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 refugees, migrant farm workers, [...]

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 at the work [...]

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 Anas’ death [...]

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 termination package. [...]

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 Old Montreal [...]