David Rodriguez says he was abruptly fired from his job after standing up to his abusive employer less than two months after arriving in Toronto from Mexico in 2022 to work as a cook.
The 39-year-old was one of several temporary foreign workers employed at a downtown restaurant, enduring harsh working conditions that he says included aggressive behaviour from the owner and unpaid overtime.
When Rodriguez raised his concerns, his boss fired him on the spot, he says, leaving him unable to find new work, as his status in the country was tied exclusively to his employer.
There is no labour shortage in Canada, there is a surplus of wannabe slave owners eager to abuse the temporary foreign workers program for profit.
Don’t for a minute think that Canada’s business class is above the practice of modern day slavery, they love importing indentured servants.
The latest scam is an active discussion of the need to implement a six day work week as Greece hopes to do.
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Over the past year, Canada gained 575,000 workers (1.2M incl. their families)
but only added 224,000 full-time jobs
causing 226,000 workers to become unemployed, and 121,000 to work part-time pic.twitter.com/cQ9z55I1VV
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) August 9, 2024
Mmmmm …
How would Conservative government deal with hot topic of immigration? https://t.co/dx041Um1XG
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) August 10, 2024
