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Homecare Union Election Battle on Again

Barbara Anderson

Fresno Bee

May 4, 2012

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-mct-homecare-union-election-battle-on-again-20120504,0,1286517.story

Fresno County's 10,000 homecare workers could face a rerun
of a bitterly fought union election to decide their
representation if an effort for a new vote is successful.

But the bid for a re-election won't come without its own
fight.

Members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers want to
overturn a narrow win in 2009 by the Service Employees
International Union-United Healthcare Workers-West.

SEIU-UHW vows to oppose the attempt.

On Thursday, NUHW President Sal Rosselli said a decision by
the California Public Employment Relations Board opens the
door for a new election by homecare workers. "This election
can be thrown out so workers can have a fair election to
decide their own fate," he said at a news conference outside
the Fresno County Hall of Records.

The April 18 board decision overturns an earlier ruling by a
board regional attorney who dismissed a complaint by the
NUHW. The union had alleged election misconduct by SEIU,
including voter intimidation, illegal threats and ballot
manipulation.

"They organized a campaign of fear, intimidation," Rosselli
said Thursday.

Connie Lara, a former homecare worker who attended the news
conference, said SEIU representatives "were very hateful"
during the election three years ago.

The case now goes back to the board's general counsel.

But first, SEIU-UHW plans to ask the board to reconsider its
decision, said spokesman Nathan Selzer.

"This has always been a fishing expedition" on the part of
the NUHW, Selzer said. In three years, it "has not presented
any wrongdoing by SEIU-UHW members or representatives," he
said. "We'll present our case and they'll present theirs,
and we're confident this will be a nonissue."

The 2009 election for Fresno County homecare workers was the
first large-scale contest between the SEIU union and the
NUHW. The unions have been locked in conflict since the NUHW
was launched in January 2009 out of a rift over leadership
of the United Healthcare Workers-West, the Oakland-based
local of the SEIU.

An overturn of the homecare election would be a major blow
to the SEIU, the largest union representing Fresno County
workers. In the past two weeks, SEIU has had 250 workers at
the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District
decertify the union for their labor unit; hundreds of county
corrections officers and social services employees could do
the same.

SEIU also faces a re-election to represent 43,000 Kaiser
Permanente workers statewide, including about 1,500 in
Fresno. Last October, a majority of the workers voted to
remain with the SEIU. The NUHW objected and last July, the
National Labor Relations Board said a new election must be
held.

The reporter can be reached at (559) 441-6310,
banderson at fresnobee.com or @beehealthwriter on Twitter.

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Yolo County seeks to shift pension costs onto workers
By Loretta KalbA decade after agreeing to pick up employees' share of pension contributions to CalPERS, Yolo County is working to reverse that decision. - Read More
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Job Front: More employers offer flex time, study shows
By Darrell SmithEmployers are showing more flexibility with their workers, a new report reveals, with more firms offering time during the day to attend to family and personal matters and flex time. - Read More
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-Chicago Teachers Weigh Strike Option Over Employer DemandsDemoralized after being scapegoated for problems in Chicago Public Schools, Chicago's teachers are gearing up for what could be their first strike since 1987. READ MOREBy David Moberg / In These Times@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Labor chief faces challenges as advocate for federal workers
By ERIK WASSON
The Hill
May 15, 2012
http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/227333-federal-workers-defense

For 13 years, Colleen Kelley has served as one of
Washington's leading advocates for federal workers.

As president of the National Treasury Employees Union
(NTEU), Kelley has had a hand in every major deficit
negotiation of the last year. She has tangled with the
Tea Party and gone up against GOP standard-bearers
Reps. Darrell Issa (Calif.) and Paul Ryan (Wis.). She
represents everyone's favorite: the tax collectors.


Her job has never been tougher.

"This is the worst political climate for federal
workers in decades," Kelley told The Hill in an
interview at her H Street headquarters. "You see these
current attacks, they're nonstop. Literally everyday
there's a new one aimed at federal employees."

Kelley is now tracking two dozen bills in Congress
aimed at reducing worker pay and benefits, the highest
she has seen since joining NTEU in the 1970s as a
worker at the IRS.

House Republicans have proposed five-year pay freezes,
5 percent increases in employee contributions to
retirement plans and the requirement that two workers
leave before one is hired. They have argued that
federal worker pay is too generous and guaranteed
pensions unaffordable, given a $16 trillion national
debt.

Half of Kelley's time is spent traveling the country,
comforting frightened members of her union, most of
whom work outside the Beltway. Fear was especially high
last year when the government almost shut down due to a
budget battle and workers worried they would lose pay.

"It is very hard for them to understand why these
attacks keep coming. They know they work hard; they are
proud of what they do; they are dedicated," she said.

Kelley is passionate when talking about the
contribution that people can make when choosing to work
for the government. She still thinks young people
should go into the bureaucracy to "make a difference."

Kelley's office is filled with Sept. 11 memorials given
to her by members working for the Department of
Homeland Security.

"I think a lot of federal employees do their work under
the radar. The country depends on them to do it without
a lot of fanfare. They just expect them to do it," she
said.

"A lot of this hostile legislation very often comes
from those who don't respect federal employees and what
they do. They just want less federal employees and they
want to turn that work over to contractors at a much
higher price," she said.


To keep the enthusiasm to cut worker benefits in check,
Kelly is trying to make her members more popular. That
can be especially hard when your members are tax
collectors.

"It just goes with the nature of what they do," she
said of the public disdain. "I guess if you are getting
a refund you might have a bit of a different experience
with them.

"Some people just have an initial reaction to IRS
rather than thinking about what they do," she added.
"If they think about some agency that they really like
and really need, like the National Park Service or the
FDA ... if the IRS doesn't collect the revenue and you
depend on those services, they can't do that."

Kelley ticks off a list of close allies in Congress; at
the top of the all-Democrat list are House Minority
Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) and Budget Committee ranking
member Chris Van Hollen (Md.).

"There is no doubt that when we look at the
implications of various budget proposals, we seek her
input," Van Hollen, who served on last year's debt
supercommittee and the earlier Biden deficit talks,
told The Hill.

"Federal civilian employees, whether or not they are
members of NTEU, have no more effective or able
champion than Colleen Kelley," Hoyer said.

To understand what makes Kelley tick, you have to first
understand that she is from Pittsburgh.

"I have been here for 23 years now and when I travel on
airplanes inevitably I get a talker and they ask where
I'm from and I always say Pittsburgh," she said. "I
will never be from D.C."

She goes home about once a month.

"It's 240 miles door to door and I can drive it
blindfolded," she said.

Like most Yinzers, Kelley is a Steelers fanatic. And
her office features a large drawing of Forbes Field,
the former home of the Pirates that used to be a quick
walk from her house.

"I was a big baseball fan when [Roberto] Clemente
played," she said. "Then they tore down Forbes Field
and went to a bigger stadium, and it just kind of lost
something."

Kelley has a large family back in the 'Burgh.

Twenty-nine family members came out to celebrate when
Kelley became NTEU vice president in 1995.

Unionism runs in Kelley's family. Her father, now
deceased, was a Teamster and a truck driver. A photo of
her parents occupies a place of honor to the right of
her desk.

Still, Kelley said, when she joined the IRS as an
accountant she did not intend to become a union leader.
Unaccountable managers convinced her to take action.

"You see injustices and things that are unfair," she
said.

Since winning election in 1999 as president, the last
time she ran unopposed, Kelley said her greatest
achievements involved working with the Bush
administration to stop the outsourcing of IRS
collection activities and getting customs and border
agents to choose NTEU as their union when Homeland
Security was created.

A membership setback came last year when the
Transportation Security Agency decided to go with the
rival American Federation of Government Workers as its
union of choice.

Another tough one was the 2010 imposition of a two-year
pay freeze for federal workers that President Obama
signed off on and an increase in pension contributions
for new hires used to pay for the extension of
unemployment insurance in February.

"I made clear my dissatisfaction and disagreement with
that action," Kelley said of the pay freeze when asked
if Obama had betrayed her members. "We have worked hard
over the last two years in an effort to have the
administration support that the pay freeze needs to end
and they have been very public and very clear that the
pay freeze needs to end."

So far NTEU has not endorsed Obama for reelection, but
it is clear Kelley views GOP candidate Mitt Romney as
worse. Romney's economic plan suggests slashing federal
compensation by up to 40 percent.

"What he and others never talk about is how they are
going to get the work done that the public depends on,"
she said.

Out on the road, Kelley tells members to pressure their
elected officials.

"I tell them everything about the working life of a
federal employee is decided by someone who is elected,"
she said. "The upcoming year will be very important and
the upcoming election will determine whether it will be
another two years or four years until [the climate for
federal workers] changes."

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  Inside this Issue:1. Bill Moyers and RoseAnn DeMoro Talk Wall Street Tax2. Anna Deavere Smith - of Nurse Jackie - to Perform in Chicago on Nation’s Healthcare Crisis3. Chicago Mayor Emanuel Agrees to Let Nurses Rally in Daley Plaza May 18
Bill Moyers interviews NNU Executive Director RoseAnn DeMoro on the International push
for a "Robin Hood Tax" on Wall Street, the power of NNU/CNA, and Chicago G8 Actions on May 18.Bill Moyers and RoseAnn DeMoro Talk Wall Street Tax

In an interview aired nationally on PBS this week  – to be rebroadcast Wednesday, May 16, 10 p.m. (check local schedule) – legendary journalist Bill Moyers interviewed RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director, National Nurses United (NNU), the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the country, on the issues that are bringing thousands of nurses and supporters to Chicago for a May 18 Day of Action and Rally at Daley Plaza. The interview focuses on the union’s call for a Robin Hood Tax, a sales tax on Wall Street speculation, that could raise up to $350 billion a year in revenue and is at the center of the May 18 rally. —NNU Press Release, 05/15/12 More »Anna Deavere Smith - of Nurse Jackie - to Perform in Chicago on Nation’s Healthcare CrisisThe critically acclaimed actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, who portrays a nurse on the Emmy award winning Showtime dark comedy Nurse Jackie, will perform Tell Us Where It Hurts, America’s Nurses are Listening, a theatrical piece written for an estimated international audience of more than 1,000 nurses. This unique performance is derived from real-life stories of nurses and their patients gathered by the members of National Nurses United (NNU). —NNU Press Release, 05/15/12 More »Chicago Mayor Emanuel Agrees to Let Nurses Rally in Daley PlazaNurses Praise Tom Morello, Public Support for May 18 Rally. National Nurses United welcomed a decision by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and city officials to reverse efforts to block a planned rally by nurses, and community supporters, joined by eminent musician Tom Morello, at Daley Plaza, May 18. Please watch and share this promotional video. More »Look for us in Chicago!UNSUBSCRIBE | www.NationalNursesUnited.org | www.MainStreetContract.org
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http://bolivia.elmilitante.org/bolivia-topmenu-27/470-al-ampliado-nacional-de-la-fstmb.html Al ampliado nacional de la FSTMBEscrito por El Militante   Martes 15 de Mayo de 2012 12:11CompartirA continuación el texto de un volante de análisis y propuestas sobre la coyuntura, difundido entre los delegados al ampliado nacional de la Federación Sindical de Trabajadores Mineros de Bolivia (FSTMB), que se celebra hoy en la ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Sierra.Desde la Corriente Marxista Internacional saludamos el ampliado de la FSTMB. Ahora más que nunca, frente a la difícil coyuntura que atraviesa el país, es necesario extraer las tendencias fundamentales que la caracterizan y traducirlas en un plan de acción. Confiamos con que el ampliado del sector decisivo del proletariado boliviano sepa cumplir con esta tarea.La crisis mundial del capitalismo no está afectando la principal fuente de ingresos del Estado, los hidrocarburos, que depende fundamentalmente del desenvolvimiento de las economías de Brasil y Argentina y mantiene a flote la economía nacional justificando las políticas gubernamentales. Sin embargo las bruscas oscilaciones de precios y la contracción de mercados generan situaciones de crisis en otros sectores productivos, que desincentivan las inversiones y se convierten en nueva presión ejercida sobre el movimiento obrero mientras provocan una siempre más profunda diferenciación en líneas de clase en el campesinado.El gobierno sigue implementando medidas que podemos enmarcar en un capitalismo de Estado, justificado como etapa “transitoria” al socialismo. La parcial nacionalización de recursos y empresas de servicio, asimismo la creación de empresas productivas de Estado, ha permitido una redistribución de la riqueza hacia los estratos más pobre de la población. Sin embargo los medios de producción siguen en manos de una especuladora burguesía nacional y de multinacionales, que acaparran la cuota mayor de la riqueza nacional en la forma de lucro, indemnizaciones, intereses a la deuda pública interna, inflación, incentivos y subvenciones a la producción, contrabando etc.En la medida en que el Estado se hace cargo solo de sectores marginales de la producción e interviene en los sectores estratégicos solo para incentivar la iniciativa privada, la carga principal de los planes de desarrollo es sobrellevada por la clase obrera, los beneficios mayores son acaparrados por empresarios nacionales y multinacionales, mientras se acentúan las tendencias populistas en el gobierno y la independencia de la burocracia estatal frente a los movimientos y organizaciones sociales en general, a la clase obrera y el campesinado pobre en particular.Este es el fondo de clase de los conflictos que atraviesan el país. Que la derecha intenta capitalizar aprovechando: a) las escisiones en el movimiento de masa y la defensa de intereses corporativos que el mismo gobierno fomenta con políticas desacertadas, como en el caso del TIPNIS y de salud; b) la ausencia de una alternativa con carácter de masa para la reconducción socialista del proceso.Las manifestaciones de apoyo al gobierno (Cochabamba, Tarija) han venido principalmente de sectores de la burocracia pública y cocaleros, que comparten con multinacionales y terratenientes los mismos intereses a un mayor control de los sindicatos y a la ampliación de la frontera agrícola, en desmedro de la productividad agrícola y del campesinado pobre. Esto inevitablemente prepara nuevos y más agudos conflictos, aunque por el momento oculta tras el apoyo al gobierno las contradicciones en el campesinado, sin dejar de debilitar al proceso.Subjetivamente, hace falta el mismo papel activo de la clase trabajadora que fue fundamental en las jornadas de Octubre de 2003 para plasmar una Agenda en que se reconociesen los diferentes sectores sociales, bajo la consigna de la nacionalización y la industrialización de nuestros recursos. Y que sirva realmente a evitar infiltraciones de la derecha y a definir los contornos de la lucha de clase en el país.El documento aprobado en el Congreso de la COB en Tarija representa un enorme paso adelante en este sentido. El proletariado minero está haciendo carne de la propuesta estratégica de la completa nacionalización de los recursos y la reactivación del aparato productivo a partir del Estado. Lo demuestra el caso de los mineros de Colquiri y también de la lucha contra los retiros del sindicato de Tres Amigos en Potosí, cuyos activistas reivindicaban las Tesis de Pulacayo en su movilización.Actualmente esta propuesta estratégica es la única realmente capaz de ir al fondo de las contradicciones del proceso, sin quedarse en la superficie donde proliferan los intentos de la derecha de instrumentalizar la protesta social. Como ocurre evidentemente tanto con la marcha por el TIPNIS que en el conflicto en salud.La posición de los mineros debe ser por la afirmación de la independencia de clase del proletariado, lo cual en el actual coyuntura solo es posible en base a la autónoma capacidad de iniciativa para pasar “del apoyo [al gobierno del MAS] a la participación efectiva, orgánica y militante para avanzar hacia un proceso socialista” (documento de Tarija). Es necesarioPreparar y organizar desde el sector minero una movilización nacional para la nacionalización sin indemnización y bajo control obrero de los principales recursos del país, como planteado en el documento político del congreso de Tarija. Para que esta consigna se convierta en el eje de la movilización popular (por el salario, el control de los recursos y contra la burocratización), resaltando las contradicciones internas al gobierno y el MAS y elevándose como dique contra la derecha, el oportunismo y el sectarismo. Esto debe servir también a preparar el proletariado minero a la tempestad que se aproxima con la tendencia generalizada a la baja de los precios de los minerales y las inevitables agudizaciones de la lucha que esto conllevará;Hacer de este eje el fulcro articulador de alianzas sociales, promoviendo desde las bases asambleas populares, cumbres sociales, comités de lucha, a los cuales puedan adherirse corrientes, militantes políticos y sectores sociales huérfanos de dirección y norte político;Intervenir en las contradicciones en las filas del campesinado, exigiendo una política de industrialización y dotación de insumos a favor de las comunidades agrarias; por un verdadero poder para el campesinado pobre de determinar las políticas agrarias del país; por la definitiva liquidación del latifundio; por la subvención a la producción y al consumo de las comunidades agrarias.¡Viva la vanguardia minera del proletariado boliviano!¡Viva la FSTMB!
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Hotmail Active View2 attachments (total 213.9 KB)Maquilado...pdfDownload(80.3 KB)Maquilado...pdfDownload(133.6 KB)Download all as zipTIJUANA MAQUILADORA TOUR (Versión en español, por favor ver abajo)
 Tijuana Maquiladora Tour Come to learn about Tijuana communities and workers' conditions and struggles! Saturday, June 2, 2012, 9 am to 3 pm  Important Notice: Citizens returning from Mexico should present an U.S. passport. (Otherwise, they need an official ID, birth certificate, and waiting in line when returning to the U.S. for a period of time to be decided by the border gate officer.) More information: the U.S. State Dept. web site:  http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html#entry_requirements All tour participants must read the US travel alert to Mexico and sign the tour waiver. Please read the attached file.  Schedule (There may be slight variations from tour to tour.) 9:00 am sharp- San Ysidro/Tijuana border. Direction to meet here will be provided later. We will walk together to cross the border gate and travel to our locations in Tijuana using chartered buses for transportation. 9:45 am- The crosses at the border: More than 7,000 immigrants have died trying to cross the border. 10:30 am- Otay Industrial Park, Sanyo, Douglas Furniture, other maquiladoras: workers' labor conditions, labor rights and struggles

NOTE: We will visit the Tijuana industrial area but won't enter any factory. 11:00 am- Community Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar: industrialization, health, environment, urban development 11:30 pm- Metales y Derivados, a story of struggle and success for environmental justice 12:15 pm- Lunch 1:00 pm- Group dialogue about the experience; time for questions and comments 2:00 pm- Working women in Tijuana are organizing artisan cooperatives and promoting an alternative economy. They will bring their handcrafts to the tour. To learn in advance about these cooperatives, please go to http://ollincallicoop.blogspot.com/ 3:00 pm- Return to the Tijuana bus station Donations $30 regular, $20 students, $ 50 solidarity Donations cover the bus, lunch, and a donation to the workers' organizations. To reserve a place, please go to www.sdmaquila.org If you prefer to use the postal system, or for more information, please contact:Herb Shore: sdmaquila at cox.net, (619) 287-5535 Sponsored by Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo for Environmental Justice, San Diego Maquiladora Workers' Solidarity Network, Environmental Health Coalition, and Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras  @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@  MAQUILADORAS  EN TIJUANA: UN RECORRIDO Conoce las luchas y condiciones de trabajo de los y las trabajadoras de las maquilas Sábado 2 de junio, 2012, 9 am a 3 pm Nota importante: Ciudadanos de EUA necesitan pasaporte para regresar a EUA. Ciudadanos de EUA tienen que leer la alerta del Departamento de Estado y firmar el waiver. Please see the alert in an attached file. AGENDA DEL TOUR (PUEDE VARIAR UN POCO DE UNO A OTRO TOUR) 9:00 am en punto en San Ysidro o la entrada a Tijuana desde San Ysidro. Instrucciones en dónde juntarse serán proporcionadas posteriormente. Desde San Ysidro cruzaremos la frontera a pie para abordar un autobús particular que nos transportará en Tijuana. O también nos podemos reunir del lado de Tijuana en la estación de los taxis amarillos. 9:45 am- Visita a las cruces en la frontera: Más de 7,00 emigrantes han muerto tratando de cruzar la frontera. 10:30 am-  Parque Industrial de Otay: Sanyo, Douglas Furniture, otras maquiladoras: condiciones laborales, derechos laborales y luchas en las maquilas NOTA: Visitaremos una zona industrial de Tijuana pero no entraremos a ninguna fábrica. 11:00 am- Comunidad Ejido Chilpancingo-Rio Alamar: industrialización, salud, medio ambiente y desarrollo humano 11:30 am- Metales y Derivados, una historia de lucha y éxito por justicia ambiental 12:15 pm- Lunch 1:00 pm- Dialogo con el grupo sobre la experiencia del tour; preguntas y comentarios 2:00 pm: Trabajadoras de Tijuana están organizando cooperativas que promueven una economía alternativa. Ellas traerán su producción al tour. Para saber desde antes sobre esas cooperativas, favor de visitar: http://ollincallicoop.blogspot.com/ 3:00 pm- Regreso a la estación de autobuses amarillos de Tijuana  DONACIONES Para reservar, favor de escribir a maquilatijuanasandiego at earthlink.net. O si prefiere, puede reservar en la página web (en inglés) at http://sdmaquila.org. USA: $30 regular, $20 students, $50 solidarity México: $20 regular, $10 estudiantes, algunas becas a estudiantes $5, gratis a trabajadoras/es Las donaciones cubren el autobús, almuerzo y una donación a las organizaciones de trabajadoras Invitan: Colectivo Ollin Calli Tijuana, Colectivo Chilpancingo por Justicia Ambiental, Red de San Diego en Solidaridad con los y las Trabajadoras de las Maquiladoras, Coalicion pro Justicia Ambiental, Coalición Pro-Justicia en las Maquiladoras
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Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.Canada15 May 2012Home page · Become an active member · Donate nowTable of contentsLatest NewsUpcoming EventsOngoing CampaignsLatest NewsReport/Press release – 2012-04-12
New Book Examines Human Rights Struggle of Ontario Agriculture Workers
UFCW CanadaReport/Press release – 2012
Foreign nationals working temporarily in Canada
Statistics CanadaPowerPoint presentation/Audiovisual document – 2012-05-20
An End to Immigration?/La fin de l'immigration?
Marie Boti and Malcom GuyPowerPoint presentation/Audiovisual document – 2012-05-01
The Bigger Picture - Disposable labour
GlobalNewsElectronic article – 2012-04-29
Validation of Wage Discrimination Against Temporary Foreing Workers : Systemic violations of human rights as an economic strategy
Eugénie Depatie-PelletierAll NewsUpcoming Events2012.05.17 to 2012.05.18
Migrant Agricultural Workers’ Human Rights and Health Conference
300 Jarvis St, Toronto2012.05.17
Rethinking Settlement Services in a Changing Policy Environment (CARFMS)
CARFMS 2012 Conference, Toronto2012.05.17
Human Trafficking, National Security, and Humanitarian Principles in Canada (CARFMS)
CARFMS 2012 Conference, Toronto2012.05.17
Les statuts légaux alternatifs à la citoyenneté des migrants : poison ou panacée ? (CARFMS)
CARFMS 2012 Conference, Toronto2012.05.17
Recrutement de la main-d'oeuvre étrangère: Acteurs et mécanismes (CARFMS)
CARFMS 2012 Conference, Toronto2012.05.18
Forced work conditions in Canada? The socio-legal effects of employer-tied work permit for temporary foreign workers in « low-skill » occupations (CARFMS)
CARFMS 2012 Conference, Toronto2012.05.20
MayWorks! Celebrating migrant worker struggles through the arts / Célébrer les luttes des travailleurs et travailleuse migrants à travers les arts
419 Saint-Roch, Montréal2012.05.24
Ciné-débat "As-tu mangé? Remercie un travailleur"
Agora du Carrefour de l'Université, Sherbrooke2012.05.26
Un Statut pour toutes et tous! Status for all! Papeles para todas y todos!
Jean-Talon et Boyer, Montréal2012.06.04 to 2012.06.05
Droit à la syndicalisation (travailleurs agricoles du Qc) - Révision judiciaire
Palais de justice de Montréal, Montréal2012.06.06
Relaciones socioespaciales entre los trabadajores agricolas mexicanos en la provincia de Quebec, Canada
3200 Jean-Brillant / B-1210, Montréal2012.07.07
Forum on the trafficking of migrant workers
TBA, TBAAll Upcoming EventsOngoing Campaigns2012.04.29
Québec doit abolir le permis lié à l'employeur
DroitsTravailleuses-rsMigrants/Québec2012.04.24
Stop the Blacklisting of Unionized Migrant Workers!
UFCW/TUAC Canada2012.04.01
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Scrap the Live-In Caregiver Program!
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