Commission on Warehouse Work in Montreal

 

 

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 later as a worker-led organization of placement agency workers. ATTAP has continued to campaign for reforms to improve protections for all placement agency workers and takes action against violations of labour standards and health and safety conditions. ATTAP has promoted a series of demands for change, culminating in the recent reform of the Québec labour code that recognized the precarious situation of placement agency workers and introduced some reforms to address these injustices.