Oct 06

Rassemblement Pour Venir En Aide Au Travailleurs De L’usine de Textile L’Amour mercredi, le 8 octobre, 2008.What Textile Workers’ Want; Demonstration on Wednesday, October 8, 2008.

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mercredi, le 8 octobre, 2008

12:00 pm à 1:00 pm
Ministre de L’emploi et de La Solidarité Sociale
800 rue Square Victoria

(Métro Square-Victoria)

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Le lundi 8 octobre un groupe de travailleurs et travaileuses du textile va demonstrer leur solidarité
devant la bureau de Ministre de L’emploi et de La Solidarité Sociale à 800 rue Square Victoria (Métro Square-Victoria)

Les travailleurs de l’usine l’Amour n’ont pas reçu aucune compensation de leur employeur. Pourtant, plus de 500 d’entre eux se sont fait congédié de l’usine au courant de période de l’année 2005 à 2008.

Pendant plus de dix ans, la majorité de ces employées ont travaillés pour l’usine l’Amour. Au lieu de leur récompenser pour leur dévouement et travail acharnée envers la compagnie, l’employeur a choisit de dévier la loi qui s’applique aux employés leur du congédiement. Cette violation a fait en sorte que les travailleurs congédiés de cette entreprise ne puisse pas être éligible pour de compensation considerable. De plus la création du syndicat « Jaune » a empiré les choses puisqu’il n’a pas vraiment intervenue dans l’intérêt des travailleurs.

Pendant que les employés souffrent du congédiement, la compagnie continue à s’agrandir et à faire des profits à travers le monde. Entre-autre, présentement, la compagnie procède plus de 2500 employées dans le monde. En plus, les dirigeants de l’entreprise ont aussi acheté Terramar Sports, en 2007, une compagnie de textile situe dans l’État de New York.

En tenant comptes du fait que la compagnie est entrain à s’agrandir avec succès à travers le monde, pourquoi les travailleurs de l’usine L’Amour n’ont pas étaient récompense lors de leur perte d’emploi?

Joignez-vous à la cause des travailleurs de l’Amour, leurs familles et du Centre de Travailleurs et Travailleuses Immigrants dans le but d’obtenir justice, dignité et respect pour les travailleurs.

  1. Que les travailleurs pour l’Amour soient récompensés de façon juste pour chaque cinq ans de service
  1. Que le Ministre de l’emploi rend public les informations sur les conditions de travail pour les employées de l’usine l’Amour
  1. Que le ministre s’assure que l’Amour soit tenu responsable selon la loi de renvoi-collectives pour que les employées puissent être éligibles pour le programme compensatoire pour les employés renvoyés en textile
  1. Puisque l’union Jaune n’a pas su représenter les intérêts des travailleurs, nous demandons aussi que tous leurs frais reliés a cet union durant les trois derniers années leur soit rendus.

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Ministre de L’emploi et de La Solidarité Sociale
800 rue Square Victoria

(Métro Square-Victoria)

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The Immigrant Workers’ Centre will be having a demonstration on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 from 12:00 pm until       1:00 pm in front of the Office of the Ministre de L’emploi et de La Solidarité Sociale 800, rue de Square-Victoria, (Métro Square-Victoria)

In recent months, many workers have come to the IWC and talked about the lay-offs in the textile and apparel industry in Montreal. We have met workers from Peerless, Gildan, Main Knitting and on a large-scale from Lamour Industry.

More than 60 workers from Lamour are involved in a campaign for just compensation. Although the workers have been laid off in small groups, collectively, they believe these lay-offs should be considered collective and therefore they should be eligible for a substantial termination package. Many of them have been working for this company for more than 10 years, with some having more than 20 years of service. During this time, L’Amour Inc has become a very profitable company for its owners. L’Amour boasts that it is a leading company in the apparel industry and has operations in places like China, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India with over 2500 workers worldwide. A long-time partner of the retail giant Walmart, it recently broke into the US market in July, 2007, by taking over Terramar Sports, a company based in Tarrytown, New York, USA.

All of this was made worse by a union being set up in 2004 that many workers believe to be a “pro-management” union. This prevented workers from organizing into a genuine and militant workers’ union that would have fought for their rights, jobs and dignity. The workers’ demands are simple: to be compensated fairly for the years of loyalty they’ve shown this company. Most of all, they want their dignity and call for justice for the dismissed L’Amour workers!

*Montreal has 75% of the jobs in manufacturing in Quebec

62.3% of Quebec’s garment manufacturing establishments are in Montreal

What do workers want?

  1. The Minister of Employment and Social Solidarity intervene in the L’Amour case and workers be compensated for the years that they worked. The compensation should be 1 year of pay for every five years worked. For those less than 5 years they would have an additional 4 weeks of salary added to their 8 weeks that they already received.
  1. Recognizing that the current laws and policies regulating lay-offs are inadequate and L’Amour was able to by-pass them, the Minister launch a public inquiry into the situation at L’Amour.
  1. Because the union did not represent the workers, it must return all of the dues received over the past three years to the workers.
  1. The Minister force L’Amour to register with the government the mass lay off, so that the laid off workers can avail of a program with the Quebec Employment and Social Solidarity for the textile industry that would provide some benefits to the workers after their employment insurance runs out.

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