TY - RPRT T1 - Urgent reforms needed for migrant agricultural workers, says UFCW Canada in new report CY - Canada PB - UFCW Canada & The Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - UFCW Canada, the country’s leading advocate for agricultural workers for over 30 years, is calling for urgent reforms to protect the health, safety and rights of migrant workers in a new report. The Status of Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada 2023: Special Health & Safety Report examines critical health and safety concerns of the current system, described as contemporary form of slavery, that leaves migrant workers vulnerable to ongoing abuse and exploitation. UFCW’s new report highlights the dangers that migrant agricultural workers face while in Canada, including sub-standard living conditions, chemical hazards, heat stress, and more. These workers face unique health and safety challenges due to their living and working conditions, lack of access to healthcare, and language barriers. The tens of thousands of migrant workers are an integral part of the multi-billion dollar Canadian agricultural industry, providing crucial labour while working in conditions that has been described as “systematic slavery” by workers. In September of 2023, UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, Tomoya Obokata, raised concerns about Canada’s temporary foreign worker programs, stating that they can foster contemporary forms of slavery. Canada’s employer-specific work permits make workers especially vulnerable to exploitation and abuse. Agriculture is one of the most dangerous industries in developed countries. The International Labour Organization (ILO) reports that at least 170,000 agricultural workers worldwide lose their lives annually, with millions more suffering severe injuries or poisoning from agrochemicals. UFCW’s report concludes with urgent recommendations to address the health and safety concerns, including access to collective bargaining, improved housing conditions, reduced pesticide exposure, and more. In addition, the report calls on every level of government – federal, provincial, and municipal – to implement critically needed reforms for migrant workers. For more than three decades, UFCW Canada has led the fight for migrant workers’ rights. To learn more about this advocacy and the reforms that are urgently needed, see UFCW Canada's report: The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada, 2023. Y1 - 2024/// UR - https://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33571:urgent-reforms-needed-for-migrant-agricultural-workers-says-ufcw-canada-in-new-report&catid=10389&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2024-02-01 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Jamaican workers expelled from Ontario farm after protesting poor conditions: advocates CY - Canada PB - CBC Radio N2 - The Canadian and Jamaican governments are investigating allegations that an Ontario farm sent a group of Jamaican migrant workers home after they held a one-day strike to protest what they described as substandard living conditions. Y1 - 2023/08/25/ UR - https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/jamaican-farm-workers-sent-home-1.6947997 Y2 - 2023-09-05 JA - CBC Radio ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Debt, Migration and Exploitation: The Seasonal Worker Visa and the Degradation of Working Conditions in UK Horticulture CY - United Kingdom PB - Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) N2 - A new report from the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) shines a light on the systemic drivers of exploitation in the UK immigration system with regard to seasonal fruit and veg pickers. The report ‘Debt, Migration and Exploitation: The Seasonal Worker Visa and the Degradation of Working Conditions in UK Horticulture’ has been written in collaboration with the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, New Economics Foundation, Focus on Labour Exploitation, Sustain and a farmer solidarity network of former migrant seasonal workers. Seasonal work plays a significant role in UK agriculture. The government estimates that between 50,000 and 60,000 seasonal workers are needed annually to bring in the wider harvest across the UK, and these workers are almost entirely recruited from outside the UK. The latest report from LWA adds to this mounting body of evidence, and lays bare the legal and economic structures that facilitate the exploitation of farmworkers by the industrial food system, giving a platform for farmworkers to share their own account of life on the UK’s farms and develop solutions to the abuses they have faced. The report also includes a supply chain analysis carried out by the New Economics Foundation, which reveals that migrant seasonal workers picking soft fruit retain on average just 7.6% of the total retail price of the produce. Furthermore, the report outlines how workers who have to pay illegal broker fees (money paid by migrant workers to recruitment agencies in their home countries) can result in negative earnings. This means that after accommodation, subsistence and travel costs, some workers are essentially left out of pocket and end up paying more to come to the UK and work, than they keep as retained income to take home. Another chapter in the report features an extended testimony from a former migrant seasonal worker from Nepal, in which they describe the exploitation of recruitment agencies, the debt associated with taking out loans to pay for agency fees and the need for the UK Government to design a more safe and secure seasonal visa scheme. In response to issues raised in previous chapters relating to the supply chain, workers’ rights violations, and lack of redress, the final section of the report explores alternative approaches to labour rights, based on worker-led social responsibility (WSR), using the experience of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and Fair Food Program (FFP) in Florida as a case study. Y1 - 2023/// UR - https://viacampesina.org/en/the-landworkers-alliance-seasonal-worker-visa-and-the-degradation-of-working-conditions-in-uk-horticulture/ Y2 - 2024-02-06 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Un premier travailleur agricole mexicain fait reconnaître son cancer lié aux pesticides PB - Le Devoir N2 - De 2012 à 2016, Armando Lazo Bautista pulvérisait des pesticides sur des pommiers et des plants de bleuets à Franklin, en Montérégie, en jeans et en t-shirt, sans masque ni vêtements ou lunettes de protection, et parfois à bord d’un tracteur. Le Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT) vient de reconnaître que son lymphome non hodgkinien est une lésion professionnelle liée à son exposition à des pesticides, une première, selon son employeur et son représentant légal. A1 - Champagne, Sarah R. Y1 - 2022/// UR - https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/sante/676284/travail-un-premier-travailleur-agricole-mexicain-fait-reconnaitre-son-cancer-lie-aux-pesticides?utm_source=infolettre-2022-02-18&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=infolettre-quotidienne Y2 - 2022-02-22 JA - Le Devoir ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Assessment of the risks of human trafficking for forced labour on the UK Seasonal Workers Pilot. CY - London PB - Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX), N2 - This report presents the findings of research conducted by Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) and Fife Migrants Forum (FMF) between March 2020 and February 2021. This research was initiated in order to seek to understand the risk of human trafficking for forced labour for people coming to Scotland on the Seasonal Workers Pilot (SWP) in the horticultural sector. A two-year SWP was announced by the UK government in 2018 in response to concerns raised by farmers about possible labour shortages in advance of and after the UK had left the European Union (EU). During the development and launch of the SWP the UK government did not engage in meaningful discussion with worker representatives on the scheme, despite serious concerns raised by experts on human trafficking and modern slavery. This report responds directly to these concerns, seeking to document the voices and experiences of the people who have come to Scotland on the SWP. In so doing it seeks to develop strategies that can be taken by the UK and Scottish governments to tackle the risks of human trafficking for forced labour on the SWP and to protect current and future workers. A1 - Robinson, Caroline Y1 - 2021/// UR - https://www.labourexploitation.org/publications/assessment-risks-human-trafficking-forced-labour-uk-seasonal-workers-pilot Y2 - 2022-04-11 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - 'I see my children as strangers': The painful choice of Canada's temporary foreign workers A1 - CBC News ,  Y1 - 2018/03/11/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/estrangement-1.4548852/i-see-my-children-as-strangers-the-painful-choice-of-canada-s-temporary-foreign-workers-1.4548925 Y2 - 2018-03-12 JA - CBC News ER - TY - NEWS T1 - IL N’Y A PERSONNE À QUI PARLER Y1 - 2018/// UR - http://www.ledevoir.com/documents/special/17-12_guatemala/guatemala-travailleurs-ferme-charbonneau.html Y2 - 2018-01-16 JA - Le Devoir ER - TY - RPRT T1 - La néo-féodalisation du droit du travail agricole: Étude de cas sur les conditions de travail et de vie des travailleurs migrants à Saint-Rémi (Québec) PB - GIREPS A1 - Gallié, Martin A1 - Ollivier Gobeil, Jeanne A1 - Brodeur, Caroline Y1 - 2017/09/14/ UR - http://www.gireps.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Rapport_DroitTravail_Online.pdf Y2 - 2017-09-14 ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Protesters rally after talk of an anti-loitering bylaw in downtown Leamington A1 - CBC news Windsor,  Y1 - 2017/09/11/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/windsor/protestors-anti-loitering-bylaw-downtown-leamington-1.4283409 Y2 - 2017-10-01 JA - CBC news Windsor ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Mexican farm worker says he was told heart attack symptoms caused by 'too much chili' A1 - Brend, Yvette Y1 - 2017/08/26/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/migrant-worker-mexican-farm-labour-heart-damage-cranberry-richmond-bc-1.4261565 Y2 - 2017-09-14 JA - CBC News British Columbia ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Slavery claims as seasonal workers from Vanuatu paid nothing for months' work A1 - McKenzie, Nick Y1 - 2017/// UR - http://www.theage.com.au/national/investigations/slavery-claims-as-seasonal-workers-from-vanuatu-paid-nothing-for-months-work-20170327-gv7k99.html Y2 - 2017-05-01 JA - The Age ER - TY - NEWS T1 - This sexually abused migrant worker is now safe — but she knows others aren't N2 - Mere weeks after she came to Canada, the migrant worker was threatened with deportation. A1 - Mojtehedzadeh, Sara Y1 - 2017/// UR - https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/migrants/2017/10/07/this-sexually-abused-migrant-worker-is-now-safe-but-she-knows-others-arent.html Y2 - 2018-02-04 JA - The Toronto Star ER - TY - THES T1 - Up-rooted lives, deep-rooted memories: Stress and resilience among Jamaican agricultural workers in Southern Ontario CY - Hamilton, Ontario PB - McMaster University N2 - The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) is a transnational labour agreement between Canada, Mexico, and various Caribbean countries that brings thousands of Jamaican migrant workers to Canada each year to work on farms. This thesis explores Jamaican SAWP workers’ experiences of stress in Ontario, and situates these experiences within a system of power and international inequality. When describing their experiences of stress and suffering in Ontario, many Jamaican workers drew analogies between historic and modern slavery under the SAWP. However, stress discourses also inspired workers to emphasise their resilience, and many workers gave equal attention to explaining their inherent strength as “Jamaicans”, which they associate with national independence and the history of slavery. In this way, I suggest stress discourses are sites of flexibility and resilience for Jamaican workers, and this thesis presents the foremost cultural, political, and historical factors that support Jamaican workers’ resilience in Ontario. Moreover, the predominant coping strategies workers employ in Ontario will be explored within the context of their restricted agency under the SAWP. This thesis concludes with a discussion of stress as an expression of subjectivity that is characterised by strength, faith, and the history of slavery. A1 - Mayell, Stephanie Y1 - 2016/// VL - Masters T2 - Anthropology SP - 107 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Ferme agricole: traités comme des «esclaves» à Drummondville PB - La presse A1 - Duchaine, Gabrielle Y1 - 2016/05/16/ UR - http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-affaires-criminelles/201605/16/01-4982026-ferme-agricole-traites-comme-des-esclaves-a-drummondville.php Y2 - 2016-05-27 JA - La presse ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - La commission des relations de travail confirme l’accréditation de l’unité agricole de la section locale 1518 des TUAC chez Floralia A1 - UFCW/TUAC Canada,  Y1 - 2016/03/10/ UR - http://www.tuac.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30983:la-commission-des-relations-de-travail-confirme-l-accreditation-de-l-unite-agricole-de-la-section-locale-1518-des-tuac-chez-floralia&catid=9720&Itemid=6&lang=fr Y2 - 2016-03-15 ER - TY - MGZN T1 - À la mode de chez nous IS - 3 N2 - La culture culinaire Québécoise raisonnée A Québec culinary journal with a section on taboos. This edition mentions Migrant Workers. A1 - Leduc, Véronic Y1 - 2015/// JA - Caribou SP - 40 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada - 2015 - UFCW/AWA PB - UFCW, AWA N2 - UFCW Canada is Canada’s leading private sector union. We count 1.4 million members internationally and more than 250,000 members in Canada. Our members work throughout the food industry—from the farm to the table. For this report we have drawn on the expertise of our staff across the country, academic research, and the experiences of the more than 13,000 migrant agriculture members of the AWA, which is today North America’s largest agriculture workers organization. We are using this opportunity to address long-standing issues and recent developments, while pushing reform that would result in fairer treatment of migrant agriculture workers. A1 - UFCW Canada,  A1 - AWA/ATA,  Y1 - 2015/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/directions15/october/1586/MigrantWorkersReport2015_EN_email.pdf Y2 - 2015-10-30 ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Temporary foreign workers and supporters denounce poor treatment on Quebec farms A1 - CBC News ,  Y1 - 2015/08/23/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/temporary-foreign-workers-and-supporters-denounce-poor-treatment-on-quebec-farms-1.3200897http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/temporary-foreign-workers-and-supporters-denounce-poor-treatment-on-quebec-farms-1.3200897 Y2 - 2015-08-30 JA - CBC News Montreal ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - La mort d'un travailleur mexicain aurait pu être évitée, selon la CSST A1 - Dubreuil, Émilie Y1 - 2015/04/07/ UR - http://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/societe/2015/04/07/005-conclusion-csst-mort-travailleur-mexicain.shtml Y2 - 2015-04-15 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Position Statement – Discrimination on the basis of sex in recruitment for the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program CY - Ontario PB - Ontario Human Rights Commission A1 - Ontario Human Rights Commission,  Y1 - 2014/12/14/ UR - http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/news_centre/position-statement-%E2%80%93-discrimination-basis-sex-recruitment-seasonal-agricultural-workers-program Y2 - 2015-01-07 T3 - Position Statement ER - TY - RPRT T1 - UFCW Canada prompts Human Rights Commission warning to Ottawa over gender discrimination in its SAWP recruitment A1 - UFCW/TUAC Canada,  Y1 - 2014/12/12/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30379:ufcw-canada-prompts-human-rights-commission-warning-to-ottawa-over-gender-discrimination-in-its-sawp-recruitment&catid=9577:directions-14-98&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2014-12-14 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Bitter Harvest: Exploitation and Forced Labour of Migrant Agricultural Workers in South Korea IS - ASA 25/004/2014 CY - London, UK PB - Amnesty International, International Secretariat N2 - As of 2013, around 250,000 migrant workers were employed in the Republic of Korea (South Korea) under the Employment Permit System (EPS). Since the establishment of the EPS ten years ago, Amnesty International has repeatedly raised concerns on how this work scheme directly contributes to human and labour rights violations by severely restricting migrant workers’ ability to change jobs and challenge abusive practices by employers. Similar concerns have also been raised by a number of UN bodies,2 but the South Korean government has consistently failed to implement their recommendations. As a consequence, a significant number of migrant workers continue to be regularly exposed to serious exploitation, which includes excessive working hours, unpaid overtime, denial of rest days and breaks, threats, violence, trafficking and forced labour Following Amnesty International’s previous research on the EPS in 2006 and 2009,3 this report focuses on migrant agricultural workers, who account for some 8% of all EPS workers.4 Agriculture is one of the sectors with the least legal safeguards and, consequently, migrant workers in this sector are at greater risk of exploitation and abuse. A1 - Amnesty International, International Secretariat,  Y1 - 2014/// KW - Underpayment KW - Late payment KW - Denial of Leave KW - Excessive hours UR - http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA25/004/2014/en/5e1c9341-d0ec-43c3-b858-68ad69bc6d52/asa250042014en.pdf Y2 - 2014-11-10 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Día de la Independencia de Guatemala: Nada que celebrar para los Trabajadores Agrícolas N2 - Continuamos marginalizados, explotados y excluidos a través del Programa de Trabajadores Agrícolas Temporales. A1 - Centro de trabajadoras y trabajadores imigrantes (CTI),  Y1 - 2014/09/15/ KW - Exploitation KW - Projet de loi 8 UR - http://iwc-cti.org/es/dia-de-la-independencia-de-guatemala-nada-que-celebrar-para-los-trabajadores-agricolas/ Y2 - 2014-09-16 JA - Centro de trabajadoras y trabajadores imigrantes ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Guatemalan Independence Day: Nothing to Celebrate for Agricultural Workers N2 - We continue marginalized, exploited, and excluded through Quebec’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) A1 - Centre des travailleurs et travailleuses immigrants (CTI) ,  A1 - Centro de trabajadoras y trabajadores imigrantes (CTI),  Y1 - 2014/09/15/ KW - Projet de loi 8 KW - travailleurs agricoles UR - http://filsdepressemtl.info/en/guatemalan-independence-day-nothing-to-celebrate-for-agricultural-workers/ Y2 - 2014-09-16 JA - Montreal Newswire ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Guatemalan chicken catcher in Quebec alleges abusive work practices N2 - Temporary foreign worker Mario Rodolfo Garcia complains about work conditions at Service Avicole JGL. A1 - Lindeman, Tracey A1 - Noël, Brigitte Y1 - 2014/07/29/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/guatemalan-chicken-catcher-in-quebec-alleges-abusive-work-practices-1.2716985 Y2 - 2014-07-29 JA - CBCNews ER - TY - GEN T1 - Blacklisting Migrant Workers CY - The Dominion PB - The Dominion N2 - Guatemalans speaking out against abuse expelled from temporary foreign worker program A1 - Croft, Valérie Y1 - 2014/05/09/ UR - http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/story/blacklisting-migrant-workers/22378 Y2 - 2014-05-09 ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - The Next Chapter for Ontario Agriculture Workers A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2014/// KW - Systemic Problem ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Blacklist verdict rocks B.C. legislature PB - UFCW A1 - UFCWCanada,  A1 - UFCW/TUAC Canada,  Y1 - 2014/03/31/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3948:blacklist-verdict-rocks-bc-legislature&catid=519&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2014-04-14 T3 - UFCW Press releases ER - TY - NEWS T1 - México declarado culpable de interferencia antisindical en Canadá N2 - El tribunal laboral de Columbia Británica dictamina que México creó listas negras de trabajadores migrantes mexicanos en Canadá. (Ciudad Capital, see document attached) A1 - UFCWCanada,  A1 - Newswire,  A1 - Ciudad Capital,  Y1 - 2014/03/21/ UR - http://www.ciudadcapital.com.mx/archives/67565 UR - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mexico-declarado-culpable-de-interferencia-antisindical-en-canada-251590021.html Y2 - 2014-03-25 JA - Ciudad Capital, Newswire ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Mexico found guilty of blacklisting Mexican migrant workers in Canada suspected of being pro-union PB - UFCW A1 - UFCWCanada,  Y1 - 2014/03/21/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3938:mexico-found-guilty-of-blacklisting-mexican-migrant-workers-in-canada-suspected-of-being-pro-union&catid=517:directions-14-23&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2014-04-01 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - As Temp Workers Flow from Jamaica, Scammers Swoop N2 - Illegal fees, empty promises. Caribbean victims speak as Tyee reader-funded series continues. A1 - Nuttall, Jeremy J. Y1 - 2014/01/22/ UR - http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/01/22/Scammers-Swoop/ Y2 - 2014-02-07 JA - The Tyee ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Evidence pointing to Mexico blacklisting migrant workers in Canada stands, says BC Supreme Court/ Les éléments de preuve indiquant que le Mexique a dressé une liste noire de travailleurs migrants au Canada sont recevables, selon la Cour suprême de la C.-B. PB - UFCW A1 - UFCWCanada,  Y1 - 2014/01/17/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3828%3Aevidence-pointing-to-mexico-blacklisting-migrant-workers-in-canada-stands-says-bc-supreme-court&catid=6%3Adirections-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2014-01-21 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - OPP faces racial profiling complaint from migrant workers asked for DNA samples PB - thestar.com N2 - Advocacy group says foreign farm workers approached in a sex assault investigation had only dark skin colour in common. A1 - Keung, Nicholas Y1 - 2013/12/12/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2013/12/12/opp_faces_racial_profiling_complaint_from_migrant_workers_asked_for_dna_samples.html Y2 - 2013-12-17 JA - The Toronto Star ER - TY - CASE T1 - Decision No. 1559/13, [2013] O.W.S.I.A.T.D. No. 2371. A2 - [2013] O.W.S.I.A.T.D. No. 2371. Y1 - 2013/11/13/ J2 - 2013 ONWSIAT 2408. ER - TY - CASE T1 - Tobar-Pinto et Verger Caron enr. 2013 QCCLP 6184 A2 - 2013 QCCLP 6184 PB - Commission des Lésions Professionnelles A1 - Commission des lésions professionnelles,  Y1 - 2013/10/22/ UR - http://canlii.ca/t/g1nch Y2 - 2015-09-12 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Agences de placement : prudence! N2 - « Les producteurs devraient redoubler de prudence lorsqu’ils font affaire avec une agence de placement pour faire effectuer des travaux à forfait en sous-traitance. » A1 - Laprade, Yvon Y1 - 2013/// UR - http://www.laterre.ca/cultures/agences-de-placement-prudence/ Y2 - 2013-10-09 JA - La Terre de chez Nous ER - TY - THES T1 - Embodying and resisting labour apartheid: Racism and Mexican farm workers in Canada's seasonal agricultural workers program CY - Vancouver PB - University of British columbia N2 - The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) is presented as a migrant labour regime that functions as labour apartheid system discipline and control, which is in place to satisfy the needs of capitalist development in the Canadian agricultural industry... parallels are made with the treatment of Black migrant workers under South African apartheid with the differential treatment to which migrant farm workers are subjected under the SAWP. A1 - Paz Ramirez, Adriana Y1 - 2013/// UR - https://circle.ubc.ca/bitstream/handle/2429/45530/ubc_2014_spring_pazramirez_adriana.pdf Y2 - 2015-10-07 VL - Master's of Arts T2 - sociology SP - 102 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful N2 - Health professionals demand that Ontario provide access to full health coverage to workers and families for injuries sustained and lives lost. Demonstrators protest at a human rights tribunal looking into a discrimination case against the province's coroner's office for declining to hold an inquest into the death of a migrant farm worker Ned Livingston Peart in 2002. (June 28, 2013) A1 - Rai , Nanky A1 - Deutsch, Jim A1 - Majeed, Abeer A1 - Bailey, Brendan A1 - Garfinkle, Miriam Y1 - 2013/09/18/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2013/09/18/denying_health_coverage_to_injured_migrant_workers_is_shameful.html Y2 - 2013-09-19 JA - The Toronto Star ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Temporarily Unchained: The Drive to Unionize Foreign Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Canada – A Comment on Greenway Farms and ufcw IS - Spring 2011 A1 - Russo, Robert Y1 - 2013/// JA - BC Studies, VL - no. 169 SP - 131 M2 - 131 SP - 131-141 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Province challenges OHIP coverage to injured migrant workers N2 - An independent tribunal decided two Jamaican farm workers seriously injured in a car crash should continue to be covered after their contracts ended. A1 - Keung, Nicholas Y1 - 2013/09/06/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2013/09/06/province_challenges_ohip_coverage_to_injured_migrant_workers.html# Y2 - 2013-09-09 JA - Toronto Star ER - TY - CASE T1 - D.C. and K.W. v The General Manager The Ontario health Insurance Plan A2 - 2013 CanLII 51688 PB - Health Services Appeal and Review Board A1 - Health Services Appeal and Review Board,  Y1 - 2013/08/29/ ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Human Rights Tribunal fines farm $23,500 for calling migrant workers ‘monkeys’ PB - The Toronto Star A1 - Keung, Nicholas Y1 - 2013/07/29/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/news/immigration/2013/07/29/human_rights_tribunal_fines_farm_23500_for_calling_migrant_workers_monkeys.bb.html Y2 - 2013-07-31 JA - The Star.com ER - TY - ADVS T1 - Rape in the Fields PB - PBS N2 - FRONTLINE and Univision partner to tell the story of the hidden price many migrant women working in America’s fields and packing plants pay to stay employed and provide for their families. This investigation is the result of a yearlong reporting effort by veteran FRONTLINE correspondent Lowell Bergman, the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley, and the Center for Investigative Reporting. Lowell Bergman investigates the hidden reality of rape on the job for immigrant women. Duration: (53:41) Premiere Date: 06/25/2013 Episode Expires: Never TV Rating: NR Closed Caption A1 - Bergman, Lowell A1 - PBS,  Y1 - 2013/// UR - http://video.pbs.org/video/2365031455 Y2 - 2013-07-23 ER - TY - CASE T1 - Monrose v. Double Diamond Acres Limited A2 - David Muir Y1 - 2013/07/23/ NV - 2013 HRTO 1273 J2 - 2010-05922-I ER - TY - ADVS T1 - Migrant workers protest for inquest into worker’s death PB - CHCH N2 - Supporters of migrant farm workers in Ontario, and across Canada, are hoping to make history. They’re hoping to force a coroner to call an inquest into the death of a farm worker, and other migrants killed after coming to Canada to produce food. Al Sweeney has the story. A1 - Bagnoli, Melissa Y1 - 2013/06/28/ UR - http://www.chch.com/migrant-workers-protest-for-inquest-into-workers-death/ Y2 - 2013-07-16 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Temporary foreign worker bust made in Kingsville N2 - Canadian Border Services Agency arrested 6 six undocumented foreign workers. A1 - CBC,  Y1 - 2013/05/16/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/05/16/wdr-temporary-foreign-worker-bust-kingsville-cbsa.html Y2 - 2013-05-30 JA - CBC News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - La commission des relations de travail de la C.-B. rejette une tentative de supprimer certaines preuves d’exclusion / B.C. Labour Board denies attempt to suppress Blacklisting evidence PB - TUAC A1 - UFCW/TUAC Canada,  Y1 - 2013/03/16/ UR - http://www.tuac.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3323:bc-labour-board-denies-attempt-to-suppress-blacklisting-evidence-&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=fr Y2 - 2013-03-28 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Du Guatemala ou du Mexique à l’Abitibi N2 - Bien qu’attrayante, l’embauche de travailleurs étrangers est un processus complexe pour celui qui veut s’y aventurer. A1 - Murthy, Naveen Y1 - 2013/02/22/ UR - http://www.lechoabitibien.ca/2013/02/22/du-guatemala-ou-du-mexique-a-labitibi Y2 - 2013-04-17 JA - L'Écho Abitibien ER - TY - CASE T1 - Fermes Sunchef inc. et Morena Quintanilla A2 - Fermes Sunchef inc. et Morena Quintanilla, 2012 QCCLP 1195 PB - Commission des Lésions Professionnelles A1 - Commission des lésions professionnelles,  A1 - Commission des lésions professionnelles,  Y1 - 2013/01/07/ UR - http://canlii.ca/t/fvl5j UR - http://canlii.ca/t/fq725 Y2 - 2015-01-22 J2 - Fermes Sunchef inc. et Morena Quintanilla, 2013 QCCLP 26. ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Ottawa to announce review of controversial Temporary Foreign Worker program A1 - Oneil, Peter Y1 - 2012/// UR - http://www.canada.com/Ottawa+announce+review+controversial+Temporary+Foreign+Worker+program/7520191/story.html Y2 - 2012-11-14 JA - canada.com ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Temporary workers in Canada 'without rights' A1 - Taylor, Louisa Y1 - 2012/11/06/ UR - http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/Temporary+workers+Canada+without+rights/7501410/story.html Y2 - 2014-03-05 JA - Ottawa Citizen SP - 1 ER - TY - CASE T1 - Decision No. 116/12, [2012] O.W.S.I.A.T.D. No. 2177. A2 - Decision No. 116/12, [2012] O.W.S.I.A.T.D. No. 2177. PB - Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal Y1 - 2012/10/10/ J2 - 2012 ONWSIAT 2220 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - B.C. farm workers treated like 'hostages' CY - British Columbia A1 - CBC News - BC,  Y1 - 2012/10/04/ KW - Abuse KW - temporary migrant workers KW - farm workers KW - employer KW - visa KW - mobility UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-farm-workers-treated-like-hostages-1.1147277?cmp=rss Y2 - 2014-04-16 JA - CBC News ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Un travailleur étranger porté disparu A1 - Monette, Timothy Y1 - 2012/07/31/ UR - http://www.hebdosregionaux.ca/monteregie/2012/07/31/un-travailleur-etranger-porte-disparu Y2 - 2012-08-15 JA - Le Reflet ER - TY - RPRT T1 - UFCW Canada/ AWA Victory for Guatemalan Migrant Workers in Quebec! A1 - UFCW/TUAC Canada,  A1 - AWA/ATA,  Y1 - 2012/07/26/ T3 - AWA/ATA E-News ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Lightning strike slays lettuce harvester, 64, in St. Rémi A1 - Ravensbergen, Jan Y1 - 2012/07/18/ JA - The Gazette ER - TY - GEN T1 - Travailleur migrant violemment interpellé durant la messe pour les travailleurs agricoles A1 - Centre des travailleurs immigrants,  Y1 - 2012/07/17/ UR - http://iwc-cti.ca/archives/migrant-worker-violently-accosted-at-agricultural-workers-mass-at-st-josephs-oratory/?lang=fr Y2 - 2012-07-20 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Enquête sur de présumés échanges irréguliers de travailleurs étrangers PB - Radio Canada N2 - Service Canada enquête actuellement sur deux entreprises qui se seraient échangé des travailleurs étrangers sans permis, a appris Radio-Canada. A1 - Radio-Canada.ca,  Y1 - 2012/07/12/ UR - http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/Economie/2012/07/10/011-entreprises-gagne-lemay-immigrants.shtml UR - http://www.radio-canada.ca/widgets/mediaconsole/medianet/5968730 Y2 - 2012-07-13 JA - Radio Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Update: Major victory in the case of Hermelindo Gutierrez N1 - Hermelindo Gutierrez is a migrant farm worker from Mexico who fell ill with kidney failure while working in Canada as part of the SAWP and faced deportation due to his condition. He seekeed refugee status in Canada because deportation would have meant that he would not be able to afford treatment and medication to keep him alive. After years of waiting and living in limbo, Hermelindo and his family were successful in the first stage of their application for humanitarian and compassionate stay in Canada. Furthermore, his daughter Sayuri will start her studies in psychology at Brock University, which is a major victory. PB - J4MW A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/07/05/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/26605172874 Y2 - 2012-07-06 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Hermelindo and his family were successful in the first stage of their application for humanitarian and compassionate stay in Canada A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/07/05/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/26605172874/update-major-victory-in-the-case-of-hermelindo Y2 - 2012-07-14 T3 - J4MW Press releases ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Migrant Worker Community celebrates announcement that injured migrant will receive medical surgery A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/07/04/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/26510750046/migrant-worker-community-celebrates-announcement-that Y2 - 2012-07-14 T3 - J4MW Press releases ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Urgent – Community Appeal Injured Migrant Worker in Need of... PB - J4MW A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/06/18/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/25417349393 Y2 - 2012-06-19 ER - TY - ADVS T1 - Message from the worker getting repatriated for the rest of the... PB - J4MW A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/05/31/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/24164084812 Y2 - 2012-06-01 ER - TY - ADVS T1 - [Migrant Voices project] Testimony of Noé Arteaga Santos on the treatment of migrant workers in the Québec agro-food industry CY - Montréal PB - IWC/CTI A1 - Immigrant worker center/Centre des travailleurs immigrants - MTL,  Y1 - 2012/05/15/ UR - http://iwc-cti.ca/migrant-voices-iwc-radio/ Y2 - 2012-07-14 ER - TY - ADVS T1 - The Bigger Picture - Disposable labour PB - GlobalNews N2 - Thousands of foreign workers come here each year for low paid, low skill jobs that most Canadians don’t want – and they’re happy to get them. But as 16x9 discovered – many of those workers say they’ve been ripped off and exploited. Read it on Global News: Disposable labour - 16x9 - Videos | Global News A1 - GlobalNews,  Y1 - 2012/05/01/ UR - http://www.globalnews.ca/video/disposable+labour/video.html?v=2228323126#video UR - http://www.globalnews.ca/video/index.html?v=w9utwyzJOBfy4KM4sZY1CnxrgQqbychN#video Y2 - 2012-05-15 ER - TY - PAMP T1 - Travailleurs migrants au Canada: Main-d'oeuvre bon marché facilement abusée PB - Conseil Canadien pour les réfugiés N2 - Frais de recrutement exorbitants, heures supplémentaires imposées et non rémunérées, conditions de travail dangereuses, piètres conditions de vie... Ce ne sont là que quelques exemples des nombreux abus subis par des travailleurs migrants au Canada. Ce document de quatre pages peut être utilisé aux fins de sensibilisation et éducation publique A1 - Conseil canadien pour les réfugiés,  Y1 - 2012/04/01/ UR - http://ccrweb.ca/files/travailleursmigrants4pages.pdf Y2 - 2012-04-14 ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Human trafficking affects foreign workers A1 - Thompson, Suzy Y1 - 2012/03/29/ UR - http://www.ffwdweekly.com/article/news-views/news/human-trafficking-affects-foreign-workers-8937/ Y2 - 2012-04-30 JA - Fast Forward Weekly In a report released on March 23, ER - TY - RPRT T1 - B.C. Supreme Court Asked To Muzzle BC Labour Board Regarding Mexico Blacklisting Evidence A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2012/03/26/ T3 - UFCW Canada Human Rights Department Release ER - TY - NEWS T1 - The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Labour and Social Planning ordered a Mexican Consulate in Canada to conduct an anti-union campaign PB - La Jornada A1 - La Jornada,  Y1 - 2012/03/19/ JA - La Jornada ER - TY - NEWS T1 - L'exploitation tranquille des travailleurs étrangers CY - Montréal A1 - Nicoud, Anabelle Y1 - 2012/03/17/ KW - Exploitation KW - travailleurs étrangers KW - conditions de travail KW - conditions de vie KW - abus KW - papiers KW - crainte UR - http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201203/18/01-4506682-lexploitation-tranquille-des-travailleurs-etrangers.php Y2 - 2014-04-03 JA - La Presse SP - 6 ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - BC Hearings Start into Blacklisting of Mexican Migrant Workers A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2012/02/29/ UR - http://ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2667%3Abc-hearings-start-into-blacklisting-of-mexican-migrant-workers&catid=6%3Adirections-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2012-03-01 JA - A UFCW Canada Human Rights Department Release ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Migrant workers face systemic discrimination, Que. rights commission says A1 - White, Marianna Y1 - 2012/02/21/ UR - http://migrantscanada.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/migrant-workers-face-systemic-discrimination-que-rights-commission-says/ UR - http://migrantscanada.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/migrant-workers-face-systemic-discrimination-que-rights-commission-says/ Y2 - 2012-02-22 JA - Postmedia News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Québec doit modifier sa loi et ses programmes en matière d’immigration pour mettre fin à la discrimination systémique des travailleuses et travailleurs migrants N2 - La Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse demande au gouvernement du Québec de réviser sa législation et ses programmes en matière d’immigration pour mettre fin à la discrimination systémique dont sont victimes les travailleurs migrants. Dans un avis rendu public aujourd’hui, la Commission conclut que les aides familiales résidantes, les travailleurs agricoles saisonniers et les autres travailleurs étrangers temporaires peu spécialisés sont victimes de discrimination systémique en raison de leur origine ethnique ou nationale, de leur race, de leur condition sociale, de leur langue et, dans le cas des aides familiales résidantes, de leur sexe. « Notre avis expose clairement la situation de grande vulnérabilité dans laquelle se trouvent ces travailleurs migrants », a précisé le président de la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse, monsieur Gaétan Cousineau. « Ce sont pourtant des personnes qui bénéficient de la protection de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne au même titre que les résidents permanents ou les citoyens. Elles font partie du tissu social et contribuent à la vie économique du Québec. » En 2010, le Québec a accueilli près de 7 000 travailleurs migrants peu spécialisés, dont la plupart étaient originaires du Guatemala, du Mexique et des Antilles qui ont été employés principalement dans le secteur agricole. De ce nombre, environ 400 aides familiales résidantes, en majorité originaires des Philippines, travaillaient dans des familles québécoises comme gardiennes d’enfant ou aides domestiques. La Commission est d’avis que la vulnérabilité dans laquelle se retrouvent ces travailleurs migrants exerce une pression à la baisse sur les conditions de travail de l’ensemble des travailleurs qui œuvrent dans ces secteurs. D’ailleurs, en l’absence de travailleurs migrants, bien des employeurs québécois seraient obligés d’améliorer les conditions de travail insatisfaisantes dans ces domaines d’emploi. Le gouvernement du Québec devrait viser la création d’un programme d’immigration permanente plutôt que temporaire et ainsi limiter le recours aux travailleurs migrants, selon la Commission. De même, cette dernière demande au ministère de l’Immigration et des Communautés culturelles de n’accepter que des travailleurs disposant d’un permis de travail sectoriel et d’interdire l’obligation de résider chez l’employeur. Cette obligation peut compromettre plusieurs droits protégés par la Charte, dont le droit à la vie privée et l’inviolabilité de la demeure. La constante disponibilité physique des aides familiales résidantes rend également difficile la distinction entre leur vie privée et leur vie professionnelle, ce qui peut compliquer, entre autres, le calcul du temps supplémentaire. .../2 Présentement, en raison de leur statut d’immigration, les travailleurs migrants doivent détenir un permis de travail limité à un seul emploi et à un seul employeur qui les contraint aussi à demeurer chez leur employeur. Cela restreint, non seulement leur liberté d’établissement et leur accès au programme de regroupement familial, mais porte également atteinte à leur droit à la liberté et leur droit à des conditions de travail justes et raisonnables qui respectent leur santé, leur sécurité et leur intégrité physique. En outre, comme les travailleurs migrants ont de la difficulté à établir leur résidence, ils sont exclus des programmes de protection sociale et n’ont pas droit, notamment, à l’aide juridique, à l’aide sociale, à l’instruction publique (à la discrétion des commissions scolaires) et aux programmes de soutien à l’intégration des immigrants, y compris les cours de francisation, alors que la majorité de ces travailleurs sont hispanophones ou anglophones. « Une meilleure connaissance du français pourrait pourtant les aider à obtenir des résultats supérieurs dans la grille de sélection des travailleurs indépendants », précise l’avis de la Commission. Par ailleurs, dans certaines circonstances, les travailleurs migrants sont exclus de certaines dispositions du Code de travail, de la Loi sur les normes du travail, de la Loi sur la santé et la sécurité du travail et de la Loi sur les accidents du travail et les maladies professionnelles. Par conséquent, ils n’ont pas droit aux mêmes conditions de travail et salariales que les travailleurs québécois qui font le même travail, particulièrement en ce qui a trait aux heures supplémentaires et aux congés payés. Afin de prévenir les abus, la Commission recommande que le gouvernement du Québec encadre mieux les activités des agences de recrutement des travailleurs migrants et offre une meilleure protection à ces travailleurs qui risquent d’être renvoyés dans leur pays s’ils sont impliqués dans un litige ou s’ils déposent une plainte. Elle recommande donc la mise en place d’un mécanisme de recours en cas de rapatriement par l’employeur, le consulat du pays d’origine ou encore de l’Agence des services frontaliers du Canada, dans le cadre du Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers. Depuis 2005, la Commission est intervenue à de nombreuses reprises en faveur des aides familiales résidantes et des travailleurs agricoles migrants se trouvant au Québec et participe, depuis 2008, aux travaux du Comité interministériel permanent sur la protection des travailleurs étrangers temporaires peu spécialisés. L’avis « La discrimination systémique à l’égard des travailleuses et de travailleurs migrants » est disponible à l’adresse www.cdpdj.qc.ca. Des résumés, en français et en anglais, sont aussi disponibles à la même adresse. -30- Source : Julie Lajoye 514 873-5146 ou 1 800 361-6477 poste 230 Julie.lajoye@cdpdj.qc.ca A1 - CDPDJ,  Y1 - 2012/02/20/ UR - http://www2.cdpdj.qc.ca/publications/Documents/Avis_travailleurs_immigrants.pdf UR - http://www2.cdpdj.qc.ca/publications/Documents/Avis_travailleurs_immigrants_resume.pdf Y2 - 2012-02-22 T3 - Avis juridiques de la CDPDJ ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Quebec must revise its immigration law and programs to put an end to the systemic discrimination of migrant workers A1 - Quebec Human Right Commission,  Y1 - 2012/02/20/ UR - http://www2.cdpdj.qc.ca/Documents/COMM_travailleurs_migrants_En_fev2012.pdf UR - http://www2.cdpdj.qc.ca/publications/Documents/Avis_travailleurs_immigrants_resume.pdf Y2 - 2012-02-23 T3 - CDPDJ Press Releases ER - TY - ADVS T1 - Migrants Death - Feb 17 Community Action in Toronto - Video A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/02/17/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/17773280801 Y2 - 2012-02-18 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Media advisory: Community Rally/Action Around Migrant Worker Deaths A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/02/16/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/17733429086 Y2 - 2012-02-17 T3 - j4MW Press releases ER - TY - RPRT T1 - No More Deaths: Justice and Status for Migrant Workers from No One is Illegal-Toronto A1 - No One is Illegal - Toronto,  Y1 - 2012/02/13/ UR - http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/661 Y2 - 2012-02-14 T3 - NOII-Toronto Press release ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Ontario chief coroner mulls possible inquest A1 - Taylor, Scott Y1 - 2012/02/11/ UR - http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/02/10/19367026.html Y2 - 2012-02-12 JA - The London Free Press ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Peruvian lives on Canada's conscience A1 - Shipley, Tyler Y1 - 2012/02/11/ UR - http://rabble.ca/news/2012/02/peruvian-lives-canadas-conscience Y2 - 2012-02-12 JA - Rabble.ca ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Death of 10 Migrant Workers: Family Day Action to Demand Justice for Migrant Farmworker Deaths A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/02/09/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/17312843708 Y2 - 2012-02-09 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - In far-off Lima, families mourn Ontario crash victims A1 - Dube, Ryan A1 - Morrow, Adrian Y1 - 2012/02/08/ UR - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/in-far-off-lima-families-mourn-ontario-crash-victims/article2331847/ Y2 - 2012-02-28 JA - The Globe and Mail ER - TY - NEWS T1 - HAMPSTEAD Police probe fatigue and distraction in ‘driver error’ crash A1 - Mackrael, Kim A1 - Freeze, Colin Y1 - 2012/02/08/ UR - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/police-probe-fatigue-and-distraction-in-driver-error-crash/article2331822/ Y2 - 2012-02-28 JA - The Globe and Mail ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Farmworker tragedy in Hampstead, ON - J4MW Statement A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2012/02/08/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/17310874485/our-official-statement-about-the-farmworker-tragedy-in Y2 - 2012-02-09 T3 - J4MW Press releases ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Ontario crash sheds light on plight of migrant workers A1 - Mehler Paperny, Anna A1 - Bascaramurty, Dakshana Y1 - 2012/02/07/ UR - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario-crash-sheds-light-on-plight-of-migrant-workers/article2330406/ Y2 - 2012-02-28 JA - The Globe and Mail ER - TY - PAMP T1 - Migrant Workers: Used and Abused CY - Montreal PB - Canadian Council for Refugees N2 - Charged exorbitant recruitment fees, forces to work unpaid overtime, subjected to dangerous working conditions, housed in sub-standard living conditions... these are just some of the abuses endured by migrant workers in Canada. This four-page document can be used for awareness-raising and public education. A1 - Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR),  Y1 - 2012/02/01/ UR - http://ccrweb.ca/en/migrant-workers-used-and-abused Y2 - 2012-04-14 ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - BC Golden Eagle farms abuses: Aquilini fine appeal rejected N1 - In 2006, J4MW BC visited Golden Eagle farms and reported on abuses committed by managers against Mexican farm workers. It would seem that 6 years later Golden Eagle is still not treating their workers right. It is particularly shamefull given that the Aquilini’s are some of the wealthiest people in BC, and with a high public profile that comes from owning the Canucks. Below are the links to the Vancouver Sun article and to the letter of protest written by Mexican migrant farm workers at Golden Eagle Farms in 2006 - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/bc/index.htm#letter A1 - Woo, Andrea Y1 - 2012/01/29/ JA - Vancouver Sun ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Canada Migrant Workers Prone To Abuse, Exploitation Due To Lax Government Oversight: Advocates A1 - Kauri, Vidya Y1 - 2012/01/24/ UR - http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/21/canada-migrant-workers-abuse_n_1210725.html Y2 - 2012-01-25 JA - huffingtonpost.ca ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Mexican migrant workers file Charter lawsuit against Canada's federal government PB - UFCW Canada N2 - Three Mexican migrant agriculture workers have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government and an Ontario agriculture operator for breach of contract and damages, after the workers were repatriated without a hearing or any explanation of why they were terminated. It is the first suit of its kind ever brought by migrant workers invoking their rights under Canada's Charter. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2576:mexican-migrant-workers-file-charter-lawsuit-against-canadas-federal-government&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2011-12-23 T3 - Media & News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Please sign the petition to protect injured workers in Ontario PB - Justice for Migrant Workers N2 - In 2010, the WSIB hired private consultants from KPMG to conduct an audit of its claims processes. Instead of staying within its proper scope and assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of the Board’s work, KPMG told the WSIB to do a widespread review of its policies and legal framework in order to cut benefits to supposedly overcompensated workers. The WSIB has said it will accept KPMG’s recommendations. A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2011/12/07/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/13908884666 Y2 - 2011-12-08 T3 - Justice for Migrant Workers ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Mistreatment of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada: Overcoming Regulatory Barriers and Realities on the Ground CY - Montréal PB - Quebec Metropolis Center A1 - Depatie-Pelletier, Eugénie A1 - Rahi, Khan Y1 - 2011/// ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Des travailleurs migrants mexicains intentent une poursuite fondée sur la Charte contre le gouvernement fédéral canadien PB - UFCW Canada N2 - Trois travailleurs agricoles migrants venant du Mexique ont engagé une poursuite contre le gouvernement canadien et un exploitant agricole de l’Ontario pour rupture de contrat et préjudices, après que les travailleurs eurent été rapatriés sans audience ni explication motivant la cessation d’emploi dont ils ont fait l’objet. C’est la première fois que des travailleurs migrants intentent une poursuite de cette nature en invoquant les droits que leur confère la Charte canadienne. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/11/27/ UR - http://www.tuac.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2576:mexican-migrant-workers-file-charter-lawsuit-against-canadas-federal-government&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=fr Y2 - 2011-12-23 T3 - Media & Nouvelles ER - TY - GEN T1 - Migrant workers sue Ottawa and farm for breaching contract, charter rights N2 - Three Mexican farm workers who claim they were arbitrarily booted from Canada are suing the federal government and an Ontario company in a case that raises questions about the vulnerability of migrant labour. A1 - Solidarity Across Borders Montreal,  Y1 - 2011/11/25/ UR - http://migrantscanada.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/migrant-workers-sue-ottawa-and-farm-for-breaching-contract-charter-rights/ Y2 - 2011-11-26 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Mexican farm workers file suit against Canada N2 - Three Mexican migrant farm workers have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government and their Ontario-based former employer for terminating their contract and sending them home without reason or explanation. A1 - Ligaya, Armina Y1 - 2011/11/24/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/11/24/mexico-farm-lawsuit-government.html Y2 - 2011-12-23 JA - CBC News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - UFCW: migrant workers' rights funeral N2 - As you may have heard, thousands of Mexican and Guatemalan migrant agriculture workers come to work in Canadian fields under the Seasonal Agriculture Workers Program (SAWP). Their contributions to Canada’s economy are tremendous: they work for up to 15 hours a day, 7 days a week. They pay taxes, Employment Insurance, and contribute to the Canadian Pension Plan. Unfortunately, they are not treated with the dignity or respect that we think every worker in Canada receives. When workers face sickness, injuries in the workplace, or abuse from employers, the Mexican or the Guatemalan Consulates rarely defend them. In Vancouver, the Mexican Consulate has given harsh “workshops” to agriculture workers telling them that if they complain about their work conditions, cause trouble to their employers, or speak to anybody other than their employers they will easily lose their jobs. In fact, many workers have lost their jobs or have been blacklisted just because they sought help, got sick, or asked questions about their rights. Migrant workers’ labour rights have died in Canadian fields. This is why for over 20 years the United Food and Commerce Workers (UFCW) and the Agriculture Workers Alliance, (AWA) have been struggling alongside migrant workers to defend their labour rights across Canada. This is why UFCW & the AWA sued the Mexican Consulate of Vancouver at the Labour Board on May 9 of 2011, as its tactics of threatening workers are against Canadian Law. This is why we demonstrated against the blacklisting of workers in front of the Mexican Consulate on October 17, 2011. This is why we are again preparing a new demonstration and hope that you, Canadians of good hearts, lovers of equity and social justice, will join us. We are inviting you to participate in this demonstration, a Migrant Workers’ Rights Funeral, next Monday, November 14, from 12 (noon) to 1 PM. We will join at the entrance of the Mexican Consulate (710-1177 W Hastings Street) where we will demand the Mexican Consulate stops blacklisting workers and respects Canadian laws! For more information call us: 778-578-9411 or send us an e-mail to surrey@awa-ata.ca Please let us know if you can attend and bring your friends. What: demo in support of migrant agriculture workers and against blacklisting by the Mexican Consulate When: Monday, November 14, at 12:00 PM(noon) Where: We will gather at the Mexican Consulate (710-1177 W Hastings Street) from 12 pm (at noon) to 1 PM, carrying a coffin and some crosses “to bury the workers’ rights”. A1 - Solidarity Across Borders Montreal,  Y1 - 2011/11/10/ UR - http://migrantscanada.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/ufcw-migrant-workers-rights-funeral/ Y2 - 2011-11-11 T3 - Solidarity Across Borders Montreal ER - TY - RPRT T1 - UFCW Canada addresses migrants' rights at Mexico workshop N2 - Recently, in the Mexico municipality of Tulcingo de Valle, in the State of Puebla, UFCW Canada shared its advocacy experience of working with migrants in Canada at a "Workshop on Basic Knowledge and Tools on Migration". It was one of series of workshops organized by the Citizens' Observatory on Public Policies Migrant - Puebla. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/10/31/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2546%3Aufcw-canada-addresses-migrants-rights-at-mexico-workshop-&catid=6%3Adirections-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2011-11-11 T3 - UFCW Media and News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - La situation des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada 2010-2011 N2 - Le rapport révèle une connivence de la part du gouvernement fédéral face à l’abus des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada Le rapport annuel le plus complet au Canada sur les difficultés touchant les travailleurs agricoles migrants vient de sortir. Celui-ci confirme que l’abus et l’exploitation des travailleurs agricoles migrants sévit dans l’industrie agricole canadienne. Le rapport intituléLa situation des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada 2010-2011 est publié par les TUAC Canada et l’Alliance des travailleurs agricoles (ATA). Depuis plus de deux décennies, les TUAC Canada se font l’un des plus ardents défenseurs des droits des travailleurs agricoles et exploitent 10 centres de soutien pour travailleurs agricoles au Canada en association avec l’ATA. Ce dernier rapport constitue le septième publié depuis 2003. Le rapport de 25 pages révèle que les programmes de main-d’oeuvre agricole migrante gérés par le gouvernement fédéral abondent en violations de droits de la personne et du travail — de plus, ces programmes connaissent une expansion grâce à l’aide du gouvernement conservateur de Stephen Harper. En 2010, plus de 40 000 travailleurs migrants ont travaillé sans répit dans l’industrie agricole canadienne. S’ils soulèvent une préoccupation quelconque concernant leur lieu de travail, leur sécurité ou leur hébergement, les travailleurs migrants se voient typiquement retourner à leur pays d’origine et figurer sur la liste noire les empêchant à tout jamais de revenir au Canada. « La fondation du système d’approvisionnement alimentaire du Canada ne devrait pas reposer sur le déni des droits de la personne », estime le président des TUAC Canada et de l’ATA Wayne Hanley. « Cependant, comme l’explique en détail le rapport, c’est exactement ce qui arrive aux travailleurs agricoles migrants. Pire encore, cela se produit avec la bénédiction du gouvernement fédéral qui ferme les yeux sur les dangers et l’abus que les migrants doivent accepter s’ils veulent garder leur emploi. » Le rapport de 2010-2011 s’appuie sur des témoignages, des sondages et d’autres intervention de personnel de première ligne recueillis aux dix centres de soutien pour travailleurs agricoles exploités par l’ATA dans l’ensemble du Canada. L’an dernier seulement, les centres ont traité plus de 35 000 demandes d’aide et d’intervention de l’ATA. Les TUAC Canada constituent le plus grand syndicat du secteur privé au pays et représentent quelque 250 000membres d’un bout à l’autre du Canada oeuvrant principalement dans les secteurs de la fabrication et transformation alimentaire, et de la vente au détail — y compris des travailleurs agricoles migrants et locaux à divers établissements au Québec et en Colombie-Britannique. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/// UR - http://www.tuac.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2244:2010-2011-migrant-farm-workers-report-published&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=fr Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UCW La situation des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Condiciones de los Trabajatores Agricolas Migrantes en Canada 2010-2011 N2 - En el día de Acción de Gracias del 2010, más de doscientos trabajadores agrícolas migrantes se reunieron para cenar en el sótano de una iglesia en Leamington, Ontario, a miles de millas lejos de sus propias familias. Se reunieron por la compañía, para compartir una comida y sus historias acerca de una vida que los separa de sus esposas e hijos por más de medio año. Este es un breve y poco frecuente descanso del arduo y peligroso trabajo que ellos realizan bajo un sistema que los hace a ellos y a miles de otros trabajadores migrantes en todo el país, completamente subyugados a sus empleadores de las granjas canadienses. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/publications/UFCW-Status_of_MF_Workers_2010-2011_SP.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UCW Condiciones de los Trabajatores Agricolas Migrantes en Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada 2006-2007 N2 - UFCW Canada (The United Food and Commercial Workers Union) has played a focal and active role in assisting and advocating for agricultural workers in Canada since the early 1990s. This sixth national report provides current information on the status of the migrant agricultural workers in this country A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2006-7-report-english.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada 2010-2011 N2 - Report finds federal government complicit in Canada’s abuse of migrant farm workers Canada’s most comprehensive annual report on the challenges facing migrant farm workers has been released. It confirms that abuse and exploitation of migrant farm workers are rampant in Canada’s agriculture industry. The 2010-2011 Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada report is published by UFCW Canada and the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA). For more than two decades UFCW Canada has been a leading advocate for farm workers' rights, and in association with the AWA operates 10 agriculture worker support centres across Canada. The latest report is the seventh released since 2003. The 25-page report exposes federally operated migrant farm worker programs as rife with human and labour rights violations — and those programs are expanding with the assistance of the Harper Conservative government. In 2010, more than 40,000 migrant workers toiled in the Canadian agriculture industry. If they raise any workplace, safety or housing concerns, migrant workers are typically repatriated and blacklisted from ever working in Canada again. “The denial of human rights should not be the foundation for Canada’s food supply system,” says UFCW Canada and AWA president Wayne Hanley. “But as the report details, that’s exactly what’s happening to migrant farm workers. Even worse, it’s happening with the blessing of the federal government which turns a blind eye to the dangers and abuse migrants are forced to accept if they want to keep their jobs.” The 2010-2011 report is based on interviews, surveys and other frontline information from migrant workers, gathered through the ten agriculture worker support centres operated across Canada by the AWA. Last year alone, the centres handled over 35,000 requests for AWA assistance and advocacy. UFCW Canada is the country’s largest private-sector union with over 250,000 members across Canada working primarily in the food production, processing and retail sectors — including migrant and domestic agriculture workers at various locations in Quebec and British Columbia. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2244:2010-2011-migrant-farm-workers-report-published&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - AWA seeks answers about migrant worker’s death N2 - English: Staff of the AWA are scheduled to meet with officials from the Norfolk General Hospital to discuss the death of a Mexican migrant worker who died a day after he was discharged from the southwestern Ontario hospital. Miguel Juarez Pasión, 25, had spent four days at the Norfolk hospital where a CT scan revealed his pain and tremors were caused by a brain parasite. He was discharged on September 15 and directed to see a specialist the next day in Hamilton, Ontario. Français: Une réunion a été fixée entre le personnel de l’ATA et des responsables de l’Hôpital général de Norfolk pour discuter de la mort d’un travailleur migrant mexicain décédé un jour après qu’il eût reçu son congé de l’hôpital du Sud-Ouest de l’Ontario. Miguel Juarez Pasión, un homme âgé de 25 ans, a passé quatre jours à l’hôpital de Norfolk où un tomodensitogramme a révélé qu’un parasite cérébral était à l’origine des douleurs et des tremblements qu’il ressentait. Il avait reçu son congé le 15 septembre et, sur ordre du médecin, devait voir un spécialiste le jour suivant à Hamilton (Ontario). A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/10/11/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2514:awa-seeks-answers-about-migrant-workers-death&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en UR - http://www.tuac.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2514:awa-seeks-answers-about-migrant-workers-death&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=fr Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW Canada Human Rights Department Release ER - TY - CASE T1 - CAW-Canada v. Presteve Foods Ltd. -Interim decision on expert evidence N1 - Granted. A2 - 2011 HRTO 1581 PB - Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario A1 - Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario,  Y1 - 2011/// J2 - 2009-02443-I and 2010-06274-I to 2010-06299-I ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Migrant Worker Solidarity Caravan-First Stop: Niagara! A1 - J4MW,  Y1 - 2011/08/23/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/9324338478 Y2 - 2011-08-24 T3 - J4MW Press releases ER - TY - EJOUR T1 - Falling through the Cracks: Seasonal Foreign Farm Workers' Health and Compensation across Borders IS - 1 CY - Toronto PB - Industrial Accident Victims' Group of Ontario A1 - McLaughlin, Janet Y1 - 2011/// UR - http://www.injuredworkersonline.org/Documents/ONIWGconfMcLaughlin.pdf Y2 - 2011-08-22 JA - The IAVGO Reporting Service VL - 21 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Another migrant farm worker fatality in Ontario PB - UFCW Canada N2 - English: On August 17, Omar Graham tragically became the sixth Jamaican migrant worker over the past decade to die from an Ontario farm-related accident. Française: Le 17 août, Omar Graham est tragiquement devenu le sixième travailleur migrant jamaïcain à décéder des suites d’un accident agricole en Ontario au cours de la dernière décennie. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2011/08/17/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2470%3Aanother-migrant-farm-worker-fatality-in-ontario&catid=6%3Adirections-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2011-09-02 T3 - UFCW Canada Human Rights Department Release ER - TY - CASE T1 - CUB 77367 A2 - G.T. (15 juillet 2011), CUB 77367, en ligne : Assurance-Emploi <http://www.ae.gc.ca/fra/politique/appels/cubs/70000-80000/77000-77999/77367.shtml>. PB - Canadian Umpire Benefit A1 - Canadian Umpire Benefit,  Y1 - 2011/07/15/ UR - http://www.ei.gc.ca/eng/policy/appeals/cubs/70000-80000/77000-77999/77367.shtml Y2 - 2015-01-22 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Migrant Farm Worker in Need of Support in Jamaica N1 - Lionel Campbell is a migrant farmworker and activist who was exposed to pesticides last summer while working on a Canadian farm. As a result of his injuries suffered in Canada, he has developed serious health problems including persistent pneumonia and liver damage. He was deported to Jamaica at the end of last year and he and his family are now struggling with his deteriorating health and extreme poverty. A1 - Justicia for Migrant Workers,  Y1 - 2011/07/14/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/7634976321 Y2 - 2011-07-15 T3 - J4MW Press releases ER - TY - GEN T1 - Former college employee linked to foreign worker scam - Lloydminster Meridian Booster - Alberta, CA A1 - Crawford, Murray Y1 - 2011/07/05/ UR - http://j4mw.tumblr.com/post/7273094868 UR - http://www.meridianbooster.com/2011/07/03/former-college-employee-linked-to-foreign-worker-scam Y2 - 2011-07-06 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Migrant workers win reprieve fom immigration officials N2 - Nineteen victims of international human trafficking have been granted a reprieve by Canadian immigration officials in Windsor to remain in the country for two more years and make a case for remaining permanently. A1 - Lajoie, Don Y1 - 2011/06/20/ JA - The Windsor Star ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Exploited farm workers win reprieve in Windsor-there is so much more to this story-J4mw behind the scenes in this case... A1 - Lajoie, Don Y1 - 2011/06/20/ UR - http://www.windsorstar.com/life/Exploited%20farm%20workers%20reprieve%20Windsor/4975537/story.html Y2 - 2011-06-28 JA - The Windsor Star ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Foreign workers uniting to seek better treatment N2 - Foreign farm workers, nannies and other temporary labourers in Canada are forming a united front to fight for better treatment by employers. A1 - Keung, Nicholas Y1 - 2011/05/29/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/news/article/999205--foreign-workers-uniting-to-seek-better-treatment Y2 - 2011-06-27 JA - The Toronto Star ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Documentary tells stories of foreign workers N1 - Junko Ota-Paul learned her rights the hard way when she came to Canada four years ago as a live-in caregiver. Ota-Paul said her employer, who hired her from the Philippines under Canada's temporary foreign worker program, paid her less than $8 per hour. "I don't think that the money you get every month would be enough for you to save up for yourself and send money back home to your family," she said. But when she tried to find other work, her employer threatened her with deportation. Her boyfriend at the time (now husband), who was familiar with various immigrant and women's rights organizations, helped her fight for her right to leave her job, but stay in the country. Ota-Paul's loss of rights is a familiar story for many temporary foreign workers in this country. This includes the $10-million class action lawsuit launched earlier this year against the company that owns Denny's restaurants in B.C. for not fulfilling contract terms of over 50 migrant workers. That's why Ota-Paul shared her story as part of a multimedia project, Foreign Worker, Local Neighbours, launched by Mayor Gregor Robertson's working group on immigration. A documentary made for the project shares the stories of Ota-Paul, Ronald Arcos, a worker in the food and service industry, and Luis Almazan, a visual effects editor. Both came to Canada under the temporary foreign worker program. Producer and project consultant Devon Wong said the film is an entry point for the public to understand problems with the temporary foreign worker program and difficulties these workers face. "There are more and more worker abuse stories covered in the media in the last few years," she said. "But yet there hasn't been any exploration of the program's social impact." Vancouver councillor Geoff Meggs, co-chair of the working group, said there are more temporary foreign workers coming to Vancouver than immigrants, but service funding only targets immigrants. "These aren't just arms and legs," Meggs said. "These are human beings and people with rights and aspirations." There are more than 38,000 temporary foreign workers in Metro Vancouver, and more are expected each year, according to the multimedia project's website, www.tfwvancouver.ca. Meggs said he hopes the project will inform the working group's future recommendations on how these workers impact the city and how best to help them. The documentary will screen at 3: 30 p.m. on Saturday in the Alice Mackay Room, Vancouver Public Library. It will be followed by a public forum. N2 - Junko Ota-Paul learned her rights the hard way when she came to Canada four years ago as a live-in caregiver. Ota-Paul said her employer, who hired her from the Philippines under Canada's temporary foreign worker program, paid her less than $8 per hour. A1 - Law, Stephanie Y1 - 2011/05/27/ JA - The Vancouver Sun ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Documentary tells stories of foreign workers N2 - Project features those who have lost their rights. A1 - Law, Stephanie Y1 - 2011/05/27/ UR - http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Documentary+tells+stories+foreign+workers/4847930/story.html Y2 - 2011-06-27 JA - Vancouver Sun ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Celebrate Black History Month EVERYDAY! PB - UFCW Canada N2 - In December 1995, the House of Commons gave its unanimous consent to, “take note of the important contribution of black Canadians to the settlement, growth and development of Canada, the diversity of the black community in Canada and its importance to the history of this country, and recognize February as Black History Month.” It is month to acknowledge a history that dates back in Canada to 1603, and the four centuries to follow, as Canadians of African descent helped build and defend the country we all call home. It is a month for all Canadians to recognize the diverse contributions that Black Canadians have made, and continue to make to our politics, culture, science, business, and the social justice and the trade union movements. As one of the world’s most diverse nations — and better for it — the history of our Black brothers and sisters is a part of Canadian history we should all know. We should know that in 1793, Lieutenant Governor John Simcoe pressured the government of Upper Canada to pass the Anti-Slavery Act. This action catalyzed an anti-slave movement that eventually led to the abolishment of slavery throughout the British Empire. But, equally as important, we should also be aware that as late as 1965, some schools in Ontario were still segregated, and federal immigration barriers existed to restrict Black newcomers from the Caribbean and Africa. To Download our UFCW Canada 2011 Black History Month Poster Click Here <http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/news/bhm_poster8x11_en.pdf> While such overt legislative racism is considered legally unacceptable, racism lingers in numerous other ways to note some examples: in wage and promotion discrimination in Canadian workplaces; racial profiling by authorities; and systemically as Black Canadians, as with other racialized Canadians, in failing to be proportionately represented in leadership and decision making roles in almost all Canadian organizations and business. It is not a surprise that a third of Black Canadians report they have experienced blatant racism at work or in the community. An odious barrier to racialized immigrants also appears in the form of the federal government’s Temporary Foreign Worker program (TFWP). The tentacles of the TFWP lures workers to Canada, mostly from the Global South, and often creates an environment of indentureship but prohibits these workers from permanently immigrating to Canada if they so choose. So the fight for justice continues. We must all celebrate and learn from a history that has spanned the deepest of inequities to the highest of achievements. We must stand with together in solidarity to work towards a future where inequality is a thing of the past. Not just in February, but everyday. In solidarity, Wayne Hanley National President A1 - United Food and Commercial Workers,  Y1 - 2011/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1022%3Ablack-history-month&catid=6%3Adirections-newsletter&Itemid=6&lang=en Y2 - 2011-05-25 T3 - UFCW Canada Human Rights ER - TY - CASE T1 - Manuel Ruiz Espinoza, Salvador Reta Ruiz and Jose Ruiz Sosa v. Tigchelaar Berry Farm Inc, FARMS et al A2 - CV-11-439746 PB - Ontario Superior Court of Justice N2 - The respondents in this case, Manuel Ruiz Espinoza, Salvador Reta Ruiz and Jose Ruiz Sosa, (together the “respondents”) are three agricultural workers from Mexico who worked for Tigchelaar Berry Farms (“Tigchelaar”) in 2010. They were dismissed on August 30, 2010 and they returned to Mexico on the following day. Their employment was arranged through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (“SAWP”), a program of the government of Canada ("Canada") that is administered by Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (“F.A.R.M.S.”). The respondents commenced an action for wrongful dismissal in contract but as well allege that their rights under ss. 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms[1] and ss. 1(a) and 2(e) of the Canadian Bill of Rights[2] have been violated. Specifically, the respondents claim to have been privately deported and argue that before that happened they should have been told the reason for their dismissal and repatriation and given a meaningful opportunity to respond. Y1 - 2011/// UR - https://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2013/2013onsc1506/2013onsc1506.html?searchUrlHash=AAAAAQArTWFudWVsIFJ1aXogRXNwaW5vemEgVGlnY2hlbGFhciBCZXJyeSBGYXJtIAAAAAAB Y2 - 2014-05-01 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Struggle Continues N2 - Decision by Supreme Court denies Ontario farm workers right to effective collective bargaining OTTAWA - April 29, 2011 - The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with the Ontario government to deny Ontario farm workers the same rights to join unions to bargain collectively as other workers in Ontario. The decision by the highest court in the land is the latest chapter in a decades-long battle to provide statutory labour rights protection and collective bargaining for Ontario’s 80,000 domestic and migrant agriculture workers. A1 - United Food and Commercial Workers,  Y1 - 2011/04/29/ UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2340:rights-of-ontario-farm-workers-abandoned-by-supreme-court&catid=6:directions-newsletter&Itemid=316&lang=en Y2 - 2011-05-27 T3 - UFCW Social Justice press releases ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Farm workers have no right to unionize, top court rules A1 - The Globe and Mail,  Y1 - 2011/04/29/ UR - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/subscribe.jsp?art=2003759 Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - The Globe and Mail ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Travailleur guatémaltèque tué N1 - MONTMAGNY | Un travailleur étranger du Guatemala a péri hier à la suite du violent capotage d'une fourgonnette qui transportait huit employés saisonniers, sur l'autoroute 20, près de Montmagny. Le drame est survenu vers 15 h 30, en direction ouest. Le groupe d’attrapeurs de volaille revenait de Saint-François-de-Madawaska, à la frontière du Nouveau-Brunswick. Le trajet de 260 km devait les ramener à Saint-Charles de Bellechasse, où est située l’entreprise qui les embauche. Pour une raison inexpliquée, le conducteur aurait perdu la maîtrise de son véhicule avant de tenter sans succès une manœuvre d’urgence pour reprendre la maîtrise. De toute évidence, l’embardée a été brutale. Au total, quatre occupants ont subi des blessures mineures. Trois autres sont dans un état très sérieux. L’un d’entre eux a été transporté d’urgence à Québec, puisque sa vie serait menacée. La scène de l’accident laissait voir d’importantes traces de sang à l’extérieur et à l’intérieur de l’habitacle, de même que sur la chaussée. Des effets personnels et du matériel de travail agricole se trouvaient partout au sol avec les débris et les éclats des vitres fracassées. Aucune collision n’est survenue avec une autre automobile. Les conditions routières étaient bonnes au moment de l’accident. De fortes rafales de vent balayaient toutefois le secteur. La Sûreté du Québec aura à analyser diverses hypothèses : fausse manœuvre, sommeil, obstacle à éviter ou malaise. Un détour forcé par la route 132 a été imposé aux voyageurs pendant environ trois heures. Choc important Le propriétaire de l’entreprise Trans Vol, qui recrute les salariés hors du pays, était fortement secoué par les événements. « J’arrivais de Québec quand j’ai appris ce qui s’était passé. J’ai demandé à quelqu’un qui parle espagnol de se rendre tout de suite à l’hôpital », raconte Yvan Cloutier. Les plus expérimentés étaient à son emploi depuis trois ans, pour des séjours de huit ou neuf mois consécutifs. « Ce sont de très bons travailleurs. J’ai parlé au consulat pour avertir les familles là-bas. Celui qui est décédé venait d’avoir un enfant. Pour la suite, c’est le bon Dieu qui va décider. » L’homme d’affaires précise également qu’il s’agissait d’un camion flambant neuf, en très bon état. « Il roulait à 110 km/h. Il serait tombé sur le côté de la route. Pour revenir, il aurait donné un coup de roue un peu trop sec et il s’est mis à faire des tonneaux. » L’épuisement ne serait pas en cause non plus, puisque les travailleurs avaient trois jours de six heures et demie d’ouvrage à effectuer. Ailleurs en province, d’autres entreprises embauchent des travailleurs du Guatemala pour exercer le dur métier d’attrapeurs de poulet. Troisième cas en 2011 En février 2011, un accident impliquant un minibus qui transportait 13 travailleurs a fait un mort, sur l’autoroute 40, à Trois-Rivières, en Mauricie. Quelques jours plus tard, une collision frontale à Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier, dans Lanaudière, a fait cinq victimes et 16 blessés. Les cinq victimes étaient aussi des ramasseurs de poulet travaillant pour l’entreprise Pigeon 2006. En janvier 2008, sept membres de l’équipe de basket-ball de l’école secondaire de Bathurst et la conjointe de l’entraîneur ont été tués lorsque leur fourgonnette était entrée en collision avec une semi-remorque. Un débat sur la sécurité de ce type de véhicule avait suivi. A1 - Racine, Jean-François Y1 - 2011/04/19/ UR - http://lejournaldequebec.canoe.ca/journaldequebec/actualites/faitsdiversetjudiciaires/archives/2011/04/20110418-230852.html Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - Journal de Québec ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Migrant workers' health suffers due to housing, labour, lack of training: study N2 - Many migrant farm workers who come to Canada every year are not given proper safety training, live in hot and cramped quarters, have no access to clean water and see their health suffer as a result, say two new research papers. Researchers found that many workers from Mexico, Jamaica, the Philippines and other countries develop ailments linked to the gruelling work they do on Canadian farms, largely in British Columbia and Ontario. The authors say in their papers, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, that workers are suffering from persistent back pain, eye and skin disorders and mental health problems due to a combination of factors. Jenna Hennebry, who co-wrote one of the papers, said overcrowded housing, the rigours of 12-hour days, lack of knowledge of their right to health care and the stress of being away from families for much of the year take a heavy toll on workers. Still, many of those who develop health problems don't seek care because they either don't know they are entitled to it, work too much to get to a clinic or fear losing their job. "One of the most disturbing things we found were the barriers to accessing health care and compensation," said Hennebry, a social scientist with the International Migration Research Centre at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ont. "Forty-five per cent of those surveyed indicated they were fearful of reporting concerns to employers." Hennebry surveyed about 600 migrant workers in Ontario from 2007 to 2009, finding a number of them experienced some type of health ailment linked to their farm work in Canada. She said most complained of back pains, symptoms linked to gastro-intestinal disorders, heat exhaustion, pesticide exposure or food- or water-borne disease. More than 85 per cent said they did repetitive movements all day, likely causing musculoskeletal injuries, while almost 80 per cent said they worked in extreme heat. The majority of those surveyed said they worked many hours without breaks, had no protection from the rain and no safety training or knowledge of the risks in their work. A similar study in B.C. produced similar results. The surveys, some of the first of their kind in Canada, also asked workers about their living conditions on farms that employ tens of thousands of legal migrants every year through federal government programs. Almost 15 per cent said they didn't have access to clean drinking water, very few had fans or air conditioning in their residences and some said there weren't enough beds for everyone. The stress of living in cramped, uncomfortable spaces also takes a psychological toll on the mostly male workforce, who spend up to eight months in Canada under government programs. "They're all living together in really confined settings. They work together all day, they have one or two stoves they have to rotate through when they get home, they have no social interactions," Hennebry said from Waterloo. "Mental health was something we realized was quite a big issue among this group." But researchers contend that farm and domestic workers often don't seek help for their health concerns because they fear losing wages or being sent home by their employer and then are prevented from returning in the future. Hennebry found the majority had a limited understanding of their rights to health care, while 93 per cent had no idea how to make a workers' compensation claim. In the end, she found a lot of workers return home without receiving care or any compensation for injuries, and may take illnesses back to their own country. Bette Jean Crews, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said the reports' findings are questionable because the employment of migrant workers is regulated by the federal government. "I would question the validity of some of those comments," she said in an interview. "I know the program has a housing standard and a very severe inspection and testing of the water and standards around how many men can be in how much space. I know the living standards are very good for workers who are brought in." Crews hires six migrant workers every year on her farm near Trenton. "As far as safety training, workplace safety training is required by the Workers Compensation Act and at our farm, we do it every spring," she said. "Every farmer I know does it every year. These workers are involved in that training as well." Mike Pysklywec, a general practitioner in Hamilton who co-wrote the second report in the medical journal, sees migrant workers at a free weekly clinic in nearby Simcoe for labourers from surrounding farms. He said migrant workers have so little time off that they set up the clinic Friday nights when buses bring labourers in to the community to do laundry, get supplies and go to the doctor. Most of the ailments he treats are directly linked to the long hours workers spend hunched over picking crops or prolonged exposure to dust and fertilizers, which can cause skin and eye irritation. But many don't seek treatment because they haven't been told or didn't understand that they're entitled to it. Pysklywec said others didn't have their government-provided health card. "The employer will often hold their health card, so it stops them from going to the hospital," he said. "It's a huge problem. You know, we take it for granted that our employers are going to support us or that we're going to have work. That's not the case for a lot of people." Crews said she doesn't understand why a farmer would hold a health card because helping migrant workers maintain their health is important so they can work. "I'd see no advantage to an employer to doing that," she said. "Our workers have access to a liaison worker from the country they're from and they can call them 24 hours a day, seven days a week. So if something is happening the worker doesn't like, it would be a matter of hours before the officer is hearing about that and is down to see what is going on." Both authors say there is a need for stringent federal regulations on housing, better safety training, free protective gear and assurances that workers know their rights to health care. Hennebry said it's especially urgent since the numbers of migrant workers coming to Canada appears to be rising, with 193,000 admitted in 2008 on temporary work permits. "As we have these growing numbers, we're going to have more and more vulnerable workers and more and more tragic and disturbing things happen," she said. Ken Forth, president of Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services, a farmer-run program that brings in workers under federal regulation, said he also has deep doubts about the articles. "It's so regulated people ask me why I'm involved because there are so many regulations aimed at ensuring things go right." A1 - United Food and Commercial Workers,  Y1 - 2011/04/18/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/976469--migrant-workers-health-suffers-due-to-housing-labour-study Y2 - 2011-05-25 JA - The Canadian Press ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Migrant workers have inadequate health care in Canada, studies show N2 - Many migrant farm workers who come to Canada every year are not given proper safety training, live in hot and cramped quarters, have no access to clean water and see their health suffer as a result, say two new research papers. A1 - Auld, Alison Y1 - 2011/04/18/ UR - http://www.lco-cdo.org/fr/vulnerable-workers-related-news UR - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/migrant-workers-have-inadequate-health-care-in-canada-studies-show/article1990483/singlepage/#articlecontent Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - The Globe and Mail ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Doctors within borders: meeting the health care needs of migrant farm workers in Canada N1 - Health issues in migrant farm workers in Canada and the United States5–18 • Musculoskeletal - Injuries - Pain in back, neck, knee, shoulders, hands or feet • Ocular - Conjunctivitis - Corneal foreign bodies and abrasions - Pterygia • Dermatologic - Contact dermatitis - Folliculitis - Tinea • Psychological - Depression - Anxiety - Inconsistent sleep patterns • Sexual and reproductive - Sexually transmitted infections (e.g. urethritis) - HIV infection (p.2) 35% of visits to the clinic by migrant workers were for musculoskeletal problems relating to their work. Ocular issues (13% of visits) and skin issues (6%) were also very common (p.2) First, clinicians should strive to be aware of and sensitive to the unique needs, circumstances and vulnerabilities of migrant workers, and to adapt their practices accordingly. For example, physicians could schedule clinic hours to coincide with times in which workers are likely to be in town, or arrange with employers for access to the workers during regular hours. Given the limited job alternatives for migrant workers and the precarious nature of their employment in Canada, clinicians may need to be flexible or creative with treatment-related work restrictions. Clinics could also develop interpretation services that are independent from workers’ employers . In addition, it is helpful to maintain clinical vigilance for common health issues in this group, in recognition of the heavy physical demands of farm labour and the potential for symptoms of irritation from pesticide exposure and other hazards. Finally, clinicians could engage in discussions with local health agencies to consider additional or alternative models of health care delivery. (p4). PB - CMAJ N2 - José, a migrant farm worker from Mexico, presents with a one-month history of low back pain. Through broken English and Spanish, he tells you that he has been in Canada for three months working on an asparagus farm. For the past six weeks, he has been spending 10 hours per day, six days per week, bent over cutting asparagus spears. José’s boss has his health card. Because José is only in town every Friday night to shop for groceries, he is not available when the radiology clinic and laboratory are open. Recognizing that his condition is related to his work, you wonder about filing a claim with the Workers’ Compensation Board. José has difficulty understanding what this means, but clearly does not want his employer to know that he has a sore back. He simply wants pills to help ease the pain. He is unsure of whether he has insurance coverage for medications and wants the least expensive medicine. You write out instructions for an over-the-counter antiinflammatory medication and direct him to a pharmacy. This patient’s unique circumstances have raised a number of unanswered questions. A1 - Pysklywec , Michael A1 - McLaughlin, Janet A1 - Michelle, Tew A1 - Ted, Haines Y1 - 2011/04/18/ UR - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/9/1039.full.pdf+html Y2 - 2013-09-19 JA - Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) VL - 183 SP - 1039 M2 - 1039 SP - 1039-1042 ER - TY - CASE T1 - Ferme Yves Sarrazin et Cruz Marroquin, 2011 QCCLP 1926. A2 - Ferme Yves Sarrazin et Cruz Marroquin, 2011 QCCLP 1926. PB - Commission des Lésions Professionnelles A1 - Commission des lésions professionnelles,  Y1 - 2011/03/14/ ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Immigration officials target bad employers N2 - Federal immigration officials are creating a database of "bad employers" who are blacklisted for abusing a foreign worker program and banned from bringing employees to Canada for two years. A1 - Godfrey, Tom Y1 - 2011/02/27/ UR - http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/27/17426801.html Y2 - 2011-06-28 JA - Toronto Sun ER - TY - CASE T1 - CUB 75951 A2 - F.L. (10 décembre 2010), CUB 75951. PB - Canadian Umpire Benefit Y1 - 2010/12/10/ UR - http://www.ae.gc.ca/fra/politique/appels/cubs/70000-80000/75000-75999/75951.shtml Y2 - 2015-01-22 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Migrant farm workers stage wildcat strike to demand thousands of dollars in unpaid wages: Employer responds with deportation N2 - Over a 100 migrant farm workers employed at Ghesquiere Plants Ltd. are facing imminent repatriation (deportation) after staging a wildcat strike to demanding thousands of dollars in unpaid wages. A1 - Justicia for Migrant Workers,  Y1 - 2010/11/03/ UR - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/ Y2 - 2011-06-21 T3 - Justice For Migrant Workers ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Immigration Policy Shifts: From Nation Building to Temporary Migration IS - Spring/printemps CY - Montréal PB - Association for Canadian Studies / Association d'études canadiennes A1 - Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR),  Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://canada.metropolis.net/pdfs/cdn_issues_CITC_mar10_e.pdf Y2 - 2011-09-23 JA - Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens SP - 90 M2 - 90 SP - 90-93 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Not Just a Few Bad Apples: Vulnerability, Health and Temporary Migration in Canada IS - Spring/printemps CY - Montréal PB - Association for Canadian Studies / Association d'études canadiennes A1 - Hennebry, Jenna L. Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://canada.metropolis.net/pdfs/cdn_issues_CITC_mar10_e.pdf Y2 - 2011-09-23 JA - Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens SP - 74 M2 - 74 SP - 74-77 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Inquest sought into migrant farm worker deaths N2 - For years, Paul Roach spent eight months away from his family in Jamaica to work on an apple farm in Ontario. This year was his last. On Sept. 10, while producing apple cider at the Ayton, Ont. farm, the 44-year-old migrant worker climbed into a giant tank to fix a pump and was overcome by gas. Fellow migrant worker Ralston White, 36, also from Jamaica, jumped in and collapsed as well. A1 - Keung, Nicholas Y1 - 2010/09/22/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/immigration/article/865184--inquest-sought-into-migrant-farm-worker-deaths Y2 - 2011-07-01 JA - Toronto Sun ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Agricultural Deaths Preventable N2 - Agricultural Deaths Preventable: Migrant Advocacy group calls on Provincial Government to Protect Workers: Snap inspections, Coroner’s Inquest, and Criminal Investigation needed to show Zero Tolerance for Migrant Fatalities A1 - Justicia for Migrant Workers,  Y1 - 2010/09/13/ UR - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/ Y2 - 2011-06-21 T3 - Justice For Migrant Workers ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Ontario migrant worker farm deaths probed N2 - The cause of death of two Jamaican migrant agriculture workers who died Friday at a central Ontario farm is still under investigation. A1 - Vancouverite News Service,  Y1 - 2010/09/12/ UR - http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/09/12/ontario-migrant-worker-farm-deaths-probed/ Y2 - 2011-06-06 JA - Vancouverite ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Two migrant workers die at Ontario farm; ministry investigating N2 - The deaths of two migrants workers from Jamaica who died at a farm south of Owen Sound is now under investigation. A1 - Canadian Press,  Y1 - 2010/09/12/ UR - http://www.manufacturing.net/News/FeedsAP/2010/09/mnet-industry-focus-safety-two-migrant-workers-die-at-ontario-farm-ministry-/ Y2 - 2011-06-18 JA - The Canadian Press ER - TY - NEWS T1 - B.C. immigrant workers found in squalid conditions near Golden N2 - The B.C. government has terminated a contract with a Surrey forestry company after 25 workers - many of them immigrants from the Congo - were found living in substandard conditions near Golden in late July. A1 - Bolan, Kim Y1 - 2010/08/10/ UR - http://www.globaltvbc.com/sitemap/immigrant+workers+found+squalid+conditions+near+Golden/3380963/story.html Y2 - 2011-07-01 JA - Global BC ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Quand Saint-Rémi devient San Remi N2 - En pleine Montérégie, par un beau dimanche d'été, la moitié des passants que vous croisez dans la rue vous disent hola plutôt que bonjour. Bienvenue à Saint-Rémi, où 2500 travailleurs agricoles mexicains et guatémaltèques s'ajoutent à la population des environs le temps des récoltes. Une rencontre entre deux cultures, bien loin des quartiers multiethniques urbains. A1 - Guillemette, Mélissa Y1 - 2010/07/31/ UR - http://www.ledevoir.com/economie/emploi/293580/quand-saint-remi-devient-san-remi Y2 - 2011-07-01 JA - Le Devoir ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Transient servitude: migrant labour in Canada and the apartheid of citizenship IS - 1 CY - Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC PB - SAGE publications N2 - Shifts in Canada’s immigration policy, most recently linked to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with the US and Mexico, have created an increased reliance on temporary migrant workers, who constitute a disposable workforce, driven from their own countries by the same forces of neoliberal capitalism which foster their super-exploitation in the Canadian labour market. In this article, the operation of two migrant worker programmes, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP), are considered in the context of the province of British Columbia. The various means by which migrant workers are maintained in a state of vulnerability, available as a pool of cheap labour but excluded from belonging to the nation, are discussed. The article concludes by examining examples and further possibilities of alliances across social movements in BC in order to advance the struggle for human dignity. A1 - Walia, Harsha Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://rac.sagepub.com/content/52/1/71 Y2 - 2011-07-26 JA - Race & Class VL - 52 SP - 71 M2 - 71 SP - 71-84 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Foreign workers in Canada afraid N2 - EDMONTON - News of charges against a company accused of mistreating temporary foreign workers brings a sense of grim satisfaction to Lyla Gray. A1 - Hanon, Andrew Y1 - 2010/06/10/ UR - http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2010/06/04/14257086.html Y2 - 2011-07-01 JA - CNews ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Temp Foreign Workers take the fall again for farmers and government N1 - As nine workers arrested, Harper government and farm industry “are both complicit in a system ‎designed to exploit foreign workers and dispose of them,” says national leader of UFCW Canada TORONTO - The Ontario arrest and detainment of nine temporary foreign workers "is the latest ‎example that both the Harper government and the farm industry are both complicit in a system ‎designed to exploit foreign workers and dispose of them," says Wayne Hanley, the National ‎President of UFCW Canada.‎ The workers are Thai nationals who were brought to Canada under the federal government’s ‎Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program. They were arrested near the Sarnia agriculture ‎operation where they were employed.‎ TFWs are typically granted a two-year work permit, but an underground system of job brokers ‎tied into the farm industry directs these workers to continue to work "under the table" after ‎their visas expire. The nine TFWs arrested near Sarnia are being held in a Toronto detention ‎centre. The Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirmed they were arrested "for ‎suspected violations of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act."‎ ‎"What’s really being violated here is the human rights of these workers," says Hanley. "The ‎federal government encourages farmers to import TFWs, specifically because these workers are ‎granted next to no status and are under the radar when it comes to workplace protections."‎ ‎"By deliberately shortchanging these workers of permanent status, what you have is a TFW ‎program that encourages human trafficking," says Hanley. "What confirms it is that while ‎dozens of workers have been arrested over the past year, not one agriculture operation or job ‎broker has yet to be convicted of breaking the rules when it comes to hiring these workers and ‎paying them under the table."‎ ‎"The recent arrests have nothing to do with justice, and everything to do with politics," says ‎Hanley. "These are terror tactics to keep all TFWs afraid and vulnerable. And as soon as the ‎latest victims are shipped out, the federal government’s TFW program brings in a new batch of ‎workers to be exploited."‎ UFCW Canada is the country’s largest private-sector union. In association with the Agriculture ‎Workers Alliance, it operates ten agriculture worker support centers across Canada.‎ PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - As nine workers arrested, Harper government and farm industry “are both complicit in a system ‎designed to exploit foreign workers and dispose of them,” says national leader of UFCW Canada A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2010/e-news-vol3-issue-9/ Y2 - 2011-06-02 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Tractor tragedy strikes on eve of Ontario safety hearings PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - “Agriculture workers in Ontario absolutely need better protection than they get now, and the Expert Advisory Panel can’t ignore that,” says UFCW Canada president. A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2010/e-news-vol3-issue-14/ Y2 - 2011-06-02 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - NO RIGHTS, NO RULES: MIGRANT WORKERS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD & “I AM A FATHER TOO!” EVENT PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - NO RIGHTS, NO RULES: MIGRANT WORKERS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: UFCW Canada and community allies will be hosting an International Migrant Worker Forum on June 20, 2010 in response to the G8/G20 Summit to be held in and around Toronto, Canada. I AM A FATHER TOO!” to FORM THE LARGEST MIGRANT WORKER HUMAN BILLBOARD IN CANADIAN HISTORY: This event shall highlight the devastating effects of family separation and human displacement that has resulted from the migrant and guest worker programs, such as the Canadian Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), in G8 countries. A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2010/e-news-vol3-issue-15/ Y2 - 2011-06-02 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance Bits and Bites! 3(11) PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - Major victory for agricultural workers in Quebec UFCW Canada Social Justice Program Launches Scholarships for Migrant Workers Here We Grow Again - AWA 10th Centre Opens “Premier Stelmach: End the Harvest of Death”! Campaign Reignited May 1st, International Workers Day A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2010/e-news-vol3-issue-11/ Y2 - 2011-06-02 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Migrant farm workers need access to public healthcare N2 - In spite of contributing to the Canadian economy and paying taxes for 4 to 5 months for up to 25 years, these workers are marginalized from the healthcare coverage their taxes should entitle them to while they are here. A1 - Fernandez, Lynne Y1 - 2010/06/01/ UR - http://www.nupge.ca/content/3314/migrant-farm-workers-need-access-public-healthcare Y2 - 2011-06-08 T3 - The National Union of Public and General Employees ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance Bits and Bites!!! 3(2) N1 - On December 17, James Clancy, the National President of the National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE), pledged his union’s support to the UFCW Canada, by presenting Wayne Hanley, National President of UFCW Canada with a $15,000 donation from NUPGE’s Social Justice Solidarity Fund to the Agricultural Workers Alliance (AWA). The contribution supports the valuable work the AWA does, in association with UFCW Canada, on behalf of agricultural workers. In accepting NUPGE’s Social Justice Solidarity Fund donation on behalf of AWA, Wayne Hanley, and National President of UFCW Canada stated, “This has always been a question about justice and equality. We very much appreciate that NUPGE has been there over the years with UFCW Canada in support of our struggle." Vigil held for temporary foreign workers killed on the job On January 7, UFCW Canada and AWA activists joined more than two hundred other labour and community allies for a candlelight vigil held at the base of a Toronto apartment building where a Christmas Eve construction accident had killed four migrant workers, and left a fifth migrant with critical injuries. The vigil was organized by Justice for Migrant Workers and No One Is Illegal -Toronto. Alexander Bondorev, Aleksey Blumberg, Fayzulla Fazilov and Vladimir Korostin fell more than 13 stories to their death on December 24, after the suspended scaffold they were standing on collapsed. Dilshod Mamurov, who also fell from the scaffold, remains in a Toronto hospital with a broken spine and two fractured legs. All five victims were working in Canada under the Federal government’s Temporary Foreign Workers Program. "It doesn’t have to be this way, and it shouldn’t be this way," says Wayne Hanley, the National President of UFCW Canada. There are thousands of UFCW Canada members across this country who are migrant workers and who don’t face such risks because this union would never allow it." "A worker is a worker – regardless of where they come from. Migrant workers need greater protections given the vulnerable nature of their status in Canada.” A photo gallery of the vigil available on the UFCW Canada Facebook page located at www.facebook.com/ufcwcanada. UFCW Canada takes part at the symposium: "Rights Watch 2010: Tracking Canada’s Civil Liberties and Human Rights Landscape" On January 9, 2010, the UFCW Canada was invited to take part in an important event presented by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) in Toronto. With an impressive record as one of the most active organizations in Canada on constitutional litigation, the CCLA was also an intervener on the side of UFCW Canada in Fraser vs. A.G. (Ont.) at the Supreme Court of Court of Canada in December 2009 (see Quest). The symposium, entitled "Rights Watch 2010: Tracking Canada’s Civil Liberties and Human Rights Landscape" was a 2 day forum bringing together legal academics, law students and lawyers from across Canada was an opportunity to meet, discuss and present on the current state of constitutional litigation and human rights in Canada. Naveen Mehta, UFCW Canada’s director of human rights, presented a workshop on "Freedom of association and protection for marginalized workers" with Joshua Phillips, counsel to the CCLA at the Fraser case. After reviewing the current state of migrant workers in Canada, Naveen noted that "their is a fundamental and practical requirement to re-inject organized labour into the present discourse that is occurring in the halls of academia and immigration advocacy given the strides UFCW Canada and its local unions have made in decreasing the level of suffering for many thousands of migrant and immigrant workers in Canada. It is in a unionized environment that is trained to address the particular concerns of migrant and immigrant workers that we are able to achieve the goal of residency for migrant workers for example. " PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - NUPGE Pledges $15,000 to the AWA! Vigil held for temporary foreign workers killed on the job UFCW Canada takes part at the symposium: "Rights Watch 2010: Tracking Canada’s Civil Liberties and Human Rights Landscape" A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2010/e-news-vol3-issue-2/ Y2 - 2011-05-30 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - CASE T1 - 9008-1951 Québec inc. et Cruz Marroquin, 2010 QCCLP 3664 A2 - 2010 QCCLP 3664 PB - Commission des Lésions Professionnelles A1 - Commission des lésions professionnelles,  Y1 - 2010/05/13/ UR - http://canlii.ca/t/29tc4 Y2 - 2015-01-09 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Toil and trouble N2 - Every temporary worker who comes to Canada has a dream of a better life. Too often the reality they face is exploitation and a system that seems to invite abuse. A1 - Morris, Carolyn Y1 - 2010/05/04/ UR - http://www.ucobserver.org/justice/2010/05/toil_trouble/ Y2 - 2011-07-01 JA - United Church Observer ER - TY - ADVS T1 - Social Determinants of Health of Migrant Farmworkers in Canada CY - Montréal A1 - McLaughlin, Janet Y1 - 2010/// UR - http://www.metropolis2010.net/presentations/C/docs/C8/C8_McLaughlin_Janet.pdf Y2 - 2011-04-08 ER - TY - MGZN T1 - Thèmes Canadiens: Travailleurs étrangers temporaires - Canadian Issues N2 - The movement into Canada of the foreign-born has been a defining feature of our history. The vast majority of the people involved in this movement have been individuals admitted into Canada with permission to reside here permanently. However, the movement of temporary foreign workers intoCanada has existed throughout Canada’s history to varying degrees and has grown in importance over thepast ten years. Support for immigration has remained high among the Canadian population even when faced with a labour market that has seen a decline across birth cohorts in the earnings of the Canadianborn (Beaudry and Green 2000) and an even larger decline in the earnings of immigrants across recent arrival cohorts (Green andWorswick 2004).Within this broader context of weak labour markets and weak immigrant labour market performance,it is important to evaluate the goals and effectiveness of temporary foreign worker programs (TFWPs) in Canada as well as to gain an understanding of the interactions between the TFWPs and the broader immigration programs. The articles contained in this issue make a number of important contributions to our understanding in this area and raise important questions that need to be considered as public policy towards temporary foreign workers evolve. L’arrivée au Canada de personnes nées à l’étranger est une caractéristique déterminante de notre histoire. La grande majorité des personnes ayant fait partie de ce mouvement ont été admises au pays avec l’autorisation d’y résider de façon permanente. Cela dit, la tendance à accueillir au pays des travailleurs étrangers temporaires a toujours existé, à divers degrés, mais a pris de l’importance au cours des dix dernières années. La population canadienne continue d’appuyer les programmes d’immigration, en dépit du fléchissement des gains sur le marché du travail des Canadiens nés au pays, et ce, pour l’ensemble des cohortes de naissance (Beaudry et Green, 2000), ainsi que du repli encore plus important des gains des immigrants en la matière pour l’ensemble des cohortes de nouveaux arrivants (Green et Worswick, 2004). Dans ce contexte de faiblesse du marché du travail et de piètre rendement des immigrants sur ce marché, il est important d’évaluer les objectifs et l’efficacité des Programmes des travailleurs étrangers temporaires (PTET) au Canada et d’analyser les interactions entre les PTET et les programmes d’immigration plus généraux. Les articles qui figurent dans le présent numéro contribuent grandement à notre compréhension de ce secteur et soulèvent d’importantes questions, dont il faut tenir compte au fil de l’évolution de la politique officielle concernant les travailleurs étrangers temporaire. A1 - Metropolis,  Y1 - 2010/04/01/ UR - http://canada.metropolis.net/pdfs/cdn_issues_CITC_mar10_e.pdf Y2 - 2011-07-02 JA - Metropolis ER - TY - CASE T1 - Edye Geovani Chamale Santizo c. Potager Riendeau inc., 2010 QCCRT 153 (CanLII) A2 - 2010 QCCRT 153 (CanLII) PB - Commission des relations de travail CRT A1 - Commission des relations de travail (CRT),  Y1 - 2010/03/25/ UR - http://canlii.ca/t/29604 Y2 - 2014-05-29 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Advocates protest detainment of Thai workers N2 - Immigrant advocacy groups are upset over the recent detainment of nine Thai migrant workers in Chatham. A1 - Bajer, Erica Y1 - 2010/03/23/ UR - http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?archive=true&e=2502625 Y2 - 2011-06-09 JA - Chatham Daily News ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Advocates protest arrest of Thai migrant workers N2 - An immigrant advocacy group is protesting the recent arrest of nine Thai migrant workers in Chatham. A1 - Daniszewski, Hank A1 - Daniszewski, Hank Y1 - 2010/03/22/ UR - http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/03/22/13312656.html Y2 - 2011-07-02 JA - London Free Press ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Pick-Your-Own Labor: Migrant Workers and Flexibility in Canadian Agriculture IS - 2 PB - International Migration Review Y1 - 2010/// UR - https://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/pickyourownlabour.pdf Y2 - 2016-03-06 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Housing Regulations and Living Conditions of Mexican Migrant Workers in the Okanagan Valley IS - Spring CY - Ottawa PB - Metropolis Canada A1 - Tomic, Patricia A1 - Aguiar, Luis L. M. A1 - Trumper, Ricardo A1 - Tomic, Patricia A1 - Trumper, Ricardo A1 - Aguiar, Luis L. M. Y1 - 2010/03/01/ UR - http://canada.metropolis.net/pdfs/cdn_issues_CITC_mar10_e.pdf Y2 - 2011-07-22 JA - Canadian Issues/Thèmes canadiens SP - 78 M2 - 78 SP - 78-82 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - A YEAR OF GOVERNMENT DELAY ADDS TO ALBERTA'S HARVEST OF DEATH N1 - January 28, 2010 — UFCW Canada, the union that has led the campaign for the rights of agriculture workers, is calling on the Alberta government to act without further delay to implement the recommendations of a public inquiry conducted by Justice Peter Barley to include farm workers under provincial workplace health and safety legislation. "Justice Barley delivered straightforward recommendations that would undoubtedly reduce Alberta farm worker injuries and fatalities," says Wayne Hanley, the National President of UFCW Canada. "What doesn't make sense is that a year later the government continues to drag its feet while Alberta's harvest of death continues." Exactly a year ago Justice Barley recommended Alberta bring the province's farm workers under the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act; implement a farm place safety training and inspection system; and extend the Workers Compensation system to cover agriculture workers. To date none of those recommendations have been instituted. "One year and 23 deaths later there is no defense to further delay providing Alberta agriculture workers the same workplace safety rights other Alberta workers have," says Hanley, the national leader of the union that in 2003 launched a Charter challenge against Ontario's similar exclusion of agricultural workers from the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA). In 2006 the UFCW Canada action led to securing OHSA coverage for Ontario agriculture workers. "It has saved lives and prevented accidents on Ontario farms," says the UFCW Canada leader. "We would urge Alberta to also act, without further delay, to stop the discriminatory exclusion of agriculture workers from basic health and safety protection."  LE RETARD DU GOUVERNEMENT ALOURDIT LE BILAN DE LA SAISON DE LA MORT EN ALBERTA Un an et 23 décès plus tard, le gouvernement de l’Alberta continue d’exclure les travailleurs agricoles des mesures de protection en santé et sécurité au travail, en dépit des recommandations de l’enquête publique  Le 28 janvier 2010 — Les TUAC Canada, le syndicat qui a initié la campagne pour les droits des travailleurs agricoles, demande au gouvernement albertain d’agir immédiatement afin de mettre en œuvre les recommandations de l’enquête publique menée par le juge Peter Barley, visant à inclure les travailleurs agricoles dans les dispositions législatives provinciales sur la santé et la sécurité au travail. « Le juge Barley a rendu des recommandations claires qui réduiraient sans aucun doute les blessures et décès des travailleurs agricoles de l’Alberta », commente le président national des TUAC Canada Wayne Hanley. « Ce qui est insensé, c’est qu’une année plus tard, le gouvernement continue  à trainer des pieds alors que la Saison de la mort se poursuit en Alberta. » Il y a exactement un an, le juge Barley recommandait que l’Alberta inclue les travailleurs agricoles de la province dans l’Occupational Health and Safety Act (loi sur la santé et la sécurité au travail) de l’Alberta, qu’elle mette en œuvre un système de formation et d’inspection, et qu’elle élargisse le système d’indemnisation des accidents du travail de sorte à couvrir les travailleurs agricoles.   Jusqu’à présent, aucune de ces recommandations n’a été concrétisée. « Un an et 23 décès plus tard, il n’y a pas d’excuse pour retarder davantage à accorder aux travailleurs agricoles de l’Alberta les mêmes droits en matière de santé et sécurité au travail dont jouissent les autres travailleurs de la province », déclare M. Hanley, le dirigeant national du syndicat qui, en 2003, a lancé une contestation fondée sur la Charte contre l’exclusion similaire des travailleurs agricoles de la Loi sur la santé et la sécurité au travail (LSST) en Ontario. En 2006, l’action en justice des TUAC a abouti en l’obtention de protections en vertu de la LSST pour les travailleurs agricoles de l’Ontario. « Cela a permis de sauver des vies et d’éviter des accidents sur les exploitations agricoles de l’Ontario », ajoute le chef des TUAC Canada. « Nous demandons avec insistance à l’Alberta d’agir de la même façon, et ce sans plus tarder, afin de mettre un terme à l’exclusion discriminatoire des travailleurs agricoles de la protection de base en matière de santé et de sécurité au travail. »    For further information: UFCW Canada Michael Forman, National Representative, Communications 300 – 61 International Blvd., Toronto, ON, M9W 6K4 Tel/Tél: 416.675.1104 ext. 2249 mforman@ufcw.ca CY - Toronto PB - United Food and Commercial Workers N2 - One year and 23 deaths later, the Alberta government continues to exclude farm workers from Health and Safety workplace protections despite public inquiry recommendations A1 - United Food and Commercial Workers,  Y1 - 2010/02/03/ ER - TY - CASE T1 - Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l'alimentation et du commerce, Section locale 501 c. Johanne L'Écuyer & Pierre Locas et Procureur général du Québec N1 - porté en révision judiciaire par le gouvernement et la partie patronale PB - QRCCT 0191 N2 - Invalidation de l'art. 21 5) du Code du travail du Québec sur la base de l'article 2d) de la Charte canadienne Y1 - 2010/// ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Examining the sexual harassment experiences of Mexican immigrant farmworking women N2 - Presents the results of a study with immigrant Mexican farmworkers in California re: their experiences of and responses to sexual harassment on the job. She shows how different factors, statuses, and oppressions combine in complex ways to construct women's vulnerability to WSH as well as their responses (she emphasizes their agency here). Outlines some specific job-related factors that encourage WSH in agriculture. Emphasizes that these women's experiences are different than the White middle-class women, who constitute the focus of most writing on WSH. Also provides a useful categorization of types of SH - 3 types (although the first two may not be mutually exclusive) A1 - Morales Waugh, Irma Y1 - 2010/// JA - Violence Against Women VL - 16 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Canadian unions observe International Migrants Day - Migrant workers’ rights are human rights N2 - Canadian unions are observing International Migrants Day on Friday, December 18, and are calling on governments to adopt and ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families. A1 - Canadian Labour Congress,  Y1 - 2009/12/16/ T3 - Canadia Labour Concress Press Release ER - TY - NEWS T1 - 'They Are Treated as Cattle' N2 - In 2007 three farm workers died in a crash, now the focus of an inquest some hope will expose wider abuses. The 1998 Dodge van rests upside down on a gray concrete divider that matches the colour of the sky. Its body is crumpled and torn like a piece of paper. Four wheels point into the falling rain. Human belongings lay scattered near bodies covered in yellow tarp. White running shoes. Fabric lunchboxes. A red thermos. Three East Indian farm women died on March 7, 2007. Thirteen plus the driver were seriously injured. A1 - Dembicki, George Y1 - 2009/12/08/ UR - http://thetyee.ca/News/2009/12/08/TreatedAsCattle/ Y2 - 2011-06-12 JA - The Tyee ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Community and labour groups decry Canada’s ‎immigration system N2 - Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is under fire from community and labour groups who gathered outside his regional office in Toronto Wednesday to protest his proposed changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program and what they called the failures of the immigration system. A1 - Bonnar, John A1 - Bonnar, John Y1 - 2009/12/04/ UR - http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/johnbon/2009/12/community-and-labour-groups-decry-canada%E2%80%99s-immigration-system Y2 - 2011-06-13 JA - Rabble ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Temporary workers program is a time bomb N2 - The Stephen Harper Conservatives have adopted one of the worst policies of authoritarian oil-rich Arab states: an exploitative system of indentured labour, a.k.a. the temporary workers program. A1 - Siddiqui, Haroon A1 - Siddiqui, Haroon Y1 - 2009/11/05/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/721308 Y2 - 2011-07-02 JA - The Toronto Star ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Public discussion on guest workers N2 - Canada prides itself on being a nation of immigrants, but it is fast becoming a clearing house for temporary workers. The traditional Canadian narrative – of people landing here to build a country and lay the foundations for citizenship – is going underground. Now, we are recruiting an army of 200,000 guest workers every year – almost as many as regular immigrants. A1 - Toronto Star,  Y1 - 2009/11/05/ JA - The Toronto Star ER - TY - NEWS T1 - 'Guest worker' abuses blasted N2 - Lack of oversight by the federal government has allowed foreign workers to be abused by their employers, Auditor General Sheila Fraser says in a scathing report on Canada's immigration program. A1 - Whittington, Les Y1 - 2009/11/04/ UR - http://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/article/720829---guest-worker-abuses-blasted Y2 - 2011-06-14 JA - The Toronto Star ER - TY - THES T1 - Trouble in our Fields: Health and Human Rights among Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto N2 - Trouble in our Fields: Health and Human Rights among Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada Janet McLaughlin Anthropology, University of Toronto PhD, 2009 For many years Canada has quietly rationalized importing temporary “low-skilled” migrant labour through managed migration programs to appease industries desiring cheap and flexible labour while avoiding extending citizenship rights to the workers. In an era of international human rights and global competitive markets, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) is often hailed as a “model” and “win-win” solution to migration and labour dilemmas, providing employers with a healthy, just-intime labour force and workers with various protections such as local labour standards, health care, and compensation. Tracing migrant workers’ lives between Jamaica, Mexico and Canada (with a focus on Ontario’s Niagara Region), this thesis assesses how their structural vulnerability as non-citizens effectively excludes them from many of the rights and norms otherwise expected in Canada. It analyzes how these exclusions are rationalized as permanent “exceptions” to the normal legal, social and political order, and how these infringements affect workers’ lives, rights, and health. Employing critical medical anthropology, workers’ health concerns are used as a lens through which to understand and explore the deeper “pathologies of power” and moral contradictions which underlie this system. Particular areas of focus include workers’ occupational, sexual and reproductive, and iii mental and emotional health, as well as an assessment of their access to health care and compensation in Canada, Mexico and Jamaica. Working amidst perilous and demanding conditions, in communities where they remain socially and politically excluded, migrant workers in practice remain largely unprotected and their entitlements hard to secure, an enduring indictment of their exclusion from Canada’s “imagined community.” Yet the dynamics of this equation may be changing in light of the recent rise in social and political movements, in which citizenship and related rights have become subject to contestation and redefinition. In analyzing the various dynamics which underlie transnational migration, limit or extend migrants’ rights, and influence the health of migrants across borders, this thesis explores crucial relationships between these themes. Further work is needed to measure these ongoing changes, and to address the myriad health concerns of migrants as they live and work across national borders. A1 - McLauglin, Janet Y1 - 2009/// KW - McLaughlin KW - mexico KW - migration KW - Human Rights KW - Human rights KW - Migrants KW - human rights KW - migrants UR - https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/24317/1/McLaughlin_Janet_E_200911_PhD_thesis.pdf Y2 - 2010-06-04 VL - Ph.D. T2 - Anthropology SP - 649 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada 2008-2009 PB - UFCW, AWA N2 - "Based on our direct experience with tens of thousands of workers since the early 1990s, this eighth annual report documents the continuing challenges, obstacles, and rights violations faced by the more than 25,000 migrant agriculture workers who now come to Canada each season under Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). " p. 1 A1 - UFCW Canada,  A1 - AWA/ATA,  Y1 - 2009/// KW - status KW - farm workers KW - Report KW - 2008-2009 UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/Theme/UFCW/files/PDF%202009/2009ReportEN.pdf Y2 - 2015-10-12 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Family needs help for unhappy return to Mexico N2 - A dream for a better life in Canada has become a nightmare for a family from Mexico who must return home before their visas expire Nov. 6. A1 - Shypula , Brian Y1 - 2009/10/09/ JA - The Beacon Herald ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Foreign-worker mistreatment triggers probe N2 - Manitoba's Department of Labour has opened an investigation into the case of four Filipino workers who say they faced intimidation and broken promises after being recruited to work in Canada. A1 - CBC,  Y1 - 2009/10/07/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2009/10/07/071009-labour-mistreatment-investigation.html Y2 - 2011-07-03 JA - CBC News ER - TY - JOUR T1 - From Fields of Power to Fields of Sweat: the dual process of constructing temporary migrant labour in Mexico and Canada IS - 3 N2 - This article examines the social construction of migrant labour forces through an analysis of the exterior and interior conditioning in an agricultural contract labour programme between Mexico and Canada. I argue that forms of exterior conditioning, especially employers’ point-of-production control, establishes the context within which migrant workers’ experience unfolds, for which reason it contributes to their ‘interior conditioning’. But I argue as well that the result is shaped by workers’ employment of a ‘dual frame of reference’ through which they gauge Canadian wages and working conditions the only way they can, which is in relationship to Mexican ones. Given that neoliberal policies have reduced the options available in Mexico, and diminished the attractiveness of those that remain, contract labour in Canada presents one of the few opportunities many poor, rural Mexicans have to acquire the income necessary for a minimally dignified life. Consequently most workers in this programme do everything possible to please their employers and continue in the programme. A1 - Binford, Leigh Y1 - 2009/// UR - http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=5&hid=13&sid=feb7695c-ba8c-4597-be1a-8b5219f0be9e%40sessionmgr10&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=wdh&AN=37252117 Y2 - 2011-07-26 JA - Third World Quartely VL - 30 SP - 503 M2 - 503 SP - 503-517 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Migrant workers from Mexico undergoing more stringent tests N2 - Mexican migrant labourers are at work in Grey-Bruce now, mostly at apple orchards in eastern Grey County, as the world’s attention focuses on the swine flu outbreak first reported last week in Mexico. A1 - Dunn, Scott Y1 - 2009/// UR - http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1544046&archive=true Y2 - 2011-06-17 JA - The Sun Times ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Community groups fight for better living, working conditions for temporary foreign workers and live-in caregivers N2 - Eleven o’clock Tuesday morning at the Workers’ Action Centre. Media and supporters are jam-packed into a room to listen to representatives of the newly formed Caregivers Action Centre, comprised of former and current caregivers working for change in Temporary Foreign Worker programs including the Live-In Caregiver Program and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker A1 - Bonnar, John Y1 - 2009/06/11/ UR - http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/johnbon/2009/06/community-groups-fight-better-living-working-conditions-temporary-for Y2 - 2011-06-16 JA - Rabble ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada: Low-skilled Workers as an Extreme Form of Flexible Labour IS - 1 A1 - Fudge, Judy A1 - MacPhail, Fiona Y1 - 2009/// JA - Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal VL - 31 SP - 101 M2 - 101 SP - 101-141 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance Bits and Bites 2(24) PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - - Labour Relations Commission refuses to hear, by videoconference, a Guatemalan farm worker wishing to challenge his dismissal - Commemorating the 2nd Anniversary of Patricia Pérez’s death - Report on Farm Workers’ Health and Safety in British Columbia Released - Black Eagle Dinner Reminder A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2009/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2009/e-news-vol2-issue-24/ Y2 - 2011-06-06 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Tragedy at Mayfair Farms PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - The death of a Manitoba farmer and the injury of three workers on Monday “is a tragic reminder that farmers and farm workers face hard, unpredictable, and dangerous working conditions everyday,” says Wayne Hanley, the National President of UFCW Canada. A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2009/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2009/news-vol-2-issue-7/ Y2 - 2011-06-04 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance Bits and Bites! (2)14 PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - The Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) is pleased to welcome a new member to its team. FCW Canada and the AWA have joined other community groups to defend and advocate for the rights of migrant workers. The Abbotsford AWA centre in British Columbia will have the privilege of hosting members of the UFCW Canada Youth Program on Sunday April 26, 2009. The AWA and UFCW Canada would like to invite you to a breakfast to hear panel speakers talk about the drastic increase of the use of temporary foreign workers A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2009/// UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2009/e-news-vol2-issue-14/ Y2 - 2011-06-04 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Immigration Raids Firm, 8 Detained N2 - The Canadian Border Services Agency has detained eight people after a Wednesday immigration raid at a Leamington business. A1 - Hill, Sharon A1 - Hill, Sharon Y1 - 2009/05/29/ UR - http://www.immigrationwatchcanada.org/2009/05/29/immigration-raids-firm-8-detained/ Y2 - 2011-06-16 JA - The Windsor Star ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Checks on farm workers 'racial profiling' N2 - Mexican and Guatemalan farmhands are "racially profiled" and forced to undergo swine flu checks before being allowed to board flights to Canada to work, a Toronto support group says. A1 - Godfrey, Tom Y1 - 2009/05/01/ JA - Toronto Sun ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Farms facing possible labour delays N2 - The swine flu outbreak in Mexico is causing uncertainty on area farms that depend on migrant workers from that country to plant their crops. A1 - Pearce, Daniel Y1 - 2009/04/29/ UR - http://www.simcoereformer.ca/2009/04/29/farms-facing-possible-labour-delays Y2 - 2011-06-17 JA - Simoncoe Reformer ER - TY - RPRT T1 - UFCW Canada Speaks Out Against U.S. Style Immigration Raids in Southern Ontario PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - April 5, 2009, Toronto - Dozens of migrant workers in Bradford, Markham, Leamington, and East Toronto have been arrested, detained and are likely slated for deportation at the Rexdale Immigration Holding Centre after a series of U.S. style immigration raids carried out by CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency) throughout this week. A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2009/04/05/ UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2009/news-vol-2-issue-13/ Y2 - 2011-06-04 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - ICOMM T1 - Migrantscanada CY - montreal N2 - Blog tracking news about migrant workers in Canada and elsewhere A1 - Nieto, Roberto Y1 - 2009/01/21/ UR - migrantscanada.wordpress.com Y2 - 2010-01-21 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Happy New Year!!! PB - Agriculture Workers Alliance N2 - 2008 was a challenging year and we saw our program advance in ways we never thought possible. A1 - Agriculture Workers Alliance,  Y1 - 2009/01/01/ UR - http://awa-ata.ca/en/media/e-news-2009/news-vol-2-issue-1/ Y2 - 2011-06-03 T3 - AWA E-News ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Abuse of foreign workers must stop - Advocacy group is demanding Action A1 - Boughner, Bob Y1 - 2008/09/23/ KW - Abuse KW - safety KW - foreign farm workers KW - living conditions KW - sexual assault KW - labour standards UR - http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/2008/09/23/abuse-of-foreign-workers-must-stop Y2 - 2014-03-20 JA - The Chatham Daily News ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Migrants back and forth N1 - It is a summer afternoon on a farm near St-Rémi, a half hour drive from Montreal, and columns of hunching Mexican workers trudge along rows of onions to harvest the crop. They pause when this correspondent and a photographer show up to snap pictures. Two forewomen, young Quebecers both, look on amusedly for a few minutes before shooing us away. This would be another summer of diminishing returns for Quebec farmers, and of defiance from some of their Mexican workers. The returns of farming in Quebec are as fickle as the weather here, and this year farmers began the season with growing debt and news that the federal government wouldn't meet its promises of assistance. At le Légumière, a farm close to St-Rémi, the boss had another surprise as the summer ended, when he approached three Mexican workers who were organizing to become the first unionized migrant Mexican farm workers in the province and told them they would be sent back to Mexico the next day. One of the workers, Bonifacio Santos, never boarded the plane, opting to challenge the repatriation before the Quebec Labour Relations Commission. The Commission awarded him an injunction and will consider this week a motion filed by United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada arguing for the migrant workers' right to join a union. Devil may care The owners of le Légumière refuse to comment on the case and their lawyer didn't return calls from the Mirror. Santos claims that, ever since he was reinstated, the boss has taken to insulting him before other workers, referring to him as "the devil." "'Where is the devil?', the boss asks when I'm not around," Santos says, shrugging his shoulders. "When he approached me to send me back, he said there wasn't enough work, and that was good enough reason. But he's never done that before. The way they repatriate us is unjust, and I want to say: 'No, this is not right." Over the summer, Santos had gone on St-Rémi's radio station asking for better conditions for the estimated 4,000 migrant workers who came to Quebec this year˜3,000 from Mexico, and others from Guatemala and the Caribbean. Some 150,000 Mexican workers, many from farming communities in the Mexican states of Morelos and Pueblo, have come and gone on a seasonal agricultural workers' agreement between the Canadian and Mexican governments since it began 32 years ago, says the Mexican consulate in Montreal. The workers, most family men, some teenagers and some well into retirement age, might work every day of the week at the height of the season, making enough money to cover their debts in Mexico (many workers, especially the newcomers to the program, come saddled with debt) and to send remittances to their families. Santos is sitting behind a large table in the meeting room of the radio station, which the UFCW organizers have turned into a makeshift office for the evening. The radio station is across a parking lot from a Provigo. Every Thursday and Sunday, buses bring in Mexican workers from their lodging on surrounding farms to shop at the Provigo, and the workers, dressed in their finest shirts, then stroll out into the lot pushing carts of bread, milk, chips and hot dogs. Every Thursday and Sunday, the union organizers hand out leaflets and go through paperwork brought to them by workers. This evening, two UFCW organizers sit at the end of the table labouring through a thicket of tax and medical forms, surrounded by tired looking workers. All comes to a standstill when Santos, a charismatic man in his 30s who holds the respect of the other workers in the room, thumps the table when asked why migrant workers need to unionize. "[The people at the Mexican consulate] are a bunch of liars," Santos says. "Workers aren't content if they're tempted to unionize. Ask the consulate how many ill workers they sent back without support or benefits. Ask them how many times they have visited the farms to see the conditions of the workers." Negotiation without representation Fernando Borja, the Mexican consular official stationed in Montreal to oversee the migrant labour program, says most workers are happy with their conditions. "The Ministry of Labour in Mexico took a poll of workers in Mexico, and 91.2 per cent say they're happy," according to Borja. However, a 2003 poll conducted in Mexico by the North South Institute suggests 60 percent of surveyed workers supported unionizing in Quebec. Borja says the Mexican government constantly negotiates the contract with the Canadian government, increasing their wages over the years to $8.50 an hour. When a farm boss has a problem with a worker and wants to repatriate him, Borja is the person whom an employer should approach. He says the consulate takes no sides in these conflicts. "We don't make decisions based on accounts from employees," he says. But, "We also talk to the worker to see who's saying what." However, Borja says the first time he heard of Santos's case was when he learned Santos hadn't boarded the plane back to Mexico. In that case, he wasn't approached, he says, because Santos was being sent home on grounds of lack of work, and he has learned the details from Santos's lawyers. "It wasn't a repatriation per se," he says. "But apparently he was the one doing union activities." In the summer, another worker was repatriated shortly after he complained about his conditions in a radio interview, UFCW organizers say. Borja says he hasn't heard of that case, nor of the worker who was sent back after it was discovered he had developed a hernia while in Quebec, according to the UFCW. Borja refuses to take a position on unionizing, although he says, "If the Canadian government decides this is too much trouble, that the workers are not happy, that could be bad for the workers." Protection lacking The UFCW says it has to intervene. "I've never in my life seen a contract negotiated without the involvement of workers," says Louis Bolduc, assistant director of UFCW Canada. "These people have a right to be represented and to join a union. Most farmers are good employers. But some others, they treat the workers as garbage." UFCW organizers and workers who spoke to the Mirror say many of them don't trust the Mexican consulate, which they accuse of usually siding with the bosses, and workers face problems that remain outstanding and ignored. "The migrant workers want to see the contracts respected, have proper wages and housing should be respectable," says Bolduc. "Sometimes the workers are sent to the field an hour after the chemicals are placed," he claims. René Mantha, who heads Foundation of Companies for the Recruitment of Foreign Labour, an association of more than 300 farms in Quebec that hire migrant labour, says unionizing workers threatens Quebec agriculture by increasing production costs. "There are no unions in agriculture elsewhere," he says. "How can we compete?" Mantha says he was surprised to hear Mexican workers were calling for a union. "These workers have good conditions," he says. "They're paid more than minimum wage, they come back every year. No one forces them to come back." Quebec farms need the migrant workers because, "There are no Canadians available to do this job," he says. "They have the choice to do something else. We can't force anybody to work in agriculture. "I don't think consumers are preoccupied by these questions," he says. "They're looking for the cheapest price." N2 - An anti-union environment and the threat of repatriation make life difficult for Quebec's Mexican agricultural workers. A1 - Elatrash, Samer Y1 - 2008/06/30/ UR - http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/102606/news1.html Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - Montreal Mirror ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Report on B.C. farm workers' conditions describe unsafe work conditions CY - Vancouver A1 - Canadian Press,  Y1 - 2008/06/19/ KW - Working conditions KW - wage KW - safety KW - Farmworkers KW - sanitaries UR - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/bc/pdf/canadian_press_ccpa_report.pdf Y2 - 2014-03-28 JA - Canadian Press ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Cultivating Farmworkers Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC PB - Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - BC Office A1 - Kerry Preibish,  A1 - Fairey, David Y1 - 2008/// UR - http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/BC_Office_Pubs/bc_2008/bc_farmworkers_full.pdf Y2 - 2011-05-27 T3 - Economic Security Project Reports ER - TY - CPAPER T1 - Open borders, closed citizenships: Nepali labor migrants in Delhi CY - 83 DDA Janta Flats, GTB Enclave, Delhi - 93, IndiaSouth Asia Study Centre, PB - Institute of Social studies N2 - Nepal and India share an 'open' border as per the agreements of a bilateral treaty signed in 1950. According to the treaty, Nepalis and Indians can travel and work across the border and are to be treated at par with the native citizens. Rural Nepalis, who have for long been suffering poverty, unemployment and more recently a civil war, have been migrating to India in thousands every year. In this paper, I discuss the findings of a qualitative study conducted between 2003 to 2006 among two categories of Nepali migrants living in four clusters of Delhi: those who have and have not settled in India after prolonged period of work. The study entailed in-depth interviews with 100 labor migrants, and field observations. The interviews focused on day to day interaction between the Nepali labor migrants and the Indian state as it is embodied in the policemen and lower level administrators with whom the labor migrants mostly interact. The paper discusses the modes and processes of incorporation and subjugation of the Nepali labor migrants by the Indian market in close collaboration with the state apparatus. It also discusses the modes and processes of day-to-day resistance by the labor migrants. Based on the analysis of the data, I argue that despite the legal rhetoric, the Indian state treats the Nepalis laborers as rights-less, non-citizens. Their precarious economic and political position means that they do not risk themselves further by demanding citizenship and labor rights from the supposedly liberal Indian state, but help grease its increasingly liberalizing economy as docile and cheap laborers. Are these the types of 'open borders' that the neo-liberal proponents of globalization trying to promote across the world? This issue is discussed at the end. Y1 - 2007/// KW - India KW - Nepal KW - Labour Migration; KW - Nepali Watchmen UR - http://www.mtnforum.org/sites/default/files/pub/1139.pdf Y2 - 2012-11-03 T2 - International migration, multi-local livelihoods and human security:Perspectives from Europe, Asia and Africa ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Protecting the rights of migrant workers in Canada N2 - In recent years, Canada has been increasingly relying on migrant workers admitted to Canada on temporary work permits A1 - Canadian Council for Refugees,  A1 - Canadian Council for Refugees,  Y1 - 2007/11/01/ UR - http://ccrweb.ca/documents/migrantworkers.htm Y2 - 2011-06-27 T3 - Canadian Council for Refugees ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Situation des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada 2006-2007 N2 - TUAC Canada (le syndicat des Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l’alimentation et du commerce) a joué un rôle essentiel et actif dans le soutien et la défense des travailleurs agricoles du Canada depuis le début des années 1990. Ce sixième rapport national offre des informations actualisées sur la situation des travailleurs agricoles migrants dans notre pay A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2007/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2006-7-report-french.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - La situación de los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes en Canadá 2006-2007 N2 - UFCW Canada (El sindicato United Food and Commercial Workers) ha jugado un rol central y activo en la ayuda y defensa de los trabajadores del sector agrícola en Canadá desde principios de los años 90. Este sexto informe nacional proporciona información actual sobre la situación de los trabajadores agrícolas migrantes en este país A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2007/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2006-7-report-spanish.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - CASE T1 - Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l'alimentation et du commerce, section locale 501 c. La Légumière Y.C. inc. et Les Fermes Hotte & Van Winden et HydroSerre Mirabel inc. et Procureur général du Québec et Procureur général du Canada A2 - CRT PB - CRT A1 - Commission des relations de travail (CRT),  Y1 - 2007/09/24/ UR - http://www.crt.gouv.qc.ca/uploads/tx_crtdecisions/2007QCCRT0467.pdf Y2 - 2014-03-03 J2 - 2007 QCCRT 0467 ER - TY - THES T1 - Bicycles Traveling in the Rain: A Participatory, Art-Informed Account of Mexican Farmworkers in Canada CY - Toronto PB - University of Toronto N2 - This participatory, arts-informed study examines the experiences of workers from Mexico that live and work in the Niagara-on-the-Lake region of Ontario, Canada under the Commonwealth Caribbean and Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers program (SAWP). Whereas previous literature on the experiences of SAWP workers has relied on researcher-driven interviews and observations, this study looks at how workers themselves choose to tell their stories using collage and drama in a series of interactive workshops. This document begins by outlining the research problem and goes on to review existing literature on guestworker programs like the SAWP and the global context surrounding them. An overview of the participatory, workshop methodology follows. Data collected in this study is then presented and analyzed, including a number of new findings. Finally, the effectiveness of the methodology is evaluated, along with recommendations for further research and community organizing with SAWP workers. A1 - Hinnenkamp, Katie Marie Y1 - 2007/// UR - http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1338910391&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1312740672&clientId=48948 UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/bicycles-traveling-in-the-rain-a-participatory-arts-informed-account-of-mexican-farmworkers-in-canada/oclc/234120417 Y2 - 2011-08-07 VL - M.A. T2 - Adult Education and Counseling Psychology SP - 191 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - 800 more foreign farm workers wanted this year. Mexicans and Jamaicans to fill 2,000 vacant jobs A1 - Constantineau, Bruce Y1 - 2007/06/27/ JA - Vancouver Sun SP - 1 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Allégations de violence dans des fermes du Québec CY - Montréal N2 - Environ 4500 ouvriers mexicains et guatémaltèques travaillent dans des fermes du QUébec cet été. Ils viennent ici en vertu d'un programme géré par Ressources humaines et Développement social Canada. Des cas de violence sont signalés. Plusieurs travailleurs temporaires migrants au Canada ont signalé des abus de violence de la part de fermier québécois - leurs employeurs - et le gouvernement canadien reste silencieux à cet égard et n'a pas fait d'enquête. Il laisse les gouvernements étrangers s'en occuper. Cette passivité à été dénoncée par une commission d'enquête Ces situations ne sont pas rares et sont toujours démenties par les patrons. Une allégation de violence est donnée en exemple. Jose Antonio Garica Juarez, un Mexicain de 29 ans affirme avoir été agressé par son patron qui l'aurait intentionnellement frappé au genou après lui avoir dit qu'il ne travaillait pas assez rapidement. Il aurait ensuite essayer de le mettre à terre et criait de façon menaçante. Il lui a, par après, ordonné de ne rien raconter, sans quoi il (M. Juarez) aurait beaucoup de problèmes. Il affirme également que le patron a l'habitude d'insulter et d'humilier ses employés immigrants. Son patron l'a ensuite obligé à travailler 20 jours de suite malgré un hématome au genou. À son retour au Mexique, le patron l'a appelé pour lui dire que, s'il maintenait sa déclaration, il ne pourrait pas revenir au Canada. Des témoins (Cristobal Ajin, Ricardo Bucaro et Jose Sicajau) confirment la version de M. Juarez et affirment que le patron les insulte régulièrement et qu'ils ont été punis pour cette dénonciation: ils n'ont pas pu revenir au Canada l'année suivante. Cette ferme n'a pas été exclue du Programme même si d'autres événements violents y ont été signalés. Mario Lauzon, fonctionnaire de Ressources humaines et Développement social Canada et responsable du Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers du Québec affirme que c'est aux consulats du Mexique et du Guatemala d'exclure les emploeyurs de leurs listes. Le gouvernement fédéral n'a jamais fait enquête. A1 - Noël, André Y1 - 2007/06/20/ KW - travailleurs migrants KW - violence KW - insulte KW - humiliation KW - plainte KW - peur KW - CATA KW - FERME KW - intimidation KW - passivité du gouvernement fédéral JA - La Presse SP - 2 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Fermier québécois exclu du programme d'ouvriers saisonniers CY - Montréal N2 - Quatre ouvriers mexicains ont signé une déclaration, l'été dernier, affirmant que leur patron, Raoul Forino, avait fait mine d'attaquer un des leurs avec un couteau, dans une autre ferme de Saint-Michel, au sud de Montréal. M. Forino dément catégoriquement l'allégation. Mais les consulats du Mexique et du Guatemala l'ont prise au sérieux et ne lui ont pas fourni de travailleurs cet été. Cet événement n'est pas le seul incident violent associé à ce patron. A1 - Noël, André Y1 - 2007/06/20/ KW - travailleurs migrants KW - violence KW - FERME KW - menaces KW - programme d'ouvriers saisonniers JA - La Presse SP - 3 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Blessé au travail, un ouvrier agricole mexicain n'a plus aucun revenu CY - Montreal N2 - Victime d'un accident de travail sur une ferme québécoise, un ouvrier agricole mexicain n'a plus aucun revenu et survit depuis un an et demi grâce à une âme charitable. La Commission de la santé et de la sécurité au travail (CSST) a refusé de lui verser toutes les indemnités auxquelles il avait droit, parce qu'il a perdu son statut de travailleur. A1 - Noël , André Y1 - 2007/06/19/ KW - Commission des droits de la personne KW - Régie de l'assurance maladie KW - accident de travail KW - indemnités KW - travailleurs migrants temporaires JA - La Presse SP - 6 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Farmer fined over pesticide application N2 - One of the province's best-known blueberry and potato growers, Elwood Lawton, has been fines $ 1,000 for letting migrant farm workers apply pesticides to crops on his Mount Stewart-area farm without having the proper certification. A1 - The Guardian,  Y1 - 2007/06/16/ UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/blueberry-grower-fined-1-000-for-pesticide-infraction-1.686607 Y2 - 2014-05-01 JA - The Guardian (Charlottetown) SP - 3 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Une ferme condamnée pour racisme A1 - Daigneault, Sylvain Y1 - 2007/05/28/ UR - http://www.hebdosregionaux.ca/monteregie/2005/04/23/une-ferme-condamnee-pour-racisme Y2 - 2014-02-24 JA - Le Soleil ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mexican migrant workers say they were misled into signing union cards.(Broadcast transcript) A1 - CBC,  Y1 - 2007/// UR - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2007/01/31/migrant-workers.html Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Analysis, Solidarity, Action—A Workers’ Perspective on the Increasing Use of Migrant Labour in Canada A1 - Canadian Labour Congress,  A1 - Valiani, Salimah Y1 - 2007/// UR - http://www.academia.edu/4973517/Analysis_Solidarity_Action-a_Workers_Perspective_on_the_Increasing_Use_of_Migrant_Labour_in_Canada_Canadas_Part_in_the_Global_Integration_of_Labour_Markets Y2 - 2011-05-27 ER - TY - ADVS T1 - Los Mexicanos le combat de Patricia Pérez N1 - Scénario et réalisation : Charles Latour Montage : Robert Cornellier Images : Robert Vanherweghem, Charles Latour Images additionnelles : Derek Vertongen Son : Marcel Fraser, Charles Latour Son additionnel : Madeleine David Musique originale : Serge Nicol Assistante à la réalisation : Véronique-Myriam Cloutier Recherche : Charles Latour Recherche additionnelle : Gilles Parent Conception sonore : Guillaume Boursier Montage sonore : Sébastien Bédard, Dany Rodrigue Mixage sonore : Richard Pelletier Produit par : Macumba Doc. Inc. Producteur : Charles Latour Producteurs exécutifs : Robert Cornellier, Patricio Henriquez, Raymonde Provencher © Macumba Doc. Inc. 2007 Durée 43 min. CY - Montréal PB - Macumba International N2 - On ignore parfois que l’exploitation des travailleurs se trouve à nos portes. Entre 1966 et 1976, le Canada signe de multiples ententes bilatérales avec des pays pauvres de l’Amérique latine et des Antilles afin de mettre sur pied un programme pour pallier au manque de main-d’œuvre dans les campagnes canadiennes : Le programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonnier du Canada (PTAS). En 2006, ils étaient près de 4000 à venir travailler dans les fermes québécoises pour une durée de six à huit mois. Isolés géographiquement et linguistiquement, ils ne connaissent pas leurs droits et ils n’ont aucun représentant pouvant défendre leurs intérêts convenablement, ce qui les rend très vulnérables aux abus des patrons. À l’été 2006, Patricia Pérez, représentante du syndicat des travailleurs unis de l’alimentation et du commerce (TUAC), enclenche la campagne de syndicalisation des travailleurs agricoles migrants dans quelques entreprises agricoles au sud de Montréal. Elle tentera par tous les moyens possibles de leur venir en aide, de les informer de leurs droits et ultimement, de les syndiquer. Son combat ne sera pas simple. A1 - Latour, Charles Y1 - 2007/// UR - http://www.macumbainternational.com/2_12.php Y2 - 2011-08-04 ER - TY - THES T1 - Gendered citizenship and migrant work in Canada CY - Canada PB - Carleton University (Canada) N2 - The Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the Live-In Caregiver Program facilitate migrant work in farming and home care, respectively. Though their industries differ, the programs are built upon similar assumptions about worker autonomy, transnational citizenship and the public-private distinction. This has consequences for migrating worker resistance in Canada. Workers first exercise transnational civil citizenship by signing an overseas contract. Conceived in law as autonomous contracting parties, they are nevertheless motivated by family relationships. In Canada, worker citizenship is managed through the work permit, a framework which enables workplace injustice. This injustice is maintained through a blurred line between 'just like family' and 'employee' status, and the public discourse of the 'family farm'. Using court cases as evidence, I conclude that worker disruption of the artificial line between public and private may result in positive legal change, including concrete gains in pay, benefits and labour protections. A1 - Law, Alexandra Y1 - 2007/// ER - TY - CPAPER T1 - Working Conditions in British Columbia’s Horticulture Industry: Contrasting Mexican and Indo-Canadian Workers CY - Calgary N2 - The horticulture industry in British Columbia has long depended on the work of immigrant Indo-Canadians. In 2004 however, the province joined the federal Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, which brings workers from Mexico and the Caribbean to Canada on a temporary basis, for a maximum of 8 months per year. This paper will present some initial findings on how citizenship status and linguistic and cultural differences may contribute to farm workers’ experiences of occupational health and safety on BC farms. A1 - Hanson, Christina A1 - Otero, Gerardo A1 - Preibisch, Kerry Y1 - 2006/09/27/ UR - http://meme.phpwebhosting.com/~migracion/rimd/documentos_miembros/Hanson_Otero_Preibisch-CALACS-2006.pdf Y2 - 2011-08-22 T2 - 2006 Meetings of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Fermes du Québec : Des Mexicains se battent pour leur syndicalisation A1 - Beauchemin, Malorie Y1 - 2006/09/23/ JA - La Presse SP - 24 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Campos agrícolas, campos de poder: el Estado mexicano, los granjeros canadienses y los trabajadores temporales mexicanos IS - 3 N2 - RESUMEN El artículo aborda el análisis del Programa de Trabajadores Agrícolas Temporales entre México y Canadá a través de los conceptos “campos sociales” y “campos de poder” para entender la aparente contradicción entre la satisfacción abiertamente expresada por los participantes en el programa y el alto grado de control, trabajo intensivo y bajos salarios que muchos trabajadores padecen en Canadá. Solamente cuando observamos la manera como los migrantes “tejen” diferentes campos de poder –el campo de relaciones sociales en Canadá y el campo local formado por las relaciones en la comunidad en que viven– podemos entender que al ir a trabajar a Canadá, lo que implica un rompimiento de los lazos con sus familias y comunidades, los trabajadores migrantes pueden cumplir con las expectativas morales y culturales de sus localidades. ABSTRACT This essay analyses the Temporary Farm Workers Program between Mexico and Canada using the terms “social fields” and “power spaces” to understand the apparent contradiction between the satisfaction expressed by the participants in the program and high levels of control, intensive work and low wages that the workers suffer in Canada. Only when we observe the ways the migrants “weave” the different power spaces—in Canada’s social relations space and the space shaped by the relations in the community they live—we can understand that to be working in Canada, that means to break their family and community bonds, the workers can comply with the local moral and cultural expectations. A1 - Binford, Leigh Y1 - 2006/01/01/ UR - http://www2.colef.mx/migracionesinternacionales/revistas/MI10/n10-054-080.pdf Y2 - 2011-07-26 JA - Migraciones internacionales VL - 3 ER - TY - THES T1 - Plus ça change?---A comparative analysis of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program and the pilot Foreign Worker Program for farm workers in Quebec CY - Canada PB - Ryerson University (Canada) N2 - For the last 40 years, migrant farm workers from the Caribbean and Mexico have been recruited to work temporarily on Canadian farms under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). In 2002, the pilot Foreign Worker Program (FWP) for low skilled migrant workers was initiated in the province of Quebec and under this program began the recruitment of Guatemalan migrant farm workers. Since the program's start, the number of Guatemalan migrants has nearly tripled and there seems to be a decline in the number of workers hired under the SAWP in Quebec. This paper examines the FWP's development, set-up, consequences and operation alongside the SAWP and shows how the Canadian state is expanding the number and flexibility of temporary worker programs. This paper draws attention to the neo-liberal context of migrant farm labour in Canada, pointing to the ways in which Canada's federal policies governing seasonal agricultural migrants and the agricultural labour market are exploitative and racist. Key Words . migrant; agriculture; seasonal; temporary; racism; foreign labour; Foreign Worker Program; Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program A1 - Lowe, Sofia Y1 - 2006/// UR - http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1742033961&Fmt=7&clientId=48948&RQT=309&VName=PQD Y2 - 2011-06-11 VL - M.A. ER - TY - CASE T1 - Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse c. Centre maraîcher Eugène Guinois Jr inc. PB - Quebec Human Rights Tribunal - District of Beauharnois N2 - The events occured in 2000 and 2001, in québec. The commission is exercising the recourse with the consent of 4 Quebecers of Haïtian descent: Ronald Champagne, Célissa Michel, Célianne Michel, and Cupidon Lumène. They worked for the Centre Maraîcher Eugène Guinois Jr Inc, located in Sainte-Clotilde-de-Châteauguay, a family business which grows lettuce and carrots. The farm uses workers from the UPA (Union des producteurs agricoles du Québec). For the most part, the UPA workers were Haïtian. "The Centre Maraîcher also hired foreign workers of Mexican origin, who lived in buildings separate from all the others." This case is one of racial discrimination, segregation, housing standards including heating and access to water. The Whites had a cafeteria where which the Blacks were not allowed to go near. Very clean, with ovens and refrigerators, heating, coffee machines, vending machines... The Blacks, about 96 of them, had a small shack, located far away from the other buildings. Very small, extremely dirty no hooks, no changing rooms, no lock on the single room, therefore no privacy, the refrigerators were extremely dirty and broken, two microwaves, one broken, one too dirty to use. No material to clean; they would wipe off the dirt from the ground with cardboard. No running water, therefore no sink, no showers and no toilets. No soap. A hose outside, but only cold water, and the workers would stay until november. 3 chemical toilets (porta-potties) located outside, "filled to the top" and "disgustingly dirty". Some Haïtians tried to enter the cafeteria to use the microwave: "You don`t belong here. This is for whites" and "You Blacks are pigs, you go there" they were told. A1 - Quebec Human Rights Tribunal,  Y1 - 2005/// ER - TY - RPRT T1 - La situation des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada, 2005 N2 - Les TUAC Canada (le syndicat des Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l’alimentation et du commerce au Canada) aident et défendent les intérêts des travailleurs agricoles migrants dans ce pays depuis le début des années 90. Ce cinquième rapport national annuel aux législateurs fédéraux fait le point sur les conditions de travail et de vie des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada durant 200 A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2005/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2005-rapport-french.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada, 2005 N2 - UFCW Canada (the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Canada) has actively assisted and advocated for migrant agricultural workers in this country since the early 1990s. This fifth annual national report to federal legislators provides continuing information with regard to the working and living conditions for migrant agricultural workers in Canada during 2005. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2005/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2005-national-report-english.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Discrimination raciale dans une ferme A1 - Perreault, Laura-Julie Y1 - 2005/05/27/ JA - La Presse SP - 15 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Des travailleurs saisonniers manifestent contre la discrimination raciale CY - Actualités nationales A1 - La Presse Canadienne,  Y1 - 2005/05/26/ JA - La Presse Canadienne ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Un agriculteur condamné pour discrimination raciale A1 - La Presse Canadienne,  Y1 - 2005/04/19/ JA - La Voix de l'Est SP - 26 ER - TY - CASE T1 - José Olvera-Rivera et Ferme maison rouge inc. A2 - Commission des lésions professionnelles PB - Commission des lésions professionnelles A1 - Commission des lésions professionnelles,  Y1 - 2005/03/08/ UR - http://jurisprudence.canada.globe24h.com/0/0/quebec/commission-des-lesions-professionnelles-du-quebec/2005/03/08/olvera-rivera-re-2005-65562-qc-clp.shtml Y2 - 2014-03-03 J2 - Dossier 231938-72-0404 Dossier CSST 124738576 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - The Exploitation of Migrant Workers In Canada A1 - Kuro5hin,  Y1 - 2005/01/13/ UR - http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/1/13/114947/716 Y2 - 2014-03-28 JA - Kuro5hin ER - TY - CASE T1 - Olvera-Rivera (Re), 2005 CanLII 65562 (QCCLP) A2 - Olvera-Rivera (Re), 2005 CanLII 65562 (QC CLP) Y1 - 2005/// UR - http://canlii.ca/t/24r40 Y2 - 2015-01-09 J2 - José Olvera-Rivera, partie requérante, et Ferme maison rouge inc. (La), partie intéressée (C.L.P., 2005-03-08), SOQUIJ AZ-50298625 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - J4MW Letter to Chief Coroner N2 - As a collective, Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is strongly urging you in your capacity as Chief Coroner of Ontario to grant the request of both the Peart family as well as the community to a coroner's inquest into the death of migrant farm worker Ned Livingston Peart. A1 - Justicia for Migrant Workers,  Y1 - 2004/12/21/ UR - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/press_new.htm Y2 - 2011-06-21 T3 - Justice For Migrant Workers ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Migrant Worker's Family Demands Coroner's Inquest into Workplace Death N2 - The family of Ned Livingston Peart, a migrant worker killed on the job in August 2002, is demanding from the Chief Coroner of Ontario, a coroner's inquest into his death. Since the incident, members of the Peart family have attempted to clarify the circumstances of his workplace death but have had their requests for a coroner's inquest denied. A press conference has been called to demand justice. A1 - Justicia for Migrant Workers,  Y1 - 2004/12/20/ UR - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/press_new.htm Y2 - 2011-06-21 T3 - Justice For Migrant Workers ER - TY - RPRT T1 - La situation des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada, 2004 N2 - Au cours des dernières années, les TUAC Canada (le syndicat des Travailleurs et travailleuses unis de l’alimentation et du commerce) ont fourni des services de soutien, de l’information, de la formation et des services d’assistance judiciaire à des milliers de travailleurs agricoles migrants qui travaillent au Canada dans le cadre du Programme canadien des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers (PCTAS). Les TUAC Canada gèrent cinq centres régionaux de soutien pour travailleurs migrants. Quatre sont situés en Ontario notamment à Leamington, Simcoe, Bradford et Virgil; et un à St-Rémi (Québec). Grâce aux diverses activités entreprises par ces centres, les TUAC Canada ont compilé des informations et de la documentation sur le PCTAS en tenant compte des points de vue des travailleurs agricoles migrants et du vécu de ces derniers. Ces divers éléments sont exposés en détail dans les pages qui suivent. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2004/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2004-rapport-french.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada, 2004 N2 - Over the past several years, UFCW Canada (the United Food and Commercial Workers union) has delivered support services, information, training, and advocacy to thousands of migrant farm workers working in Canada through the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, or CSAWP. UFCW Canada operates fi ve regional Migrant Worker Support Centres. Four are located in Ontario in Leamington, Simcoe, Bradford, and Virgil, and one is in Québec in St-Rémi. Th rough the work of these centres, UFCW Canada has compiled information and documentation regarding the CSAWP from the migrant farm workers’ perspectives and experiences, elements of which are detailed in the following pages. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2004/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2004-national-report-english.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - ICOMM T1 - Conditions Tough for Canada's Migrant Workers Y1 - 2004/10/11/ UR - http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/conditions-tough-for-canadas-migrant-workers/ Y2 - 2014-04-03 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Les parias du travail saisonnier N2 - Mexico P.Q. Les frontières de la misère A1 - Touzin, Caroline Y1 - 2004/10/02/ JA - La Presse SP - 3 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Justicia Open Statement to Joe Volpe N2 - en members of Justicia for Migrant Workers met this afternoon with federal Immigration Minister Joe Volpe at a conference held at Hart House at the University of Toronto to demand status for the thousands of workers denied residency status due to our unjust laws. Minister Volpe gave his card to organizer Chris Ramsaroop and promised to meet with a delegation from J4MW in the near future. A1 - Justicia for Migrant Workers,  Y1 - 2004/05/25/ UR - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/openstatement.pdf UR - http://www.justicia4migrantworkers.org/press_new.htm Y2 - 2011-06-21 T3 - Justice For Migrant Workers ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Contract labour in Canada and the United States: a critical appreciation of Tanya Basok's Tortillas and Tomatoes: Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada IS - 57-58 A1 - Binford, Leigh Y1 - 2004/// UR - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6971/is_57-58_29/ai_n28246110/ Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies VL - 29 SP - 289 M2 - 289 SP - 289-308 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Post-National Citizenship, Social Exclusion and Migrants Rights: Mexican Seasonal Workers in Canada IS - 1 N2 - In the past few decades, migrants residing in many European & North American countries have benefited from nation-states' extension of legal rights to non-citizens. This development has prompted many scholars to reflect on the shift from a state-based to a more individual-based universal conception of rights & to suggest that national citizenship has been replaced by post-national citizenship. However, in practice migrants are often deprived of some rights. The article suggests that the ability to claim rights denied to some groups of people depends on their knowledge of the legal framework, communications skills, & support from others. Some groups of migrants are deprived of the knowledge, skills, & support required to negotiate their rights effectively because of their social exclusion from local communities of citizens. The article draws attention to the contradiction in two citizenship principles -- one linked to legal rights prescribed by international conventions & inscribed through international agreements & national laws & policies, & the other to membership in a community. Commitment to the second set of principles may negate any achievements made with respect to the first. The article uses Mexican migrants working in Canada as an illustration, arguing that even though certain legal rights have been granted to them, until recently they had been unable to claim them because they were denied social membership in local & national communities. Recent initiatives among local residents & union & human rights activists to include Mexican workers in their communities of citizens in Leamington, Ontario, Canada, are likely to enhance the Mexican workers' ability to claim their rights. 52 References. Adapted from the source document. A1 - Basok, Tanya Y1 - 2004/// UR - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1362102042000178409 Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - Citizenship Studies VL - 8 SP - 47 M2 - 47 SP - 47-64 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - L'envers de la médaille A1 - Lachapelle, Judith Y1 - 2003/12/30/ JA - La Presse SP - 7 ER - TY - RPRT T1 - The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada, 2003 N2 - UFCW Canada – the United Food and Commercial Workers union – presents this third annual report on the status of migrant farm workers in Canada brought here under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program. We have outlined the continuing difficulties migrant farm workers encounter in their living and working conditions. The report includes recommended actions for the federal government to undertake to address and resolve these issue A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2003/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2003-national-report-english.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Whose ‘Choice’? ‘Flexible’women workers in the tomato food chain CY - Edgework Books PB - Edgework Books A1 - Barndt, Deborah Y1 - 2003/// UR - http://www.amazon.com/Sing-Whisper-Shout-Pray-Feminist/dp/1931223076 Y2 - 2011-07-26 T2 - Sing, Whisper, Shout, and Pray: Feminist Visions for a Just World ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Rapport national : Situation des travailleuses et travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada Décembre 2002 N2 - À l’automne 2001, le bureau canadien des Travailleurs agricoles unis (UFWA) a présenté au ministre du Travail du Canada un rapport intitulé Situation des travailleuses et travailleurs agricoles migrants au Canada. Ce rapport contenait une analyse du Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers du gouvernement du Canada et en énumérait les nombreux volets qui se sont révélés inefficaces et qui ne protègent pas adéquatement les droits des travailleurs migrants. Le rapport recommandait que le gouvernement fédéral apporte une série de modifications au programme afin d’en combler les lacunes. Dans l’année qui a suivi la remise de ce rapport, le gouvernement fédéral n’a pris aucune mesure visant à remédier aux nombreux problèmes que rencontrent les travailleurs agricoles migrants ou à combler les lacunes de son programme. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2002/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2002-rapport-french.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - RPRT T1 - Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada 2002 N2 - In the fall of 2001, the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA) Canadian office presented a report on the Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada to the federal Minister of Labour. This report provided an analysis of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers (SAW) program, itemizing the many areas within the program that were ineffective and failed to adequately protect the rights of migrant workers. The report recommended a number of changes the federal government needed to make in order to address and correct the inadequacies of this program. In the year since the report was received, the federal government has taken no action to address the many issues and concerns of migrant farm workers and the inadequacies of its SAW program. A1 - UFCW Canada,  Y1 - 2002/// UR - http://www.ufcw.ca/templates/ufcwcanada/images/awa/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/2002-national-report-english.pdf Y2 - 2011-10-14 T3 - UFCW The Status of Migrant Farm Workers in Canada ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Social and Economic Contradictions of Rural Migrant Contract Labor Between Taxcala, Mexico and Canada IS - 2 A1 - Binford, Leigh Y1 - 2002/// UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/cag.2002.24.2.1/abstract Y2 - 2011-05-27 JA - Culture & Agriculture VL - 24 SP - 1 M2 - 1 SP - 1-19 ER - TY - NEWS T1 - Dans votre assiette - Le cornichon Le petit concombre démasqué Y1 - 2001/08/04/ JA - La Presse SP - 4 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Farmworkers, Nonimmigration Policy, Involuntary Servitude, And A Look At The Sheepherding Industry A1 - Jackson, Kimi Y1 - 2000/// UR - http://www.heinonline.org//HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/chknt76&id=1295&collection=journals&index=journals/chknt Y2 - 2011-09-21 JA - CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW VL - 76 SP - 1271 M2 - 1271 SP - 1271-1301 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Free to be Unfree: Mexican Guest Workers in Canada A1 - Basok, Tanya Y1 - 1999/// JA - Labour, Capital, and Society VL - 32 ER - TY - ICOMM T1 - Racism and Farm Workers in Canada A1 - Stop Racism and Hate Collective,  A1 - Duton, Alan Y1 - 1996/// UR - http://www.stopracism.ca/content/racism-and-farm-workers-canada Y2 - 2011-06-13 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Personal Labour Relations and Ethnicity in Ontario Agriculture N1 - Vic Satzewich CY - Halifax PB - Fernwood Publishing N2 - ed Victor Satzewich A1 - Wall, E Y1 - 1992/// UR - http://www.amazon.ca/Deconstructing-Nation-Immigration-Multiculturalism-Racism/dp/1895686075 Y2 - 2011-05-27 T2 - Deconstructing a Nation: Immigration, Multiculturalism and Racism in '90s Canada ER - TY - LEGAL T1 - Charte québécoise des droits et libertés de la personne A1 - Assemblée Nationale du Québec,  Y1 - 1975/// UR - http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=2&file=/C_12/C12.HTM Y2 - 2011-05-27 VL - L.R.Q., c. C-12 ER - TY - BOOK T1 - A new system of slavery : the export of Indian labour overseas, 1830-1920 N1 - illus. ; 22 cm. CY - London ; New York PB - published for the Institute of Race Relations by Oxford University Press N2 - The first comprehensive historical survey of a hitherto neglected and only partially known migration: the export of Indians to supply the labour needed in producing plantation crops in Mauritius, South and East Africa, Caribbean and other countries. This followed the legal ending of slavery and Professor Tinker shows the many features the two systems had in common. A1 - Tinker, Hugh Y1 - 1974/// ER -