"Canada's labour movement needs to have a frank and detailed discussion about what it will take to build power in the 21st century."
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Indeed it does. That is the challenge laid down to the delegates of the 2008 Canadian Labour Congress convention (May 26 to 30) by the Toronto and York Region Labour Council. Under the leadership of John Cartwright, one of the movement's most articulate and strategic leaders, the Council is proposing an eleven-point program emphasizing organizing, stronger labour councils, green jobs, fighting privatization and campaigning for increased minimum wages.
The Labour Council's program, entitled "An Action Agenda to ...