Staff at Winnipeg s Welcome Place back at work after months-long lockout
Employees at Manitoba s Interfaith Immigration Centre also known as Welcome Place are heading back to work after being locked out by their employer for the last three months.
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Staff at Welcome Place were locked out on April 27.(Walther Bernal/CBC)
Employees with the Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council also known as Welcome Place are heading back to work after being locked out by their employer for nearly three months.
More than 20 casual and full-time employees at Welcome Place, an agency that provides settlement services for refugees and newcomers, were locked out on April 27.
Posted: Apr 28, 2021 8:43 PM CT | Last Updated: April 29
Fatuma Omar, right, showed up for an appointment at Welcome Place in downtown Winnipeg on Wednesday morning only to find its employees locked out.(Lyzaville Sale/CBC)
Fatuma Omar showed up for an appointment at Welcome Place in downtown Winnipeg on Wednesday morning only to find its employees locked out. They didn t tell me, said the 27-year-old Somali woman, who scheduled a day off work to access refugee settlement services at the Bannatyne Avenue building.
After exiting the facility, Omar said people inside were willing to help but didn t speak her language. They told her she could also go to the Immigrant Centre a few blocks away, another non-profit offering services to newcomers.