As this vivid work of documentary photographs of migrant farmer workers in Canada reminds us, much of the labour in Canadian fruit and vegetable farms is done by workers who have flown to this country on temporary visas and must return to their homes in Mexico and the Caribbean once the harvest is in. Harvest Pilgrims, the product of over 20 years' work, places photographer Vincent Pietropaolo firmly in the ranks of such chroniclers of the uprooted and marginalized as Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans. In 2007 the Manitoba Labour Board, in a historic decision, recognized the right of migrant farm workers to organize, while this past December the Supreme Court heard arguments from farm workers who are challenging Ontario laws that deny farm workers formal bargaining rights.
He said there's no denying the accused were working at a major criminal enterprise, but that still doesn't mean an automatic conviction. The Crown has to prove they had both "knowledge and control" of the marijuana. Khyong Wong -- who also goes by the name of Simon Wong -- is being sought on a Canada-wide warrant. His most recent address was in Burnaby, B.C., but justice sources say he has likely returned to his native Hong Kong. C. Mounties initially continued surveillance upon his arrival. A warrant for Wong's arrest was issued Oct. 27, 2005, and has never been executed.
...United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada,. Xin Yuan Liu, Julia McGorman and Bi... Agriculture Council, Justicia for Migrant Workers,. Industrial Accident Victims Group of Ont... Protection Act, 2002 ("AEPA") which excluded farm workers from the Labour Relations Act ("LRA"), but...
The Manitoba Labour Board recently revoked Local 832 United Food and Commercial Workers union as the bargaining representative for the Mexican workers at Mayfair Farm in Portage la Prairie. A year ago, the UFCW and Mayfair Farm signed a three-year collective agreement, giving the migrant workers annual wage increases tied to the provincial minimum wage, overtime rates, seniority rights and a grievance procedure.
... movement that promotes peasant and family-farm sustainable agriculture, argues that these linked ..., Indigenous Peoples, fishers, migrant workers and non-governmental organizations from 80...
That brings us to the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program -- the mechanism by which migrant workers enter Canada. SAWP is an extension of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, a federal initiative that imports more than 170,000 nannies, farm labourers and restaurant staff to Canada. Does SAWP guarantee that foreign workers have the same right to wages and working conditions as Canadian citizens? It is unclear, to say the least. A cynic might say [Monte Solberg]'s announcement, which comes on the heels of efforts in Quebec and Manitoba to unionize migrant workers, was a pre-emptive strike to defuse the appeal of organized labour. More importantly, the announcement is proof positive of the shortcomings of the SAWP. A news release confirming the memorandum between Alberta and Canada indic...
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... community scattered on commercial farms and in small mining towns. We lived first in an ol... by poorly paid black immigrant farm workers. . White farmers grew mostly tobacco for export. MMigrant workers were from neighbouring Zambia, Malawi and ...
This article focuses on rural girls' aspirations of becoming migrants in a setting where girls are subjected to social constraints curtailing their movements in the midst of an otherwise mobile society, where mothers and grandmothers frequently recall their experiences in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, and boys set off on their first migration in their mid- or late teens. However, the high level of mobility affects both intergenerational relations and the ways in which girls can justify their wish to migrate. Based on multi-sited ethnographic research between 2002 and 2008 in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire, the article explores the ways in which images of success and material wealth of (trans)national migrants feed into adolescent girls' imaginations of migration and its outcome. Furthermore,...
... French attempts to entice more migrant workers to Ivorian plantations after the abolition of forc... being incorporated into me work on the farm. Girls usually help caring for small children from...
MIGRANT workers at Mayfair Farms in Portage la Prairie won the right to join the union of their choice in a potentially critical ruling issued Tuesday by the Manitoba Labour Relations Board. The Manitoba ruling is expected to have its first impact on the three Quebec cases. The Quebec workers and the Manitoba workers all voted last fall in a successive votes to join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union.
A steady flow of migrant workers who toil the country's farms and provide the cheap labour necessary for many to turn a profit are meeting bitter resistance as they try to unionize. The workers are fed up of being mistreated," says Patricia Perez, founder of a support group for migrant workers that is funded by the Quebec chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers. Manitoba Conservative labour critic Ron Schuler has denounced the board's ruling, believed to be the first of its kind in Canada, as "nonsense.
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