Our Work
Our evolving workers' support space advocates for precarious workers.
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Precarious workers face discrimination at work and their jobs are often non-unionized. Discrimination can be based on, for example, gender, skin color, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, mental or physical abilities, immigration status, age.
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We are often in competition with each other and isolated, where one group of workers is blamed by another.
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We aim to work to build solidarity across all workers: unionized and non-unionized, citizens, permanent residents, temporary foreign workers, seasonal agricultural workers and undocumented workers, workers of all backgrounds and abilities.
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We focus on five areas of community work:
1. Awareness of precarious work
We aim to increase awareness of precarious work and issues related to workers' challenges and opportunities for full employment, education and training.
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We aim to support collaborative and cooperative development of awareness initiatives that are relevant and responsive to community needs.
3. Community building
We aim to support efforts to address the needs of precarious workers and their families.
We aim to advocate for increased support to under-employed or unemployed or precarious workers.
We aim to encourage the development of support mechanisms that promote the safety of workers and facilitate workers' active involvement in the employment and community building processes.
4. Advocacy
We aim to enhance government and community responses to precarious work and discriminatory situations.
We aim to contribute to a sustained and comprehensive dialogue regarding response models that address the challenges associated with diverse communities.
We aim to improve responses to workers experiencing abuse or discriminatory treatment.
We aim to enable Albertans to contribute to solutions through education, training, dialogue, problem solving, and community action.
We aim to support organizing to reduce gaps and avoid duplication of services by encouraging coordination and collaboration within the broader community, amongst service delivery providers, and government departments.
We aim to provide counsel to policy makers, service providers, educators, media, and community advocates.
Contact
If our story is connected to yours, please contact us.
We are continually building new relationships and solidarity across Alberta.