Rogers Warehouse and Rogers Cable

Rogers Cable: You see, for the past three months I worked as a temp agency worker at a Rogers Cable warehouse in Toronto, one of the largest in Canada, with a distribution network throughout Eastern Canada. For eight-to-twelve hours a day my coworkers and I sorted, tested, cleaned, and packaged television/PVR boxes and modems for distribution, according to Rabble. At this Rogers warehouse, temp agency workers outnumbered the unionized Roger employees at least 6 to 1, a testament of the urgent need for unions to find new ways to organize workers in precarious employment and the necessity of legislations that make such organizing feasible and These days, whenever I enter a home I notice things I never did before. What once sat invisibly next to the television sets and computers, has become intimately familiar and immediately recognizable. Just like the TV boxes and Internet modems which sustain the communication infrastructure upon which we all rely, those I worked with at the warehouse are part of the largely invisible, proletarian pillars of this celebrated Information Revolution . Some of my coworkers used to work in decent-paying and protected labour jobs and are now left behind by the waves of deindustrialization. Many others were new immigrants: engineers and teachers who were now experiencing that celebrated Canadian generosity in the form of systematic deskilling. They were all present at this warehouse, trapped in the precarious world of temp agency employment. Temp agency employment is an arrangement that provides corporations like Rogers with a cheap and flexible read: easily exploitable workforce, while the agencies who rented out these workers earn handsome margins on every hour that we worked. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.