Mayworks Toronto

Mayworks Toronto brings struggle to centre-stage and confronts the dramatic changes that are already part of our working lives throughout the world. In May 2000 we perform to a city where youth unemployment is above 25 per cent ... and where young and old alike are being forced into part-time, casual and temporary work characterized by low wages, job insecurity, zero benefits and serious health and safety risks.

Mayworks Saskatoon

May Works Saskatoon will be a celebration of people's struggles and the building of communities on the Prairies!

MayDay: The REAL Labour Day

May 1st, International Workers' Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world, and is recognized in every country except the United States and Canada. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day.

MayDay on the Web

Launched in 1998, this was the first page dedicated to May Day on the web. The web site has an online art show, history of May Day, message board and links to events in Edmonton, across Canada, and around the world.

Bus Riders Union

The Bus Riders Union/Sindicato de Pasajeros, with 3,000 dues paying members and 40,000 self-identified supporters on the buses, is one of the largest mass transit grassroots organizations in the U.S.

On May 25, Mayworks will show the film "Bus Riders Union" for the first time in Western Canada!

Details here.

Labour/Community Strategy Center

The organizing force behind the Bus Riders Union (see link above), the Labor/Community Strategy is a multiracial anticorporate "think tank/act tank" and National School for Strategic Organizing, committed to building democratic internationalist social movements.

The Strategy Center's work encompasses all aspects of urban life:

It emphasizes rebuilding the labor movement, fighting for environmental justice, true mass transit for the masses, and immigrant rights, as well as actively opposing the growing criminalization, racialization, and feminization of poverty.

Working TV

Working TV is primarily a labour show, focusing on union issues. The original intention of Working TV was to to counter the marginalization and censorship of labour by mainstream television broadcasters, with labour positive programming produced by working people, for working people.

As the years have gone by, Working TV has been producing more and more programming on broader community, political and social justice issues.

Tao Vancouver Events Calendar

Find out about other MayDay related events!