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

Testimony of a former temp agency worker: Migrant Voices podcast #2

immigrantworkerscentre — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:38:07 +0000

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MEETING FOR TEMP AGENCY WORKERS

immigrantworkerscentre — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:36:03 +0000

Do you work for an agency? Have you had any problems at work?

MEETING FOR TEMP AGENCY WORKERS

February 2nd, 6pm-7:30pm

Immigrant Workers Centre

4755 Van Horne, suite 110

WHY : We’re having this meeting to unite agency workers who are interested in discussing problems at work. We want to create a space for reflection and discussion to promote the rights of workers and to improve working conditions of agency workers, no matter their immigration status.

Come and discuss strategies for improving working conditions! Free food and childcare provided.

For more information, contact the IWC:

(514) 342-2111

cti_iwc@yahoo.com

Iwc-cti.ca

Migrant Voices podcasts: IWC Radio! The first installment

immigrantworkerscentre — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:52:22 +0000

Download here Migrant Voices Podcast #1

The Immigrant Workers’ Centre presents the story of a Filipino machinist who came to Canada through the temporary foreign worker (TFW) program.

His identity is confidential due to the precarity of his status and the threat of retribution by employers.

He agreed to share his story with us, from working as a machinist in a “free trade” (militarized) zone in the Philippines with a “no unions, no strikes” policy, to working as a TFW during the graveyard shift at an aerospace factory just outside of Montreal.

This is the first in a series of migrant workers’ life stories.

STATUS FOR ALL Organizing Assembly

immigrantworkerscentre — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:12:50 +0000

STATUS FOR ALL Organizing Assembly
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2012
1pm-4pm
at 1500 de Maisonneuve Ouest, #204
(métro Guy-Concordia)

- Wheelchair accessible.
- Childcare available on-site (please get in touch a day before to confirm if you’ll need childcare).
- Snacks and drinks.
- The assembly will take place in French, English & Spanish, with whisper translation available for all three languages.
- Please let us know about any other access needs or requests.

INFO: solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com - 514-848-7583 – www.solidaritesansfrontieres.org

Proposed Agenda (1-4pm):
- Welcome/Facilitation
- Background to the Status for All campaign
- Introductions
- Decision-making
- Presentation on proposed events
- Decision on poster
- Committees and Timeline
(proposed committees include: propaganda, media (including videos), neighborhood mobilizing, benefit show, community dinner, logistics, art)
- Small group discussions
- Final plenary
———-This coming May 2012, Solidarity Across Borders, Dignidad Migrante, Mexicans United for Regularization, No One Is Illegal, and the Immigrant Workers Center will together be organizing events and actions on the theme “Status for All”. The culmination of our mobilizing efforts will be a “Status for All” march on the streets of Montreal on May 26, 2012. We are also planning a migrant justice Mayday contingent, a benefit show and a community dinner. Leading up to May, there will be active community outreach efforts in Montreal neighborhoods.

This year’s Status for All mobilization builds on a year of continued actions and mobilizing. Migrants such as Paola Ortiz and Victor Morales have publicly fought against removal orders, and have mobilized campaigns around their cases. Recently a group of non-status migrants, Mexicans United for Regularization (MUR), has formed to self-organize for regularization and against deportations. In Canada’s detention centers, migrants continue to resist, including public hunger strikes in Niagra (Ontario) and British Columbia. This past October, a Solidarity City conference continued the efforts for safe access to services like education, health care, shelters, housing and food banks.

The Status for All Organizing Assembly is coming together in full support of the following demands: i) Status for All, meaning a comprehensive, inclusive and ongoing regularization program for all non-status people; ii) an end to deportations and detentions; iii) an end to the double punishment of migrants with criminal records; iv) support for a Solidarity City which means, in part, full access to services such as health care, education, housing, food, shelters and more. The Status for All Organizing Assembly will support these demands by organizing for a march on May 26, as well as building events such as a MayDay contingent, benefit show, community dinner, as well as outreach efforts in Montreal neighborhoods.

INFO: solidaritesansfrontieres@gmail.com - 514-848-7583 – www.solidaritesansfrontieres.org

- An invitation from Solidarity Across Borders, Dignidad Migrante, Mexicans United for Regularization, No One Is Illegal, & the Immigrant Workers Center
- Solidarity Across Borders & Dignidad Migrante are working groups of QPIRG Concordia.

- VIDEO: Status for All: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za8n_BTy2O0

Español

immigrantworkerscentre — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:19:08 +0000

You are an activist working towards social justice and want to learn Spanish to communicate with other activists or people that you are supporting whose first language is Spanish?
Two Hispanic activists offer you the opportunity to learn it.
Price: 75$ / 2 times a week from January 17 to April 19, 2012

Place: at the Immigrant Workers Center (IWC)
4755 Van Horne Street, Suite 110 (Metro Plamondon)

Schedule: 6PM to 7:30PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays

For more information, call 514-342-2111 or email cti.iwc@yahoo.com

http://www.facebook.com/events/325007920854999/