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Changes to EI and migrant worker wage cut part of a “cheap labour agenda”

June 27, 2012

WAC joined the Good Jobs for All Coalition at an info picket to expose the “cheap labour agenda”, which include the recent changes to Employment Insurance and to the migrant worker program.   The EI changes will force unemployed workers to take lower-paying work or risk losing their EI benefits.  Meanwhile, employers are now permitted to pay migrant workers up to 15% less than the prevailing wage.  Over 40 union and community activists came out for a lively picket outside the Service Canada and Citizenship and Immigration offices at 25 St. Clair Avenue East in Toronto today.  Good Jobs for All has launched a petition campaign to rescind these changes. Get your copy today to distribute in your neighbourhood ….. [download id=”140″].

Click here to visit rabble.ca and listen to interviews with Deena Ladd (Coordinator, Workers’ Action Centre), Preethy Sivakumar (Coordinator, Good Jobs for All), Justine Lilley (Coordinator, Honeywell/CAW Action Centre), and Chris Ramsaroop (Organizer, Justicia for Migrant Workers) describing the changes and their impact for all working people.

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