blake 3:17
2nd January 2010, 22:27
PUBLIC VIGIL FOR MIGRANT WORKERS KILLED AT WORK
January 7, 2010, 7pm – 8:30pm
2757 Kipling Avenue
Buses leave 252 Bloor West at 5:15 sharp.
RSVP by Noon, Jan 6, [email protected]
Four construction workers with precarious immigration status fell to their deaths on Christmas Eve in one of the worst workplace disasters that Toronto has seen in decades. The swing stage scaffolding they were working on broke into two pieces, plummeting the four workers over 13 stories to the concrete below at 2757 Kipling Avenue. A fifth man is in critical condition and will need medical attention for the rest of his life.
We mourn the deaths of these workers. We are enraged that such injustice can take place. Migrant workers take care of children, feed communities, construct housing, clean offices, and take up many other occupations in almost all industries but are treated like second-class workers and denied even the most basic protections.
The workers who died were provided insufficient safety harnesses and forced to work on a site where a cease and desist order had been issued. Workers without full status work the most dangerous jobs in the country and are systemically prevented from being able to assert their rights. These workers died because Canada denied them full status.
Government officials, recruiters and employers need to be prosecuted while those precariously employed need to be protected at work! While we commemorate and celebrate the lives of these workers, we also demand justice for the workers, their families and all migrant workers across this province. Broad and far reaching changes are needed.
Dilshod Mamurov, Aleksey Blumberg, Fayzulla, Vladimir Korostin, and all injured and killed workers demand this.
This is first in a series of actions, please visit
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org (http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/) and
http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/ (http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/) for updates, and to read the full statement.
January 7, 2010, 7pm – 8:30pm
2757 Kipling Avenue
Buses leave 252 Bloor West at 5:15 sharp.
RSVP by Noon, Jan 6, [email protected]
Four construction workers with precarious immigration status fell to their deaths on Christmas Eve in one of the worst workplace disasters that Toronto has seen in decades. The swing stage scaffolding they were working on broke into two pieces, plummeting the four workers over 13 stories to the concrete below at 2757 Kipling Avenue. A fifth man is in critical condition and will need medical attention for the rest of his life.
We mourn the deaths of these workers. We are enraged that such injustice can take place. Migrant workers take care of children, feed communities, construct housing, clean offices, and take up many other occupations in almost all industries but are treated like second-class workers and denied even the most basic protections.
The workers who died were provided insufficient safety harnesses and forced to work on a site where a cease and desist order had been issued. Workers without full status work the most dangerous jobs in the country and are systemically prevented from being able to assert their rights. These workers died because Canada denied them full status.
Government officials, recruiters and employers need to be prosecuted while those precariously employed need to be protected at work! While we commemorate and celebrate the lives of these workers, we also demand justice for the workers, their families and all migrant workers across this province. Broad and far reaching changes are needed.
Dilshod Mamurov, Aleksey Blumberg, Fayzulla, Vladimir Korostin, and all injured and killed workers demand this.
This is first in a series of actions, please visit
http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org (http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/) and
http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/ (http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/) for updates, and to read the full statement.