May Day 2024 Schedule
April 25, 2024
Auditorium | Boardroom 1 | Boardroom 3 | |||||
5:30 PM | Event opens. Booths and bar begin operating. Food is available. | 6:00 PM – 7:20 PM | Workshop: Fighting for Affordable Housing presented by the Affordable BC Campaign (BCGEU) | 6:00 PM – 7:20 PM | Workshop: Internationalism 101: Palestine is a Labour Issue presented by Labour for Palestine | ||
5:30 PM | Sariah Jacobs – Indigenous acknowledgement and sharing | ||||||
5:40 PM | Re: Sisters, Left Coast Labour Chorus | 8:10 PM – 9:30 PM | Workshop: How Workers Can Drive Change at City Hall presented by Women Transforming Cities | 8:10 PM – 9:30 PM | Workshop: Climate Change & Heat Protections for Workers presented by Worker Solidarity Network | ||
5:55 PM | Opening remarks by Stephen von Sychowski (VDLC) | ||||||
6:00 PM | Live music | ||||||
6:30 PM | Peter Marcus poetry | ||||||
6:40 PM | Speech: Andy Healy, CUPE 5536 | ||||||
6:45 PM | Speech: Garth Mullins, VANDU | ||||||
6:50 PM | Recorded music, mingling | ||||||
7:30 PM | Book launch: ’12 Rules for Strife’ with labour & political cartoonist Sam Wallman | ||||||
7:50 PM | Live music | ||||||
8:20 PM | Speech: Julie Diesta, Migrant Spring | ||||||
8:25 PM | Eddy Pedreira, IATSE 938 | ||||||
8:30 PM | Recorded music, mingling | ||||||
9:15 PM | Booths begin wrap up | ||||||
9:30 PM | Event concludes |