Solidarity with foreign and migrant workers: Interviews with Syed Hussan and Caitlin Craven R&F.ca has launched its Spring fundraising drive. Our goal is to raise $6,660 by May 1, 2015. Click here to find out how you can donate. By Andrew Stevens Once again, migrant and foreign workers in Canada are being victimized by the federal government’s Continue readingFighting the 4 and 4
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Part 2 of How the WSIB is Failing the Injured Workers of Ontario By Samantha Ponting On Dec. 3, a group of injured workers and their allies gathered in front of the Ontario Ministry of Labour on University Avenue in Toronto to demand action on medical coverage for injured workers. The workers handed out band Continue readingThe WSIB’s Austerity Agenda: Deporting Injured Migrant Workers
El Contrato is a 50 minute film documenting the journey of a worker from central Mexican to the greenhouses of Leamington in southwestern Ontario. It is about the struggle of agricultural foreign workers for dignity, respect and rights. After its release, employers in Leamington threatened legal action against the film’s creator Min Sook Lee and Continue readingWeekend Video: El Contrato
Coming out of a productive four days of workshops and cross-union collaboration at the Peoples’ Social Forum, RankandFile.ca has developed some reflections on some of the major labour struggles panning out across the country. From the attack on BC teachers to abuse in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, the public is facing its fair share Continue readingFour major battles for the Canadian labour movement
The constellation of Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs and the role of advocacy organizations like the Immigrant Workers Centre – An interview with Enrique “Kike” Illanes A RankandFile.ca series on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program By Andrew Stevens Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program, and its oldest iteration, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), is once Continue readingForeign workers and labour organizing in Quebec
An interview with Pablo Godoy By Samantha Ponting At this June’s Canadian Federation of Students’ (CFS) Semi-Annual General Meeting, a motion was served from a Toronto local calling for the CFS to take a position in opposition to the Temporary Foreign Workers’ Program (TFWP), noting that “the Temporary Foreign Workers Program has grown infamous for Continue readingBroadening the Debate on Precarious Work
In this week’s Labour News Update: Minimum wages in Canada Collective agreements Temporary foreign workers Canada Post Outsourcing at Sears Pension funds Silencing public sector workers Buffett keeps word, Heinz strikes “fair” deal with Ontario ketchup workers Jamie Sturgeon, Global News, January 16, 2014 New contract for UFCW Local 500 members at Laminage Continue readingLabour News Update: January 20, 2014
By Doug Nesbitt, November 30, 2013 Reprinted from The Bullet The closure of the Leamington, Ontario Heinz factory by mid-2014 will result in 740 job losses in the industrial and agricultural region of southwestern Ontario between London and Windsor, Ontario. Over thirty tomato farms are losing contracts with Heinz which will also put 350 migrant worker Continue readingHeinz Leamington: Ripe for a Cooperative