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Naujawan (youth) uniting to stop the exploitation of international students & workers! #LuttBandKaro #StopWageTheft
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ਮੋਰਚਾ ਫਤਹਿ: VICTORY!
After 33 days of continuous protest outside Live Freely Foods, 37 bakery workers have recovered $185K in wages from the bankrupt company.
This victory, achieved through struggle rather than the legal system, is a product of organization & solidarity.✊🏽
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Yesterday we protested in front of Chat Hut restaurant in Brampton to demand that they pay the rightful wages of their former worker, who is owed $18,426 for her labour. We will not stop until she is paid what she’s owed.
#BoycottChatHut
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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An international student named Pardeep Singh in the UK demanded to be paid his wages by his employer & warned others not to work for him.
The employer retaliated by physically assaulting the student on camera. The video went viral.
CW: physical violence
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This morning, NSN members joined workers & labour unions to block the entrance to INKAS, a Toronto-based company that supplies military equipment to Israel.
#FreePalestine
#EndIsraeliOccupation
Read our solidarity statement below
✊🏽⚔️🇵🇸
BREAKING: we've joined with
@LAATCanada
&
@WBWCanada
to block entrances to INKAS, a Toronto-based company that supplies military equipment to Israel. As workers, we say no labour for genocide!
#CanadaStopArmingIsrael
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BOYCOTT CHAT HUT!
Listen to this powerful speech by the young woman demanding her rightful wages of $18,426 from Chat Hut! She is leading the way against exploitation of international students & we stand with her.
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
Full vid:
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What does imprisoning & deporting a worker do to transform the system that led to this accident?
Are highways safer for truckers dying on the job every week? Will employers be punished for pushing untrained drivers to deliver loads at an inhuman pace?
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NSN DEFENDS AGAINST ATTACK BY WAGE THIEF:
Yesterday Sukh Auto owner, Sukhdeep Hunjan, tried to attack NSN members for protesting to demand the wages he stole. We drove him away.
#Fateh
#JangJaariHai
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"Arshdeep Singh, 30, is also a trucker and a member of the Naujawan Support Network. He says truckers also deal with threats of deportation from employers, who send them out on long assignments despite rough weather conditions and lack of rest."
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VERIFIED CHOR: The Ministry of Labour has ordered Sukh Auto owner, Sukhdeep Hunjan, to pay $4,352.90 in wages and $1,000 in compensation for assaulting his former worker. If Sukhdeep doesn’t pay the wages, we will be back.
#LuttBandKaro
Read this thread about the campaign 🧵
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Today, international students in the UK protested against the employer (Baljit) & his brazen act of violence and exploitation. We stand in solidarity.
International students and workers in the UK: unite, organize, and fight for what you are owed.
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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ਮੋਰਚਾ ਫਤਿਹ: After 18 days of protesting 24/7 in front of the CBSA headquarters in Mississauga, int'l students have secured an important win: the government is postponing all of their deportations until investigations into cases of misrepresentation are complete.
Our statement👇
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BREAKING: On Labour Day yesterday, dozens of workers hand-delivered a letter to the owners of Live Freely Foods, a Mississauga industrial bakery, to demand tens of thousands in unpaid wages. They have been protesting in front of the company at 6310 Kestrel Rd since Mon Aug 28.🧵
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ਫ਼ਤਿਹ // VICTORY
Buta loses his $250,000 defamation case against NSN members & pays his former driver the $5,391 in wages he was owed!
Watch & read below to learn about the path to this victory in our very first campaign to
#StopWageTheft
that began last summer.
#LuttBandKaro
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Yesterday, we began the new year by demanding that Gagandeep Dhaliwal, owner of Canadawide Logistics, do right by his workers.
Gagandeep owes 10 former drivers $40,000+ in wages, as well as an apology for insulting their families & the Sikh religion.
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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BREAKING: International students facing deportation to India begin 24-hour permanent protest in front of CBSA head office in Mississauga
The students have been protesting at 6900 Airport Road day and night since Monday. Join them✊🏽
Read for more👇🏽🧵
#StoptheDeportations
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🚨CHOR ALERT🚨
Yesterday, 25+ truck drivers staged an independent protest in Brampton to demand over $352,000 in total wages from Samhil Logistics owner, Shubhdeep Grewal.
Listen to the drivers’ stories & next steps (English captions included)👇🏽
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BREAKING: Yesterday, International students protested day & night against Alpha College in Scarborough for being forced to take an unofficial “drop” without any advanced notice. 🧵
#LuttBandKaro
#Justice4Students
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NSN members at the
@occupyuoft
pakka morcha (encampment) in solidarity to demand that
@UofT
divest from companies & institutions enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. ✊🏽🦅
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CHOR ALERT: Brampton restaurant “Chat Hut” paid its former worker $8.33/hour. They owe her $18,426 in unpaid wages!
On Sat Dec 4 (11 am, County Court Park) we will be rallying to demand that Chat Hut pay this worker & start paying their other workers the min wage immediately! 🧵
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GOOD ENOUGH TO WORK, GOOD ENOUGH TO STAY
International students are organizing to demand an extension of their post-graduate work permits set to expire in 2024-25. Without an extension, tens of thousands of workers face deportation.
RALLY: June 2, 4 pm, Chinguacousy Park
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“Cars don’t run on water.
Raise our pay.”
Solidarity with the delivery drivers on strike in Winnipeg who are demanding liveable wages from their employers — SkipTheDishes, DoorDash and Uber Eats.
#FullSupport
#LuttBandKaro
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BREAKING: After 2 weeks of 24/7 protest, Lovepreet Singh’s deportation has been postponed. The fight continues for the permanent cancellation of the students’ deportation orders and a right to permanent residency.
#StopDeportations
#StandForStudents
👇🏽🧵
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BREAKING: 100 international students receive passing grades from
@AlgomaU
after an official review of their exams. The partial win comes after 5 days of permanent protest outside Algoma's Brampton campus, but the protest continues.
Read this thread for the full story 🧵
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On Saturday, international student graduates & supporters protested at Brampton’s Shoppers World bus terminal to demand extensions to work permits expiring in 2024-25, an end to LMIA-based exploitation & fair pathway to PR
#GoodEnough2WorkGoodEnough2Stay
#NoMoreKomagataMaru
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“Our approach is to directly confront the people who exploit us… We are proud to take the same kind of action against companies that are profiting from the slaughter of Palestinians.”
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BREAKING: Toronto police & private security are forcibly removing students’ possessions from the protest space and attempting to end the multi-day demonstration to demand justice for Alpha College students.
BREAKING: Yesterday, International students protested day & night against Alpha College in Scarborough for being forced to take an unofficial “drop” without any advanced notice. 🧵
#LuttBandKaro
#Justice4Students
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The people inciting hatred against Muslims and racialized people in Canada are in the same camp as those perpetuating racist and xenophobic lies about international students and immigrant workers.
An advertising van was spotted in Toronto inciting a fear of Muslims in Canada.
This is extremely dangerous messaging, and should not be condoned. We have seen Islamophobic hate kill in Canada, including in Ontario.
This public campaign is pure Islamophobia and hate.
We are
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"Attar Sodhi has been a truck driver for 12 years...
Sodhi said there is less concern about vaccine mandates and more worries about “the issues of wage theft, safer roads and community safety.”"
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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“Oh you rulers who steal our sweat and exploit us, our sweat even melts iron.
You all are here to melt iron.”
Listen to part 1 of this electrifying speech by Surjit Daudher at the July 9 protest (+English translation). More speeches coming soon!
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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From Jaskirat Singh Sidhu in Canada to Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos in America, workers — especially truck drivers — get criminalized for the crimes and responsibilities of their employers.
Solidarity with truckers blocking highways into Colorado to protest this injustice.
Truckers aren’t entering Colorado in protest of Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos getting a 110 year sentence after his breaks failed and his truck killed 4 people, a tragedy the company should be liable for. I think we’re about to see the power of truckers.
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"Wage theft is no longer acceptable in Brampton. It has a cost now. Groups of organized workers will impose that cost through protests… that expose exploiters to the community and force them to change their behaviour.”
#LuttBandKaro
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Truckers face all sorts of real struggles: wage theft, abusive & dangerous working conditions, low pay rates. Many of us are new to Canada with precarious immigration status.
We are organizing to change these conditions. Listen to our interview with CTV for more
#LuttBandKaro
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✊🏽This weekend, we delivered a strong message to Sukhdeep Hunjan, owner of Sukh Auto in Brampton: pay your former worker the $4,000+ he’s owed in wages and vacation pay.
Our public campaign will continue until he’s paid.
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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BREAKING: Int’l students take the protest to the doorstep of CBSA headquarters in Mississauga
The CBSA has the power to defer the enforcement of students’ deportations, just as the federal gov’t has the power to cancel the deportation orders. Let’s keep up the pressure on both!
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For those asking, the employer’s name is Baljit Singh and his company is “Conform UK” in Wolverhampton.
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🚨CHOR (WAGE THIEVES) EXPOSED
On Saturday, truck drivers protested in front of the homes of 2 employers — Samhil Logistics & Truck IT — to demand $330K+ in wages. Workers shared their stories of wage theft, abuse and death threats received from employers seeking to silence us.🧵
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‼️ VERIFIED CHOR: Ministry of Labour orders the owners of Al-Madina Halal Meat — Arsalan & Shaheen Qureshi — to pay their former worker $8,071.98 in unpaid wages and $2,000 for threatening him with deportation & criminal charges!
Read & share 🧵!
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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Here is a video of the employer holding the student hostage and forcing him to apologize for speaking out:
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In May, Alpha College unenrolled hundreds of int’l students, jeopordizing their future. The students responded by organizing a 2-week encampment outside the college demanding to be re-enrolled. They won.
A new documentary chronicles their struggle:
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BLACK-BROWN UNITY IN BRAMPTON ✊🏽
Listen to this powerful speech by Gabriel, a former migrant farm worker and organizer with
@j4mw
who joined our July 9 protest in front of Sukh Auto!
#Solidarity
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
Part 1:
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BREAKING: Indian international students stage permanent protest outside
@AlgomaU
Brampton campus after a white course instructor failed over 100 of them (some for the second time) while refusing to explain or justify his decision.
#StandForStudents
#StopTheExploitation
🧵👇🏾
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The morcha to
#StopTheDeportations
of international students went into the 7th and 8th night this weekend, with hundreds showing up every evening to hear speeches, do ardaas and have langar together every evening.
JOIN THE 24 HR PROTEST:
6900 Airport Rd, Mississauga
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BOYCOTT PARTS AVATAR!
Yesterday we protested in front of
@partsavatar
, an auto parts warehouse in Mississauga that owes their former worker $9,689.14 in wages, overtime & vacation pay. Rupinder Jhaj & Sherdeep Singh will not get away with wage theft & threatening their workers⚔️
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Employers are trying to silence us with expensive legal actions.
We will not be silenced.
We need your help to fight back.
A humble request to donate to NSN's Legal Defence Fund to collectively fight employers' retaliatory defamation lawsuits:
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“…Grewal says she hopes others can benefit from her fight.
"I'm standing, not for myself. I'm standing for every international student who comes here facing this problem," she said. "We students are together."”
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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This
#CanadaDay
, we unite in solidarity with Indigenous nations who faced a genocide and continue to fight ongoing colonial violence at the hands of the 🇨🇦 government. We are grateful to be guests on your land and stand with you in your struggle✊🏽
#NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenLand
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⚠️CHOR ALERT: Parts Avatar, owned by Sherdeep Singh & Rupinder Jhaj, owes Gaganpreet Kaur $9,689.14 in wages, overtime, and vacation pay!
Watch this video & read this thread in which we share evidence of wage theft and our response to Parts Avatar supporters.🧵
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“…Today it is Inkas, tomorrow it will be another company. We will stand against them all, until all of Palestine is free.”
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“Wage theft is a major issue across the trucking industry, not just in Brampton,” he said. “There are employers who don’t pay their drivers. These are the real issues we should all be uniting over, not vaccine mandates.” - truck driver & NSN member, Arshdeep Singh
Almost one in five Canadian truckers is South Asian, but many don’t see themselves represented in the
#truckerconvoy
.
My piece for the Globe and Mail.
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BREAKING: Organized LFF bakery workers recover total $146K in wages and expect to recover the remaining amount next Wednesday.
FATEH (VICTORY): Join the workers on Wed Sept 27 at 6310 Kestrel Road to mark their last day of protest. Langar (community dinner) will be served. ✊🏽
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After an energizing meeting yesterday, NSN members put up posters of Mahabir Bhatth (Baba Dhaba owner) across Brampton & Mississauga to make sure that the community knows if his exploitative practices. Mahabir owes at least 7 former Baba Dhaba workers over $21,000 in total wages.
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The 6th night of the international student morcha to
#StopTheDeportations
is going strong with langar seva and sangat in chardi kala 🙏🏽
Join the 24hr protest:
6900 Airport Road, Mississauga
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BREAKING: Organized LFF bakery workers win nearly 1/3 of their wages ($50,000) and enter their 3rd week of protest for the remaining wages.
Join the picket line at 6310 Kestrel Rd, Mississauga, daily from 12-7 pm! ਜੰਗ ਜਾਰੀ ਹੈ ✊
Thread 👇🧵
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ਸੰਘਰਸ਼ ਦਾ ਸਿੱਟਾ: A trucking company stole $13K+ in wages from 3 drivers. They worked together to deliver a letter to the company & planned a public campaign to demand their wages.
After seeing the drivers united, the owner’s business partner paid all 3 drivers their wages. ✊🏽⚔️
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"...the camp saw more and more supporters every night. Some evenings, when hundreds of people turned out, the protest even made it right up to the doors of the CBSA detainment office, reminding officials that they had no plans to leave until they won."
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STOLEN WAGES ON STOLEN LAND
The struggles of Indigenous peoples & immigrants from Panjab & elsewhere are connected. ਮੂਲਨਿਵਾਸੀ ਅਤੇ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਪਰਵਾਸੀਆਂ ਦੇ ਸੰਘਰਸ਼ ਜੁੜੇ ਹੋਏ ਹਨ।
That’s why we were honoured to have
@nickwestes
speak at our protest against Parts Avatar on Oct 8.
Part 1👇🏽
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BREAKING: International students protested in front of Minister
@marcomendicino
’s office today to demand the cancellation of deportation orders following the federal committee on immigration’s recommendations to the CBSA stop the deportations
#StopDeportations
#Stand4Students
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Many more of Brampton’s landlords need a hefty dose of working class power like this ✊🏽
After Kyle refused to discuss the issue, tenants marched through Kyle’s Brampton neighbourhood and put up posters.
Follow the tenants and their fight on Instagram at 1570tenants
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This past weekend at the
@labornotes
conference in Chicago, we were honoured to learn from workers about their struggles and to share our own experiences on fighting against wage theft. We will be taking these lessons back to the streets of Brampton!
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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What if organized workers understood the value of our labour to our exploiters? What can we do to change unjust laws? What is the role of personal sacrifice in political struggle?
We explored these questions while protesting
@PartsAvatar
In action, workers become philosophers:
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BREAKING: Organized LFF bakery workers recover $50K more in wages, totalling $100K so far since their daily protest began on Aug 28.
LFF’s owner says that he will submit a payment plan in writing for the remaining amount today. The workers’ protest continues. Stay tuned.
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Workers are exploited because this system was not made for us.
Domestic students can work for as many hours as they like, but int’l students can’t. When Canada saw a labour shortage under the pandemic, for some time international students were allowed to work up to 40 hrs.
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A politics of divide and rule, benefiting only the companies that profit off our labour.
Solidarity between workers, whether they are unionized or non-unionized, new immigrants or citizens, is the only way. ✊🏽
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"NSN is currently involved in several active campaigns supporting immigrant workers, including Mr. Sidhu. [...] “I have to keep fighting for others like me, who think they are powerless,” he said. “I want to tell them that there is strength in numbers.”"
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The farmers protest saw many days of torrential downpour and freezing nights over their one year occupation around Delhi.
Today those farmers’ children (int’l students) are waging & sustaining a struggle of their own against deportation at 6900 Airport Rd — rain or shine.⚔️
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✊🏽 Int'l students protesting against
@slc_alpha
@whatsinsideslc
on their 4th day call for support:
Yesterday, police & security forcibly removed students’ possessions from the space in order to end the multi-day demo. Students remain committed to justice for all their peers.
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One Brampton funeral home sees 4-5 int’l students’ bodies per month — due to suicide, heart attacks & dangerous workplace conditions.
Meanwhile, employers like Chat Hut open new restaurants.
Employers know that we need jobs to survive & get PR. They profit from our suffering.
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To Sukhdeep & all wage thieves: you can run and hide, you can try to disrupt our protests or call the police on us, you can pay the most expensive lawyers to sue us — we will not back down. Our struggle will continue for as long as you continue the exploitation.
#LuttBandKaro
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Members of
@chinatownFOCT
are organizing against exploitative employers in Chinatown!
We are moved by how Chinese workers have drawn from the language in NSN leaflets. Solidarity is our strength✊🏽
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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BREAKING: NSN members pen letter to Minister of Labour
@MonteMcNaughton
addressing his government’s role in rampant wage theft against workers.
Read the letter with previously unpublished government data:
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Powerful words spoken by Gaganpreet Kaur — an NSN member who is fighting for $9,689 in wages, vacation pay & overtime pay from her previous employer, Parts Avatar.
Join us! 👉🏽RALLY // ਧਰਨਾ
Saturday Oct 8, 1:00 PM
(Meeting + Protest)
Britannia Rd E & Shawson Dr. Mississauga
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When NSN members began organizing against wage theft last year, employers responded by ignoring our demands or threatening us with physical violence, deportation & defamation lawsuits. We pressed ahead despite the risks & in 10 months recovered over $145K of our members' wages.🧵
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BREAKING: Buta, owner of Flowboy Haulage, has been ordered by the Ministry of Labour to pay his former driver $5,391.29 in wages! 🧵
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“Private colleges exploiting international students for profit is nothing new, so this does not surprise us,” a Simran Kaur from [NSN] told PressProgress. The group is currently supporting students organizing in Scarborough after Alpha College “unenrolled hundreds of students..."
Ministry of Colleges & Universities shut down Ontario PC candidate’s private college after it ran an unaccredited program.
The ministry said the college “misled students” and failed to act “in accordance with law and with integrity and honesty.”
#onpoli
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Today, NSN spoke to international students at Lambton College about how they can defend themselves & others against exploitation. The presentation included legal information about worker & tenant rights, and how to fight for what we are owed together.
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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ALL TALK, NO ACTION?
Politicians across all parties have showed support for the demand to
#StopDeportations
of int'l students victim to fraudulent immigration agents.
Yet no one has committed to permanently cancelling the deportation orders, such as the one on June 13.
Why?👇
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We stand in solidarity with
@CUPEOntario
education workers defying Ford’s draconian Bill 28✊🏽
Our farmers went on ‘strike’ for a year, occupied the arteries of Delhi & won the repeal of Modi’s fascist laws. The law cannot repress the will of workers so long as we are organized.
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""We are working in jobs that are non-unionized, that have high turnover.” This has led NSN to emphasize direct action, social media strategy, and public pressure campaigns... “We’re reflecting the working conditions of our membership.”"
@labornotes
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Solidarity ✊🏽 We humbly appeal to all members of the labour movement to actively support this morcha (permanent protest) by joining international students at 6900 Airport Rd. Join us with your locals/contingents, especially for community gatherings every evening at 7 pm.
The OFL sent a letter to
@CanadianPM
@JustinTrudeau
@SeanFraserMP
@marcomendicino
to demand:
#stopthedeportations
of int'l students & support
#Status4All
: "Everyone deserves fairness, dignity, and equal rights."
#StatusForAll
#canlab
#onlab
#onpoli
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“If we won’t take action right now, it will jeopardize the future of many people,” says 24-year-old Devender Singh, citing the problem of a transient labor force & an increasingly entrenched system of exploitation. “This organization is shaking the roots”
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A white police sergeant then threatened to call the riot squad against NSN members & arrest every one of us, including elders & young children, even after we explained why we were protesting. We did not waver & continued our protest until all were free from police questioning.
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Solidarity protest in Brampton yesterday to demand justice for the 2,000+ international students left in crisis since 3 private colleges (CCSQ, M College, CDE) & a connected recruiting firm in Montreal declared bankruptcy. Thanks to all who joined us!
#LuttBandKaro
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So we did what we said we would do: begin a campaign to
#BoycottChatHut
.
No matter our immigration status, no matter where we work: no one should be underpaid and exploited.
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ਸੰਘਰਸ਼ ਦਾ ਸਿੱਟਾ // The power of protest
On the night before our Dec 2 rally, when we were planning to protest in front of a third employer’s home, this driver was paid $8000 out of $16,500 in wages owed. He was paid the remaining amount a week later.
#LuttBandKaro
#StopWageTheft
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Last Thursday, NSN members met with representatives from Ontario’s Ministry of Labour. We conveyed our criticisms of the Ministry’s approach to enforcing labour laws against employers who exploit workers. 🧵
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👉🏾Chat Hut exploited her immigration status by saying they’d help her with PR, and then broke their promise. When the worker requested she be paid min wage, the employer refused and said she would need to work below the minimum wage for another year. Exhausted, the worker quit.
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Many international students & immigrant workers deliver our food and drive us around the city through apps like Uber & SkipTheDishes. App-based gig workers are employees, and this important ruling by the Ministry of Labour affirms that basic principle.
#Solidarity
#WorkersUnited
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This worker is leading the way against the exploitation of Int’l students. We stand with her. After reviewing her evidence, we sent a letter to Chat Hut demanding they pay this worker by Nov 15. Instead their lawyer sent us an email threatening us with legal action. Shame!
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UNITE WITH MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FIGHTING FOR THEIR FUTURES!
Saturday January 28, 11 AM
Gurudwara Guru Nanak Darbar, Montreal
The corrupt owners of 3 private colleges in Montreal have declared insolvency and put hundreds of students in crisis. Read more below 🧵
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Love and salute to all who joined us yesterday, especially those from other organizations of working class people fighting against capitalist exploitation of all forms. Solidarity is our strength.
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Tens of thousands of international student graduates face deportation due to expiring work permits.
We were good enough to work, especially at the height of COVID; we are good enough to stay!
RALLY: Sat June 22. Meet at 4 pm at Kaneff Park (behind Shopper's World) in Brampton
GOOD ENOUGH TO WORK, GOOD ENOUGH TO STAY
International students are organizing to demand an extension of their post-graduate work permits set to expire in 2024-25. Without an extension, tens of thousands of workers face deportation.
RALLY: June 2, 4 pm, Chinguacousy Park
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👉🏾Chat Hut relies on underpaying their workers for profit. They told this worker they couldn’t pay her minimum wage because they were struggling under the pandemic. But in reality, they were able to open a second location in 2020 and are now getting ready to open a third.
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An overdose crisis mediated by employers:
“Some students...don’t know there’s fentanyl and benzodiazepines... They’re just like, ‘Oh my friend gave me some pills because I’m a truck driver and I wanted to do a longer shift, or I’m at a construction site"
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BREAKING: Yesterday a Conservative MP put a motion in the Parliamentary Committee on Immigration calling on
@SeanFraserMP
to suspend the deportation of international students to India until their claims are investigated. The motion was adjourned (delayed) by a 6-5 vote
Updates🧵
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Enough is enough. We are tired of seeing our people suffer and sending bodies back home.
Employers should not be able to sleep at night if they exploit workers.
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This worker was underpaid, overworked, and exploited. SHAME!
👉🏾Chat Hut paid her $8.33/hr for 12-hour work days without adequate breaks. She did not receive vacation, public holiday or overtime pay.
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ਮੋਰਚੇ ਦੀ ਨੀਹਾਂ
Selfless community members:
the foundation of struggle
Led by the students facing deportation (IG:
@stand_for_student
), this ongoing morcha would be impossible without the volunteers who do seva (selfless service) even when they’re not asked to.
#StopDeportations
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BREAKING: 100+ True North Freight truck drivers are protesting for nearly $1 million in unpaid wages after company shuts down. The drivers sat in the company office for 3 days demanding answers, but received none.
#StopWageTheft
#LuttBandKaro
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