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Vancouver

Temporary Foreign Worker Programs Forum

Date and time

2014.11.20, 7:00 PM

Details

Featured Speaker:
Lynne Fernandez, on the Manitoba Worker Recruitment & Protection Act
• Lynne is a member of the Manitoba Migrant Workers Solidarity Network
and Errol Black Chair on Labour Issues at the Manitoba Office of the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Forum Panelists:
• Lorina Seraficio, Vancouver Committee for Domestic Workers &
Caregivers Rights (CDWCR).
• Paul Finch, Treasurer, BC Government Employees Union.
• Ai Li Lim, Westcoast Domestic Workers Association (WDWA).
• Irene Lanzinger, Secretary-Treasurer, BC Federation of Labour.
• Gil Aguilar, Migrant Workers Dignity Association.
• Joey Hartman, President, Vancouver & District Labour Council.

The growing reliance of employers on the use of temporary foreign workers for both temporary/seasonal and permanent jobs in a variety of service, agricultural and manufacturing sectors, the abuses of TFW programs by employers, and the abuses of migrant workers at the hands of employers and their lack of basic rights and protections, continues to generate a lively public debate. A diversity of views and prescriptions for change to the TFW programs calls for a discussion to arrive at common ground for a public policy campaign that best represents the interests of Canadian and foreign workers.

Venue

SFU Harbour Centre Room 7000 (7th Floor)

Address

515 West Hastings Street

City

Vancouver

Country

Canada

Economic sectors

Agriculture and horticulture workers, Occupations in services - Domestic work, Natural resources, agriculture and related production occupations - general, Home child care providers, Home support workers, housekeepers and related occupations, and General farm workers

Target groups

(Im)migrants workers, Researchers, Unions, and NGOs/community groups/solidarity networks

Geographical focuses

British Columbia and National relevance

Languages

English