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Andria Babbington at Labour Day 2021.


 Andria has been on the Labour Council executive         Q: Please give me a brief overview of the Council’s

 board since 2004, serving for eight years as Vice       history.

 President. She is the first woman of colour to sit as   Our Labour Council has always been about working
 President. Andria is committed to fighting for a just   people organizing collectively around a vision of

 economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic            economic and social justice. Our story began on the
 and beyond; equality and justice for all workers;       land of Indigenous communities, and it has been

 growing the labour movement by increasing union         forged with those who have come from around the

 density; and fighting for climate justice to ensure a   world as immigrants or refugees to build Canada’s
 future for our children.                                largest urban centre.







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