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METROVANINDEPENDENT.COM
November 2015
NEWS
Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights - Canada
calls for end to discrimination vs. migrant workers
Migrant worker groups from across
Canada are launching a historic coalition to
call on Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government
to end the discriminatory practice of tying
migrant workers to specific employers and
transition towards permanent immigration
status upon arrival for migrant workers.
The Coalition for Migrant Workers
Rights - Canada (CMWRC), is a coalition of
organizations representing Canadian born
and migrant worker groups from coast to
coast to coast, aimed at improving working
conditions for all workers.
CMWRC is launching MoVE – a
campaign for Mobility, Voice and Equality
for migrant workers to call on Prime
Minister Trudeau to keep his campaign
promises to undo the harm done by the
Harper government and to move towards
a single-tier immigration system based on
permanency and family reunification to
ensure decent work for all.
“Temporary Foreign Workers are the
only workers in Canada whose jobs are
tied to one specific employer according
to their work permit. They are not free
to circulate in the labor market and their
temporary immigration status makes them
disposable,” says Judith F