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Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class
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This chapter is about how migrant and racialized worker organizations took leadership in broad-based campaigns to improve conditions for the entire working class. As one example, the chapter details the role worker centres played in the struggles to raise the minimum wage in Canada, more widely known as the Fight for $15 campaign. This was led by racialized, low-wage migrant workers, but it affects everyone. Despite the challenges, the Fight for $15 campaign showed the potential for multi-racial, working-class solidarity between unionized workers with citizenship and non-unionized migrant workers.
Contributors
Mostafa Henaway
Mostafa Henaway, a Canadian-born Egyptian, is a long-time community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, where he has been organizing for justice for immigrant/migrant workers for over two decades. He is also a researcher and PhD candidate at Concordia University
