diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-workflow.yaml b/.github/workflows/ci-workflow.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27900d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-workflow.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+name: VALA/C CI
+on: [push, pull_request]
+jobs:
+  native:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-18.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+    - name: Install meson
+      run: |
+        sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        sudo pip3 install meson ninja
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: >
+        sudo apt-get -qq install -y
+        clang
+        cmake
+        libconfig-dev
+        libgtest-dev
+        libopus-dev
+        libsodium-dev
+        libvpx-dev
+        pkg-config
+        libgee-0.8-dev
+        libgspell-1-dev
+        libgtk-3-dev
+        libjson-glib-dev
+        libsoup2.4-dev
+        libsqlcipher-dev
+        libcanberra-dev
+        libgstreamer1.0-dev
+        libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev
+        valac
+        wget
+    - name: Build and install ToxCore
+      run: |
+        wget "https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/archive/v0.2.9.tar.gz"
+        tar -xzf v0.2.9.tar.gz
+        cd c-toxcore-0.2.9
+        cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
+        make
+        sudo make install
+        cd ..
+    - name: Build
+      run: meson build && ninja -C build
+    - name: Test
+      run: ninja -C build test
+    - name: Install
+      run: sudo ninja -C build install
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/tox/ToxSessionThread.vala b/src/tox/ToxSessionThread.vala
index 89ecbbb..29f42e9 100644
--- a/src/tox/ToxSessionThread.vala
+++ b/src/tox/ToxSessionThread.vala
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ namespace Venom {
     protected GLib.MainContext worker_context;
     protected GLib.MainLoop worker_loop;
 
-    public ToxBaseThread(string name, Logger logger) {
+    protected ToxBaseThread(string name, Logger logger) {
       this.name = name;
       this.logger = logger;
     }