(Pictured above: The original location of the Windsor Workers’ Action Centre located at 328 Pelissier St. )

The Windsor Workers' Action Centre is a community organization of workers, retired workers, students and activists committed to improving the lives and working conditions of people in non union low-wage and unstable employment. Our goal is to ensure that all workers understand and are able to exercise their rights to be treated with dignity and fairness. We seek to bring workers together by providing a physical and cultural space in which they can discuss their situations, debate solutions, and experience cultural programming including films, readings, and visual art. Our goal is to create a context in which workers can create and discover their common interests .

origins

In February 2007, a group of faculty and students from the University of Windsor’s Labour Studies Program began meeting regularly with a wide range of labour and social justice activists under the banner Work in Progress (WIP). The group recognized the strengths and diversity in Windsor’s extensive activist community, including an active peace coalition, long-established environmentalist organizations, alternative media that included a monthly newspaper and a weekly radio show on working class issues, an annual Labour Arts Festival and a vibrant community of local artists, and an historically strong and community-minded labour movement.

This group eventually opened the Windsor Workers’ Action Centre at its original location at 328 Pelissier, the location it stayed at for years before eventually moving to Ottawa St. Eventually due to losses in funding they were unfortunately forced to close their doors.

Rebirth of the WWAC

In the summer of 2023 a group of workers and activists began meeting once again with the goal of reviving the Windsor Workers’ Action Centre. We have reconstituted the board, reopened the bank account, and have begun actively organizing, recruiting, and fundraising with the goal of reopening a space in 2024.