Canada Must Provide Status for
All
Migrant Workers Alliance for Change Demands Action to Protect Migrant Workers
On January 11 the Migrant Workers Alliance for
Change called on
the Ontario government to respond to the rising
number of COVID-19
cases with urgent action, focusing on the sites
of largest outbreaks:
congregate living and working sites. Their
statement reads as follows:
"Long-term care homes, farms with migrant
workers, manufacturing
sites, warehouses, bakeries, prisons are the
centres of crisis. Many of
the workers, and those housed or imprisoned
there, are low-waged,
racialized and migrant. We deserve immediate
changes.
"We need #PaidSickDays and #NoEvictions. ALL
workers deserve higher
wages, emergency income support, and universal
access to healthcare --
migrants must not be left behind.
"Just as one example: We proposed specific
changes to stop outbreaks
in farms in June of 2020. Over six months later,
nothing has been done
but outbreaks continue TODAY.
"We urge Premier Ford to ensure worker and
migrant justice, instead of ensuring profit for
the few."
This article was published in
Number 6 - February 15, 2021
Article Link:
Canada Must Provide Status for
All: Migrant Workers Alliance for Change Demands Action to Protect Migrant Workers
Website: www.cpcml.ca
Email: editor@cpcml.ca
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