Hi All
Please see below and whoever can make tomorrow will be great. Regarding April 1st
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Hello All,
For folks who can make it tomorrow. there is a press conference regarding the April 1st deadline please try to attend and give your support. Details are below. Circulate and forward this to your friends. Thank you.
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MEDIA ADVISORY
What: Press Conference
When: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 1PM
Where: 9653 102 Ave. Edmonton. AB T5H 0E5 (Panciteria Restaurant)
On Wednesday, April 1, is the first wave of migrant workers to be affected by the new rule requiring low-skilled workers to leave after four years in Canada. People in service, retail, caregiving, manufacturing, agriculture and similar jobs are not able to immigrate to Canada permanently.
For workers under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program who came on or before April 1st 2011, this is the end for them. The four-year cap on migrant workers is to strengthen the temporary nature of the program, but in fact the jobs that the workers are doing are permanent jobs. Aside from thousands being sent home, advocates were afraid that more will be undocumented, work in the underground economy and be more vulnerable than they are now.
“These workers are not rags that can be used and disposed of when not needed anymore,” says Clarizze Truscott the spokesperson of the Temporary Foreign Worker Support Coalition. “These workers are people that contributes to our economy and social life in Alberta, as Canadians its our responsibility to care for them” she added.
One of the many casualties of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is Maria Victoria Venancio, the quadriplegic temporary foreign worker that was hit by a vehicle going to work. Now she lost her status and waiting for her removal order.
“All workers must be treated fairly regardless of their status,” Said Dhon Mojica of Migrante Alberta and a temporary foreign worker. “We all help this economy and country,” he added.
Many migrant advocates in different cities are mobilizing on the 31st and the 1st of April to demand for full immigration status for migrant workers especially those who are already here in Canada. It will continue even after April 1st.
Speakers:
Clarizze Truscott, Temporary Foreign Worker Support Coalition
Maria Victoria Venancio, temporary foreign worker
David Eggen, Alberta’s New Democratic Party
Wally Ewanicke, UNIFOR
Please see below and whoever can make tomorrow will be great. Regarding April 1st
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Hello All,
For folks who can make it tomorrow. there is a press conference regarding the April 1st deadline please try to attend and give your support. Details are below. Circulate and forward this to your friends. Thank you.
---------
MEDIA ADVISORY
What: Press Conference
When: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 1PM
Where: 9653 102 Ave. Edmonton. AB T5H 0E5 (Panciteria Restaurant)
On Wednesday, April 1, is the first wave of migrant workers to be affected by the new rule requiring low-skilled workers to leave after four years in Canada. People in service, retail, caregiving, manufacturing, agriculture and similar jobs are not able to immigrate to Canada permanently.
For workers under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program who came on or before April 1st 2011, this is the end for them. The four-year cap on migrant workers is to strengthen the temporary nature of the program, but in fact the jobs that the workers are doing are permanent jobs. Aside from thousands being sent home, advocates were afraid that more will be undocumented, work in the underground economy and be more vulnerable than they are now.
“These workers are not rags that can be used and disposed of when not needed anymore,” says Clarizze Truscott the spokesperson of the Temporary Foreign Worker Support Coalition. “These workers are people that contributes to our economy and social life in Alberta, as Canadians its our responsibility to care for them” she added.
One of the many casualties of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is Maria Victoria Venancio, the quadriplegic temporary foreign worker that was hit by a vehicle going to work. Now she lost her status and waiting for her removal order.
“All workers must be treated fairly regardless of their status,” Said Dhon Mojica of Migrante Alberta and a temporary foreign worker. “We all help this economy and country,” he added.
Many migrant advocates in different cities are mobilizing on the 31st and the 1st of April to demand for full immigration status for migrant workers especially those who are already here in Canada. It will continue even after April 1st.
Speakers:
Clarizze Truscott, Temporary Foreign Worker Support Coalition
Maria Victoria Venancio, temporary foreign worker
David Eggen, Alberta’s New Democratic Party
Wally Ewanicke, UNIFOR