The Commission on Warehouse Work grew out of the IWC’s organizing on the issue of placement agencies during the last eight years. Te frst group of placement agency workers who met at the Centre were Dollarama warehouse workers. Te meetings focused on basic labour rights. Te Association des travailleurs et travailleuses d’agences de placements (ATTAP) was formed several years... Read more →
This brief will be presented to the provincial government as part of the consultation process for Bill-59. The French version of the briefing can be found here. The English translation is forthcoming. Mémoire PL 59_CCTP (2021) EN
The city of Montréal has been talking the talk with community groups and activist networks fighting for regularization for years. It's time to walk the walk! For Immediate Release, Friday, February 5th The Immigrant Workers Centre (IWC) and other groups have been in consultation with the Ville de Montréal since 2017, including a recent meeting last week surrounding the impacts of the curfew on undocumented people in the... Read more →
The IWC issues four demands to protect precarious essential workers Montreal, January 26, 2021. Precarious workers demand an immediate end to the harassment, detention, ticketing and arbitrary bullying of essential workers without status by police on the pretext of enforcing the curfew. The Immigrant Workers Centre demand that the following policies be implemented immediately: A don't ask, don't tell policy for workers without status Acceptance of the essential... Read more →
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