What: Press Conference (Zoom link available by request)
When: 10am Friday May 1st, 2020
Who: Coalition against Precarious Work
Jorge Frozzini, Community Organizer Immigrant Workers Centre
Charles, former Dollarama warehouse worker living in Montreal Nord
Andrew and his mother, meat processing plant worker
Eric, Current agricultural worker and Temporary Foreign Worker
Celina San Juan, precarious worker fighting for her status and access to the CERB
Jennifer, a caregiver who has recently reunited with her family just before the pandemic started in Quebec.
Montreal, May 1, 2020. As part of the May First International Labour Day celebrations, and as Quebec prepares to slowly reopen the economy, the Immigrant Workers Centre has brought together workers to express their solidarity and to share their experiences of precarious work.
The group claims that workers providing essential services to all the people of Quebec should stand together in solidarity. “We work as caregivers, cleaners, we process and prepare food, we drive goods, we distribute goods, we are cashiers in stores… Our work should have value now and after this pandemic,” the group said.
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