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THE LABOUR MOVEMENT MUST STAND WITH IMMIGRANTS
By Daniel Tseghay
When Yazmin Juarez and her 19-month-old daughter, Mariee, left Guatemala and, eventually, crossed into the United States to seek asylum, they were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Sent to a Texas facility, they found themselves in terrible conditions. While there, and likely because of those conditions, Mariee contracted a respiratory infection. With little medical attention, she got worse, and, a few weeks after they were released, she died.
There are countless stories like this one. And yet, instead of solidarity, we’re seeing a swell of anti-immigrant sentiment, a further clampdown on immigrants, and increased scapegoating. Mariee wasn’t born in the United States but even children of immigrants born in the country are framed as the problem. Read more!
INTERVIEW WITH GINA SMOKE, UNIFOR'S INDIGENOUS LIASON
On the latest episode of Rank and File Radio – Prairies Edition, host Emily Leedham speaks with Gina Smoke, Unifor’s new Indigenous Liaison, who will be travelling across Canada to start projects to support Indigenous communities.
On the second half of the show, Charlene Matheson, president of Unifor Local 830, talks domestic violence leave in Manitoba, the first province to pass legislation of this kind two years ago, and why more education and outreach is needed to let people know that it available. Read more!
CUPW LEGISLATED BACK: THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES
By Chloe Rockarts
Since postal workers were legislated back to work on Tuesday, November 27, picket lines have been organized across the country by unions and labour groups in support of postal workers and the right to strike.
Picketers have stopped mail entering and exiting at Canada Post processing centres, distribution facilities and plants in Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey, Edmonton, Mississauga, Ottawa, Oshawa, Whitehorse, Windsor, London and twice in both Halifax and Hamilton. Read more!
FORD'S ATTACK ON THE POOR
By Zaid Noorsumar
Nicole Richelle smiles in quiet gratitude as she surveys the food available to her at the Parkdale Community Food Bank. Richelle, 22, and her partner, Vincent Francis, 24, have made their way downtown from Etobicoke in search of a food bank with adequate supplies.
The generosity on offer lights up the faces of the shy couple, as the staff member fills up their tote bags with sourdough, canned food, assorted vegetables and diapers for their infant daughter. For the food insecure family, such forms of largesse make the difference between sufficient nourishment and hunger pangs. Read more!
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