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Labour On The Margins - A Free Public Symposium
Date: Friday November 16, 2007 from 7:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Learn and share about labour issues and challenges and co-develop strategies for advocacy and action.
Labour on the Margins will focus on three distinct groups of labourers who experience marginalization: sex workers, migrant and guest workers, and immigrant workers. The program will showcase some of the grassroots organizing that is ongoing in these communities, as well as academic, political and activist perspectives.
November 16th, 7pm¬9pm &
November 17th, 9am-4pm
SFU Segal Graduate School of Business
500 Granville Street (at Pender), Vancouver
Space is limited and reservations are required.
Please call 778-782-5100 to reserve.
Program will include:
Guest Speakers:
- Dr. Guy Standing (Keynote Speaker) - is Professor of Economic Security at the University of Bath, UK and Professor of Labour Economics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. From 1999 until march 2006, he was Director of the Socio-Economic Security Program of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), based in Geneva.
- Raj Chouhan (Keynote Speaker) - is the NDP MLA for Burnaby-Edmonds. Mr. Chouhan serves as Opposition Critic for Human Rights, Multiculturalism and Immigration. Mr. Chouhan was also the founding President of the Canadian Farmworkers' Union and served as a Director of the Hospital Employees Union.
- Regi David (Keynote Speaker) - is an Organizer at the Workers' Action Centre (WAC) in Toronto. The WAC works with non-unionized workers who are in low wage, temporary, contract and non standard work.
- Marjorie Griffin Cohen (Closing Speaker) - is a Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. She is a political economist and an activist who writes on public policy and economics with special emphasis on issues concerning labour, women, and the Canadian economy.
- Derek Evans (Symposium Facilitator) - is a writer, teacher, scholar and activist. His work in peace and human rights spans three decades and five continents, and bridges local and global concerns.
Panel/Workshop Presentations from:
- Justicia 4 Migrant Workers - an immigrant based, grassroots organization based in Ontario and British Columbia that together with the workers struggles to defend and to expand the rights of the seasonal agricultural migrant workers.
- BC Coalition of Experiential Communities - a consortium of sex worker activists who work to eliminate the oppressive systems and forces that create harm for individuals in the sex industry.
- MOSAIC - a multilingual non-profit organization dedicated to addressing issues that affect immigrants and refugees in the course of their settlement and integration into Canadian society.
Presented by Community Education Programs, Continuing Studies, Simon Fraser University.
For more information please contact: community-ed@sfu.ca
Generously sponsored by:
-Canadian Heritage Human Rights Program
- Canadian Labour Congress
- David and Cecilia Ting Fund.
Supported by:
- B.C. Federation of Labour
- SFU's Centre for Labour Studies.
For a pdf copy of the poster click here.
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