Age, race biggest barriers to overcoming unemployment, precarious work
In June 2008, 2,400 workers at Progressive Moulded Products (PMP) in Vaughan, Ont., were laid off after the company went bankrupt. Ninety-seven per cent of the workforce were immigrants.
Five years later, these workers are facing unemployment and precarious work, and struggle with the challenge of "being immigrants all over again," according to a report by Ryerson University’s Centre for Labour Management Relations in Toronto, in collaboration with the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union.
