In her keynote address, No One Left Behind: Building a Workers’ First Emergency Response to the Tariff Crisis that Unites Us, Deena Ladd, executive director of the Workers’ Action Centre spoke about the current trade war, the dangers facing workers and a solidarity-driven plan where working people are the priority.
About today’s guest:
Deena Ladd has been working to improve wages and working conditions in sectors of work that are dominated with low-wages, violations of rights, precarious and temp work for over 30 years. She has worked to support and develop grassroots training, education and organizing to build the power of workers with groups such as the Fight for $15 and Fairness Campaign, Decent Work and Health Network, the Migrant Rights Network and Justice for Workers. Ladd is one of the founders and executive director of the Toronto Workers’ Action Centre. The Workers’ Action Centre organizes to improve wages and working conditions with low-waged workers, women, racialized and immigrant workers in precarious jobs that face discrimination, violations of rights and no benefits in the workplace.
ASL Interpreters: Emma Dehez and Mike Glover
Clip: Migrant Workers Alliance for Change
Questions read by: Resh Budhu, Ben McCarthy
Audio-only version and transcript can be accessed at georgebrown.ca/TommyDouglasInstitute.
Image: Deena Ladd / Used with permission.
Produced by: Resh Budhu, Tommy Douglas Institute and Breanne Doyle, rabble.ca.
