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September 13, 2019

Date: 3 Sep 2019 Adult Migrant English Program Students Welcome Session on Workplace Rights In a joint effort by the Migrant Workers Centre and the Box Hill Institute to strengthen the local migrant community, MWC organiser Lavanya and Hanna delivered a "Know Your Rights...

September 13, 2019

Date: 7 August 2019 School Cleaners Map Out Action Plan for Better Pay, Respect On 29 June, the Migrant Workers Centre (MWC) joined a group of international students and their union, United Voice Victoria (UV), to blueprint issues they face working as school cleaners...

September 13, 2019

Date: 2 July 2019 RMIT Security Guards Call Out Discrimination Migrant Workers Centre supports security guards at protest Source: Migrant Workers Centre After nine years of service with spotless records, security guards at RMIT University face losing their permanent jobs. All are of South...

September 13, 2019

Sudanese Refugee Pockets International Human Rights Award Abdul Aziz Muhamat Source: Michael Green/The Wheeler Centre   Sudanese asylum seeker and activist Abdul Aziz Muhamat won the Martin Ennals Award for exposing the inhumane conditions on Australian off-shore detention centres of refugees, as the Guardian...

September 13, 2019

Refugee Writer on Manus Wins Prestigious Australian Prize Behrouz Boochani Source: AAP Behrouz Boochani, Iranian-Kurdish journalist and writer who has been held on Manus since 2013, won the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction in January 2019, after NSW...

September 13, 2019

Chinese Workers Join Union Campaign for Better Wage, Conditions Members of the Chinese community handing Change the Rules campaign flyers Source: SBS   Overcoming language barriers and cultural differences, migrant workers of Chinese background joined national-wide union campaign demanding better wages and secure jobs,...

September 13, 2019

Migrants join huge union rally demanding pay rise, as new report reveals underpayment of over one billion dollars Migrant workers march in Melbourne on 23 October 2018 Source: Migrant Workers Centre Migrants like Sajita Sitaula Aryal, who came to Melbourne from Nepal five years...

September 13, 2019

International students trapped in exploitative “Chinese UberEATS” as government opens inquiry Kiet is a delivery rider for Easi. Source: SBS   International students were found of being underpaid by a Chinese language food delivery platform and very often had to work in danger because...

September 13, 2019

New centre opens in Melbourne in support of migrant workers, international students Workers from Myanmar share their fight for workplace rights at NUW members George Lekakis (Chair of the Board of MWC), Luke Hilakari (Secretary of Victorian Trades Hall), and Robin Scott MP (Minister...

September 13, 2019

Photo: Eddie Jim, The Age Migrant workers sue labour hire company as government increases regional legal support Shaking off the dirt as long-time victims of abuse and exploitation, a group of migrant workers from Vanuatu brought their labour hire company to the Federal Court in...