Employment agencies, cheap labor and misery.

As part of the organized eventIt isBy the’Association of Workers of’placement agencies (ATTAP), a member of the IWW MontrIt isto a pris la parole, here is that’he had at say.

Hello at everyone, I am a member of the Industrial Workers Union and Workers, the IWW MontrIt isal. We are here aujourd’hui in solidaritIt is with workers of’placement agency. We are here to support, as workers, and to It isfor at their claims!

Before you talk about their claims, j’loves like to share’a RIt isreflection on placement agencies. The leaflet of the’ATTAP, inviting us aujourd’hui, said the following : « Lare not created employment agenciesIt isent of not’employment, they prIt iscarisent jobs that exist toIt isjat. » C’is right, for dIt isjat workedIt is in an employment agency when I arrivedIt is in QuIt isbec, j’have been findingis at How could we enjoy. Car on born va pas se lecacher, in L’placement agency oÙ j'It issuch, BIt isdart resource for not naming them, when I m’there rendais morning, j'It isshut the only white. Employment agencies, c’is the last resort for newcomers, often the most prIt isCaires and moreIt isprovided. I j’I was lucky, ça n’no hardIt is long before I found a permanent employment, payIt is the course minimum wage.

I'll tell you a little anecdote m’has arrivedIt ise a journIt ise in an employment agency. I lisve in the morning at 5h15 to get theat–low at 6H15, because c’East at l’across the city It isVidement. J’expect that’on m’call. 7h00. 8H00. 8H15 and finally we got into a van. DIt isshare with 5 other guys, all immigrants, for a plant in the depths of’Ouest de l’îthe.

We arrive around 9am00, we enter the rest room of’plant and foremanîbe coming to us. He says at notre dispatcher : « DIt issolIt is, j’had askedIt is women. » We go in the van, back to

l’agency, say nothing. Back at l’agency, the N’there is nothing’another for me aujourd’hui. C’is my Premiisre journIt ise working with BIt isdard, then as is the risgle, I do not payIt is to dIt isplacement. a journIt ise loste!

What strikes me in placement agencies, c’do’they sell : of the labor’œout. They produce nothing. their merchandise, their matiisking awardsisre c’is us. And I trade in the hand’œout good-marchIt is, EcoRVIt isable at thank you, ça reminder to methe l’slavery. Of the’modern slavery of courseandr, framedIt is by the law. C’is for çthat has’is joined at l’Attap aujourd’hui to ask, again, l’abolition of this slavery ofIt isguisIt is and we demand, diss now :

1) A minimum wage at 15$ of the’hour, And this, NOW, not in 2022. Those who tell us’or wait'Patients can be can-willbe afford, not us!

2) The co-responsibilityIt is customers-employers and placement agencies in the rights of workers'.

3) Hiring ADiss three months of work for the mwillme employeur.

4) Salary It isgal for work It isgal, no matter whether the person is employeeIt isan agency or directly from’employer.

These claims must willbe appliedIt isare now!

a finalisre thing s’address at some unions. It is the’modern slavery still exists, arrwillcomplexion nIt isnegotiate with our myîthree. Arrwillcomplexion nIt isnegotiate what should willbe the length of our stringîbecause. Take to the streets. No more parades. Come help us at brewing cage le 1er Mai!