China.org.cn, Jun. 7 2011
More than 200 migrant workers gathered Monday night at a government building in south China’s Guangdong Province, protesting over a wage-related dispute that led to injury, Xinhua reported. The crowd in front of the township government building of Guxiang, Chaozhou City, was dispersed by police at about 10:30 pm.
Laurie Monsebraaten, Toronto Star, May 29 2011
At 21, Lilliane Namukasa left Uganda to make a new life in Canada as a live-in caregiver for two small children. But after working full-time for two years, she was paid just $2,100 by her Brampton employer and then fired without cause, forcing her into a homeless shelter, Namukasa says in a claim filed in Ontario Superior Court. This is despite an employment contract that entitled Namukasa to receive approximately $22,000 a year, before taxes, minus $2,860 for room and board, she says in the claim.
Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star, May 29 2011
Foreign farm workers, nannies and other temporary labourers in Canada are forming a united front to fight for better treatment by employers “What we are seeing now is a shift and expansion of the temporary foreign workers program from agriculture and live-in care to food industry, restaurants, hospitality and tourism,†said Sonia Singh of the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change, the coalition to be launched this week.
Nesrine Malik, Guardian, May 27 2011
Dubai seems to be a place where the worst of western capitalism and Gulf Arab racism meet in a horrible vortex
“We are the wrong people of / the wrong skin on the wrong continent and what / in the hell is everybody being reasonable about… but let this be unmistakable this poem is not consent / I do not consent†– Poet June Jordan
No One Is Illegal Vancouver Coast Salish Territories is an anti-colonial migrant justice collective. We are writing this statement only two weeks into the recent federal election, where Stephen Harper’s Conservatives attained a majority in Parliament. We understand that the whole electoral system is flawed – from the façade of choice in liberal democracies to the illegitimacy of the Canadian state that occupies Indigenous lands. We do not simply advocate for “better†politicians or laws. Nonetheless, the specific context of the Conservative government, who have been in power since 2006, requires us to analyze our strategies and our struggles accordingly.
