Politics | Farmworkers Rights

2010-09-02: Headlines

• www.nupge.ca: Small victory for exploited migrant farm workers 2010-09-02

  An international campaign by Canadian labour activists has persuaded the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and a major Canadian employer association to stop demanding a $400 deposit from more than 4,000 temporary Guatemalan farm workers employed mainly in Quebec. | The change has come about following pressure from the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada) and the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA).

2010-09-01: Headlines

• PR-USA.net: Quebec Agribusiness Ramps Up 'Exploitation Express' With Honduras Migrants 2010-09-01

  The abuse of migrant workers under TFW program was recently in the news (www.ufcw.ca) after UFCW Canada and community allies launched a campaign to denounce the nefarious living and working conditions of migrant Guatemalan farm workers. For a number of years workers from Guatemala have been brought to Canada under TFW contracts that force them to sign away some of their basic workplace rights to get the job and keep it.

• PR-USA.net: Editors' Choice(f): Quebec Agribusiness Ramps Up 'Exploitation Express' With Honduras Migrants 2010-09-01

  The abuse of migrant workers under TFW program was recently in the news (www.ufcw.ca) after UFCW Canada and community allies launched a campaign to denounce the nefarious living and working conditions of migrant Guatemalan farm workers. For a number of years workers from Guatemala have been brought to Canada under TFW contracts that force them to sign away some of their basic workplace rights to get the job and keep it.

• Atlanta Journal Constitution: Fewer illegal immigrants, but more anti-immigrant fury 2010-09-01

  Many opponents of a comprehensive immigration reform bill €” a plan that would give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship €” base their opposition on th...

• The Namibian: NUNW congress ready to go 2010-09-01

  THE National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) secretary general yesterday held a meeting with affiliated industrial unions’ general secretaries to iron out the contentious issue of this coming weekend’s congress agenda.

2010-08-31: Headlines

• The Packer: Farmworker Justice: OSHA exclusions, discriminatory treatment must end 2010-08-31

  Your report has been sent successfully! | Type the characters you see in the picture below. | Farmworker Justice: OSHA exclusions, dis... | American Trucking Association: Concerned... | From Ted Campbell: More on post default ... | Topping 900 in the discussion group ... | Why you should feel good about huge hike... | Right on! Food stamp discounts for fruit...

• Democracy Now: Slain Latino Journalist Rubén Salazar, Killed 40 Years Ago in Police Attack, Remembered as Champion of Chicano Rights 2010-08-31

  This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution. | Salazar instantly became a martyr for the Chicano civil rights movement and a lasting inspiration for a generation of Latino journalists. Parks, schools, scholarships and a US Postal Service stamp bear his name.

• Galus Australis: Why the AJDS are right to support a limited boycott 2010-08-31

  I€™d like to argue the moral case for supporting a selective boycott of products from the Occupied West Bank. I take the view that it is illegally held territory in which its prior and current non-Jewish inhabitants (Palestinians, whatever their citizenship) live under a form of military rule and control system which completely privileges Jewish settlers and Israeli businesses and abuses human rights.

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