Free City Radio
Tuesday October 17th, 2023 with Stefan Christoff
Mostafa Henaway on organizing with immigrant garment workers in Montreal

On Free City Radio edition 184 we continue with our series of interviews focusing on the organizing work of the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal to support garment sector workers facing the outsourcing of their work to the global south. In this context the interviews look at a specific company, Lamour Inc., who between 2006-2008 was outsourcing jobs to contexts where workers could be paid less and more easily exploitable. Workers organized together to demand just compensation, with support from the IWC and were successful. Info on the series here: deindustrialization.org/voices-of-the-iwc For this edition we hear from Mostafa Henaway, a community organizer at the Immigrant Workers Centre who was directly involved in this campaign to support Lamour Inc. workers. Mostafa recently published the book "Essential Work, Disposable Workers," for more information visit: fernwoodpublishing.ca/authors/view/mostafa-henaway