00 PM &#8211; 9:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a><strong>Add to Calendar<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4700 Keele StreetToronto, ONM3J 2S5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join the&nbsp;<strong>Enough Is Enough: Toronto &amp; York Region Launch<\/strong>&nbsp;featuring Chris Smalls, founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chris Smalls<\/strong>&nbsp;is leading a new generation of young, racialized workers who are transforming the labour movement in North America. In 2022, Chris led a successful union drive among thousands of Amazon workers at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island, New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris will be the keynote speaker at the Toronto &amp; York Region launch of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wesayenough.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Enough Is Enough<\/a>, a campaign to tackle the cost-of-living crisis in Ontario<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris will be joined by&nbsp;<strong>Adaeze Mbalaja<\/strong>, President of the York Federation of Students;&nbsp;<strong>Andria Babbington<\/strong>, President of the Toronto &amp; York Region Labour Council; and&nbsp;<strong>Ahmad Gaied<\/strong>, Secretary-Treasurer of the Ontario Federation of Labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A question-and-answer period will follow Chris\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about the Enough Is Enough campaign&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wesayenough.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Please note:<\/strong>&nbsp;You must RSVP to reserve your ticket. Only the first 500 people&nbsp;<em>with tickets<\/em>&nbsp;will be admitted. Once you RSVP, you will receive your e-ticket by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Accommodation requests:<\/strong>&nbsp;If you require accessibility accommodations, please email&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:ybdacy@ofl.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ybdacy@ofl.ca<\/a>&nbsp;by Friday, March 3 @ 11:59 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Organized by:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ofl.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ontario Federation of Labour<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.labourcouncil.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Toronto &amp; York Region Labor Council<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yfs.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">York Federation of Students<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice4workers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Justice for Workers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Courtesy of The Ontario Federation of Labour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accolade Building East 102, York University, Keele Campus March 10, 2023 7:00 PM &#8211; 9:00 PM Add to Calendar 4700<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw2113.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}