FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 14, 2016

 

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Julia Coburn

Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM)

From Mexico: 01-800-590-1773; From the US: 1-855-234-9699 // julia@cdmigrante.org

 

Andrea Galvez

United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada

+52 55-3300-6144; 55 3126 2421// andrea.galvez@ufcw.mx

 

Migrant Women Workers Demand Justice

Mexico City – On behalf of Mexican women migrant workers, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. and United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, call for an immediate, meaningful response from the United States and Canadian governments to sex discrimination that is rampant throughout both countries’ temporary labor programs. This discrimination continues despite the two governments’ obligations to promote the elimination of employment discrimination under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation, the North American Free Trade Agreement labor side accord.

WHAT: Press Conference to Demand Justice for Migrant Women Workers in the United States and Canadian Temporary Labor Programs

WHEN: Friday, July 15, 2016 at 1:00 PM CT

WHO: Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. and United Food and Commercial Workers Canada, supported by a transnational coalition of migrant advocacy organizations. Speakers include Adareli Ponce, member of the Comité del Migrante y petitioner in the complaint against the United States; Rachel Micah-Jones, Executive Director of Centro de los Derechos del Migrante; Shane Crary-Ross, summer law clerk at Centro de los Derechos del Migrante; Pablo Godoy, Assistant to the President, UFCW Canada; Andrea Galvez, Mexico Liaison, UFCW Canada; Leonor Rodríguez Valdivia, petitioner in the complaint against Canada.

WHERE: El Centro Nacional de Comunicación Social, Cencos, Medellín 33, Roma Norte, Mexico City

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The transnational coalition of allies includes Global Workers Justice Alliance, Voces Mesoamericanas, Sin Fronteras, and dozens of other organizations. Additional co-petitioners in the complaint against the United States include the AFL-CIO, North Carolina Justice Center, and others. Full lists are available in each complaint.