May 06

Mayworks Festival: Celebrating Worker Victories and Cultural Solidarity

Our annual Mayworks Festival celebrates our yearly victories for our various campaigns lead by our workers councils and committees across Quebec. This year we shared the cultural stage with the International Migrants Alliance and the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines.
We started the evening with presentations from our various workers’ committees,  such as the women’s committee, the Tresor and Newrest former workers committee, the warehouse workers committee, and the South Asian workers committee.

Various cultural presentations were performed by different cultural groups to a crowd of over 250 people.  The event was a great success.

The video is the performance of Migrante Quebec, one of our partner community organizations, who helped us celebrate the evening.

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