It’s Time To End The Exploitative Foreign Worker Program
Ultimately, the only way to truly address the issues at the heart of the program is to do away with its closed work permit system.
Adam D.K. King is an assistant professor in Labour Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Ultimately, the only way to truly address the issues at the heart of the program is to do away with its closed work permit system.
Hopes of using the relatively robust post-pandemic economy as a springboard to build something better seem to largely be fading.
The government has affirmed that profit takes precedence over what limited rights workers have managed to secure.
We need a real commitment to full employment that uses the public sector to guarantee jobs.
A government decision to take this money and use it as it pleases amounts to theft of workers’ deferred wages.
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Like other labour battles in the public sector, the CUPW strike is about more than the interests of postal workers.
What is a Charter-protected right to strike worth if it still allows governments to act this way?