Practicing mental wellness is considering that someone may be experiencing difficulties in their life that you know nothing about. During Mental Health Week, ATU Local 113 encourages its members to always show compassion and kindness towards each other.
Mental Health Week: Day 2
Understanding someone’s feelings is one way we can show empathy. For day two of Mental Health Week, we encourage all our members to show empathy towards fellow sisters and brothers, riders and others around you.
Mental Health Week 2022
Eid al-Fitr Greetings
ATU Local 113 extends its greetings to all Muslim members that celebrate Eid al-Fitr. We wish you and your family a day full of joy, happiness and many blessings.
May Day Rally
There are only two days left before our May Day rally! Join us as we march to Queen’s Park and fight for a better Ontario for transit workers.
The Ford Government Budget Once Again Leaves Transit Riders Behind
The Ford Government’s budget proposes spending billions of future dollars on highway and transit expansion. Investments in future transit lines will do nothing to provide the service we need today.
Instead of supporting reliable service for riders it gives away billions to car drivers by eliminating plate renewal fees and removing tolls on highways. This works against our environmental goals.
Highway expansion will only increase congestion and travel times. Together with a lack of operational support, this budget will make it harder for people to get to work, and handicap cities and transit systems trying to recover from the pandemic.
Day of Mourning 2022
Day of Mourning 2022
April 28, 2022, marks the third Workers’ Day of Mourning since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 1984, the Canadian Labour Congress established April 28th as the National Day of Mourning in Canada to remember and honour those who have died, been injured or suffered illness in the workplace.
The annual observance of this day will help strengthen the resolve to establish safe and healthy conditions in the workplace, and prevent further injuries, illnesses, and deaths.
As much as this is a day to remember the dead, it is also a call to protect the living and make work a place where people can thrive.
We must never forget those who came before us. Those who fought and demonstrated for our rights. They changed laws and established legislation to guarantee our rights to a safe workplace.
Workplace Safety Rights Are Human Rights, together we can make a difference.
United in safety we work together. United Together, we have the power to make change.
Earth Day Cleanup
It was great to join Faisal Hassan and other community members as we cleaned up the Mount Dennis area over the weekend in honor of Earth Day.
Earth Day
This past weekend, members of ATU Local 113 participated in a neighbourhood cleanup in honour of Earth Day. ATU Local 113 would like to thank everyone for their efforts in making our community a cleaner and greener place for all.
Toronto Star: TTC attacks spark calls for increased transit security patrols
Following several assaults on passengers this week, ATU Local 113 is calling on the TTC to better protect workers and riders by increasing the presence of special constables and reinstating the subway guard position on all trains.
Toronto Star: TTC attacks spark calls for increased transit security