Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrants / Immigrant Workers Centre (CTI-IWC)

This event is part of a world-wide response by migrant workers to counter the UN-sponsored Global Forum on Migration and Development to be held in Manila at the end of October 2008.

Organized by the International Migrants Alliance – Canada Sunday, October 26, 2008 3pm – 6pm 6767 Cote-des-Neiges (Cote-des-Neiges Community Centre)

Speakers: Tamil . . . → Read More: Montreal – Migrants and Refugees Speak-out!

Some of the most exploited people in the work force are immigrants and those hoping to gain citizenship here in Canada. Some people don’t know what their rights are and when they do, some don’t know where to turn.That’s where the Immigrant Workers Centre steps in. Debra Arbec from CTV in Montreal looks . . . → Read More: CTV Montreal Headline News: ‘Helping Immigrants’

La Ligue des Droits et Libertés and the Black Coalition of Quebec join the Justice for Anas Coalition to demand that a coroner’s inquest into the death of Anas Bennis, called in June 2008, be allowed to proceed as planned. They also continue to press for a full and independent public inquiry into . . . → Read More: WHAT IS THE MONTREAL POLICE BROTHERHOOD TRYING TO HIDE?

Montreal, October 8, 2008 – More than 60 former workers at a Montreal textile factory, Lamour Inc., are involved in a campaign for just compensation. Although the workers have been laid off in small groups, collectively, they believe these lay-offs should be considered collective and therefore they should be eligible for a substantial . . . → Read More: Portraits of a Movement: Immigrant Workers Continue the Fight Against Unjust Dismissal

Montreal, October 9, 2008 – The Immigrant Workers Centre went to bat again yesterday for the more than 500 Lamour Inc. textile workers who have lost jobs since 2006.

Centre lawyer Alexandra Law and two of the affected employees met with a pair of aides for Employment Minister Sam Hamad at his office in . . . → Read More: Axed Lamour workers are still fighting for help – Montreal Gazette