Dec 01

IWC-CTI Annual Report 2023-2024

The following report covers CTTI’s activities from May 1, 2023 to April 30, 2024. It presents the main activities and highlights of the past year. Two major campaigns dominated the center’s agenda. The first is the ongoing campaign to regularize the status of people with no status or with a precarious or temporary status. These situations have affected a large number of our members. This campaign has led to the mobilization of hundreds of workers and increased worker participation at the center. In addition, the Montreal Leaders’ Council was founded to spearhead this campaign, and has enabled the emergence of a core group of leaders. The second campaign arose from the situation of workers recruited and employed by the employment agency Trésor and placed with Newrest. Some 200 workers from Latin America and North Africa were brought here on tourist visas and promised work permits, which were not kept. A class action lawsuit followed (details below). The campaign was led by the workers themselves, and most of those involved took part with a group of leaders. These two campaigns demonstrate CTTI’s ability to organize and support large numbers of workers, and to develop groups of leaders.

Download the report from here in French only: CTTI Rapport Annuel 2023-2024

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