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CLC requests urgent meeting with Minister over changes to EI and Temporary Foreign Workers Program

Posted: Monday, 7 May 2012

The Honourable Diane FinleyMinister of Human Resources andSkills Development Canada Dear Minister Finley: I am writing to request an urgent meeting with you regarding your recent announcements outlining major changes to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker P… Read More

CLC Analysis of the 2012 Federal Budget

Posted: Thursday, 29 March 2012

Introduction Budgets are all about choices. With unemployment and underemployment still at very high levels and a shrinking middle-class, the federal government could and should have laid the basis for a sustained and broadly shared economic recovery… Read More

CLC voices its opposition to Bill C-31: the government's attack on refugees.

Posted: Wednesday, 28 March 2012

March 27, 2012 The Honourable Jason Kenney, P.C., M.P. Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6 Dear Minister Kenney, The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is gravely concerned wi… Read More

Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP): Model Program ― or Mistake?

Posted: Sunday, 18 December 2011

The Canadian government likes to promote its Temporary Foreign Worker Program as the model for other nations to copy. The CLC has very different advice based on the labour movements experiences, and the real experiences of migrant workers. Click here to d… Read More

CLC Opposes Bill C-49

Posted: Friday, 21 January 2011

Canada is a nation of immigrants and refugees. Our country, our values, have been built on the principle of respecting human rights and dignity of all. Yet, the Conservative government is pushing forward a bill to once again amend the Immigration and Refug… Read More

CLC Response to Amendments to our Refugee Determination System

Posted: Tuesday, 17 August 2010

The government has amended the refugee determination system. The CLC has concerns with aspects of these amendments. The CLC regards that the government's safe country of origin amendments to Bill C-11, the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, as being f… Read More

Temporary Foreign Workers and ILO Convention 105 on Forced Labour

Posted: Tuesday, 10 August 2010

Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program has many of the tell tale signs of forced labour. Migrant workers too often find themselves in positions of indentured servitude by unscrupulous employers or oppressed and exploited by labour brokers. The CLC has… Read More

Lubicon Community Deserves Justice

Posted: Thursday, 25 March 2010

“Twenty years is too long to wait for justice” said Hassan Yussuff, Secretary-Treasurer of the Canadian Labour Congress. Twenty years ago, on 26 March 1990, the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) ruled that Canada had violated the huma… Read More

Canadian Labour Congress response to IRPA Regulatory Changes Regarding Temporary Foreign Workers

Posted: Sunday, 10 January 2010

The CLC has a long standing and critical interest in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program. Although, we were pleased to learn of regulatory changes being put forward, we are disappointed with their limited scope and imbalance between employe… Read More

Migrant workers who built the Canada Line make history!

Posted: Friday, 1 January 2010

The Canada Line extension to Vancouver’s Skytrain Metro Rapid Transit is the crown jewel of 2010 Winter Olympic construction projects. International construction giant SNC Lavalin was the lead contractor for the $2 billion project. SNC formed a joint par… Read More

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