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Bill to ban recruitment fees for migrant workers, who often pay thousands for temporary jobs
Migrant workers often pay thousands of dollars in recruitment fees to secure a temporary job in New Brunswick, a process ...
Tag: Migrant Workers Alliance for Change
Migrant labour layoffs attributed to tariffs followed by new hiring raise questions about seafood sector
Temporary foreign workers are being dismissed from jobs in New Brunswick's seafood industry after working for just a few weeks, ...
Day of the Dead celebrations in Esgenoôpetitj and Fredericton honour migrant workers who died in Canada
Mexican migrant workers and their advocates in New Brunswick have marked their third Day of the Dead in the province ...
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Advocates reveal details about ‘systematic exploitation’ at New Brunswick seafood processor [video]
Migrant justice advocates have released details about working conditions at Bolero Shellfish, the seafood processing company on the Acadian Peninsula ...
Activists organize for social change at Social Forum in Wolastokuk [video]
The 2025 Social Forum in Wolastokuk brought together social justice activists over the weekend in Fredericton. The NB Media Co-op ...
Despite public scrutiny, the inhumane conditions of migrant workers in New Brunswick’s seafood processing industry continue
Migrant workers in New Brunswick are arriving for a new season of work in seafood processing. Two years ago, researchers ...
Lawsuit citing ‘widespread exploitation’ at seafood plant signals deeper problems in migrant worker program [video]
A lawsuit launched by two Mexican workers against a New Brunswick seafood processing company signals deeper systemic problems in the ...
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Stop scapegoating migrants
On Monday, August 26, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced further changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. High unemployment, low ...
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‘We need a change’: Protesters demand permanent status for temporary foreign workers [video]
New Brunswick’s seafood industry, worth $1.8 billion in exports last year, relies increasingly on the labour of temporary foreign workers. ...
Migrant workers in New Brunswick join nation-wide calls for permanent resident status for all
On December 16, migrant workers and organizers from Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC) visited the Shediac office of Liberal ...
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