7 January 2015, Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — An Indonesian expatriates union announced that it would not work with recruitment offices from the Kingdom and only cooperate with larger recruitment companies in order to preserve Indonesian expatriates’ rights, Makkah daily reported. Sources revealed that the union’s stance is an unofficial one because the Indonesian government did […]
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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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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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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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