Migrant Workers File $10 Million Lawsuit against Denny’s in British Columbia

More than 50 Filipino migrant workers recruited to Canada under the Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program have filed a $10 million class action suit against Denny’s restaurants in British Columbia, charging the company did not live up to the employment contract the workers signed before they arrived from the Philippines. The suit was filed in the B.C. Supreme Court on January 7, on behalf of the Filipinio migrant workers employed at Denny’s from 2006 until the present.

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BC NDP Press Release

Tens of Thousands of Immigrants victims of Harper cuts to settlement services

The decision by the Harper government to slash funding to immigration settlement agencies is “a cynical attack on new immigrants and their communities,” says Wayne Hanley, the national president of UFCW Canada. The ten percent cutback in funding was quietly announced just days before Christmas, with most of the cuts falling in Ontario where at least 10 Toronto-based agencies had their funding cut altogether, and 35 other Ontario agencies had their budgets reduced.

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International Migrants Day

December 18, 2010 — International Migrants Day

The AWA and many of its allies are participating and some instances are hosting different activities and events to commemorate the 10^th International Migrants Day. You can also get the posters commemorating this day below in English, French, Spanish, Tagalog and Mandarin. 

The United Nations' (UN) International Migrants Day is annually held on December 18 to recognize the efforts, contributions and rights of migrants worldwide. To read more about this day from the UN click here.

Here is the list of events commemorating this day across Canada:

1.      Vancouver, British Columbia:

Sunday December 19, 2010

From 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm

At Our Lady of Sorrows

555 Slocan Street, Vancouver, BC.

2.      Toronto, Ontario

Saturday December 18, 2010

From 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm

At George Brown College, St. James Campus in the Centre for Financial Services Education Building

290 Adelaide Street East, 3^rd Floor in Room 303

3.      Quebec, Quebec

Thursday December 16, 2010

From 8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Au Centre justice et foi

25 rue Jarry Ouest

Quebec, QC

Veuillez confirmer votre présence par courriel à l'adresse suivante:
16decembre2010@gmail.com

Equal rights NOW for Ontario agworkers Camaign

The men and women who harvest our food and feed our families need your help because fear, danger and oppression are daily realities in our food production system — and government is guilty of promoting it.

Help Canada’s agriculture workers by sharing this story — online and in person — with your friends, family and coworkers. Send a message you can’t accept a food system tainted with abuse, or a government that is guilty of allowing it to continue.


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MIgrant workers left unpaid at Ontario, Canada farm — Video

More than 130 migrant agriculture workers from Mexico and the Carribean were stranded and shortchanged at an Ontario farm when the farmer left town — and left the workers unpaid. Each season more than 28,000 migrant workers toil in Canada's fields, greenhouses and orchards. They come to Canada under a federal program that offers them little protection against abuse, exploitation or not getting paid.