13 October 2014 From Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (Canada) on the reintroduction of legislation to guard against migrant labour recruitment abuses in the province of Ontario, Canada: Thanks to pressure from workers and the public, the Ontario government has re-introduced legislation that will make some improvements to the working conditions of workers including migrant […]
UFCW Canada has mounted a campaign in response to allegations that migrant farmworkers are being blacklisted from being able to return for work through the Canada-Mexico government-to-government recruitment process. These workers are being blacklisted from returning to British Columbia, Canada for voicing support for unionization and collective bargaining. The evidence includes leaked documents that indicate
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26 August 2014, The Times of India On April 24, 2014, during a time of almost daily media reports of employers abusing the temporary foreign worker program (TFWP), CBC News released audio of a leaked internal McDonald’s Canada telephone conference in which its chief executive officer stated “… the fact of the matter is we’re
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UFCW Canada, 2011 This annual Report was compiled [by UFCW Canada] to educate about the draconian federal Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP) and the genuine human cost that continues to scar Canada’s reputation internationally. More importantly, the TFWP continues to be a dark, painful and dreary road wrought with abuse, exploitation and utter lack of
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In 2013, the Canadian Council for Refugees published a series of report cards on the treatment of migrant workers in Canada by the national and provincial governments. Each of these report cards highlights abuses in the system of recruitment, alongside other egregious rights violations and other issues affecting migrant workers in Canada. Visit the CCR
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Employer-Recruiter Co-Liability Now is a campaign of Migrant Workers Rights-Canada. The campaign calls for employer-recruiter co-responsibility in case of abuse, which is necessary to minimize servitude of migrant workers. See reference to the campaign on the Migrant Workers Rights Canada website.
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31 July 2014, Colin Perkel, Global News TORONTO – Allowing Canadian farmers to choose whether they want men or women from Mexico to work for them as seasonal agricultural workers amounts to gender discrimination, a prominent union is arguing. In a complaint this week, the United Food and Commercial Workers union is calling on the
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27 July 2014, Jamaica Observer The maximum recruitment age limit for the Overseas Farm Workers Programme has been adjusted from 40 to 45 years. Making the announcement on Friday, Labour and Social Security Minister Derrick Kellier said the adjustment is as a result of the recognition that there are many very able-bodied people over the previous
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24 July 2014, Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star A husband and wife who own two chain restaurants in Labrador have launched a constitutional challenge against Ottawa’s move to keep them from hiring foreign workers and place their businesses on an online blacklist. This is the first legal action against the federal government’s revamped temporary foreign workers
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25 March 2014, Leader-Post The Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program (SINP) is a made-in-Saskatchewan program that began as a pilot project in 1998 and is operated under an agreement with Citizenship and Immigration Canada. Success of the program is not only shown in numbers, but also by the many immigrants’ and their employers’ success stories. Westcan
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