Sentences with phrase «agricultural workers in»

RAMA is calling special attention to the plight of agricultural workers in B.C.

This underscores the importance of establishing a compelling evidentiary record about the vulnerability of agricultural workers in order for this argument to succeed.

A new study, conducted by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, found that poor agricultural workers in Uganda and Ethiopia have not benefited as much as they should from working on Fairtrade certified farms.

Recently, Mike Lee, director of community programs for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, based in San Francisco, discovered that children of agricultural workers in nearby Monterey County had never seen the ocean, located a mile from their homes.

In addition, students research examples of contemporary slavery — such as child soldiers in Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicated.

Her team is collaborating with researchers in the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Global Health to design and test ways to improve the health of sugarcane workers and other agricultural workers in the region.

So it's not enough that we treat our farmers like dirt, we must create near slave - like conditions for agricultural workers in order to reach those holy grails of «increased productivity» and «greater global competitiveness».

Agricultural workers in particular, including migrants and women, are some of the poorest paid and most exploited workers in the world.

The protest will highlight ongoing human rights abuses faced by the agricultural workers in Mexico who pick tomatoes for the chain.

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These include the H - 1B, common in the tech industry, which can be extended up to six years; the H - 2A, for agricultural workers; and the H - 2B, often used for hospitality and tourism workers.

In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workerIn reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workerin Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

Opened by International Harvester in 1974 to remanufacture diesel engines and engine components for its truck and agricultural and construction equipment dealers, the plant had lost $ 2 million in the most recent fiscal year, and the big question was whether the employees, previously nonunion, would vote to join the Teamsters or the United Auto Workers in an election scheduled for March.

In 2011, including the agricultural sector, nearly 450,000 temporary foreign workers came to Canada, more than doubling the size of the program over the last decade.

These concerns stem in part from the «farm rush» of the 1990s and early 2000s, when agricultural workers from China moved to the fertile land in the Far East along the border.

That changed in 1986, when the H program was split into the H - 2A agricultural and H - 2B non-agricultural temporary worker programs by the Immigration Reform and Control Act, creating the categories still in use today.

The H - 2A was not the first agricultural guest worker program implemented in the United States.

Factory farming and the combine harvester increased labour productivity in the farming sector and reduced the need for agricultural workers.

In 2014, there were 567,077 migrant workers employed in Canada, with migrant farm workers making up 12 per cent of Canada's agricultural workforcIn 2014, there were 567,077 migrant workers employed in Canada, with migrant farm workers making up 12 per cent of Canada's agricultural workforcin Canada, with migrant farm workers making up 12 per cent of Canada's agricultural workforce.

SAP creates more unemployment through the process of privatization, retrenchment of workers, the closing of local industries due to import liberalization, the displacement of small farmers due to foreign subsidized imports and cut in agricultural subsidies such as for fertilizers and water and reduction of marketing facilities.

Malas, who were considerable in number, were mostly agricultural workers like Holeyas in the western India.

The Chattisgarh movement led by Niyogi transcended the question whether industrial workers and peasants or agricultural laborers have the major political or historical precedence in terms of political organization.

Farm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CoWorkers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma Coworkers in northern Sonoma County...

Coming from humble beginnings, Roel had started his career as a baker in Mexico and his wife was an agricultural worker when they entered the United States.

According to expert agricultural psychologists Big Jim and Holly Peña, the addict's loved ones, employers, clergymen, accountants, spouses, chefs, and social workers (not necessarily in that order) should be on the lookout for the following suspicious behavior by the CAP (Chile - Addicted Personality) who exhibits the classic symptoms of PAS (Pungency Addiction Syndrome).

Many of the conference participants — experts and workers in the fields of agricultural research, development, extension, and industry — were already «in the know» that Golden Rice is a new type of rice that contains beta carotene.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

So while AFSA strongly supports the need to recognize agriculture as the priority activity in the Farming Zone, we see a need to offer more flexibility to enable farms to construct suitable dwellings for the rich community of workers needed to manage these systems, where those dwellings are genuinely built in support of agricultural purposes.

Lets be honest with ourselves; ALL Prem players are obscenely overpaid but we can be expected to stomach this obscenity in life (esp when compared to people who do REAL jobs, nurses, bus drivers, agricultural workers etc, etc) ONLY when those fortunate players bust a gut, every game, for the club who employs them.

Trained Agricultural extension and other allied workers in a «Feed Ghana» program that will provide extensive support to farmers along the agriculture value chains.

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers» Scheme (SAWS) operated a yearly quota of 21,000 for seasonal workers from Bulgaria and later Romania until it ended in DecembeWorkers» Scheme (SAWS) operated a yearly quota of 21,000 for seasonal workers from Bulgaria and later Romania until it ended in Decembeworkers from Bulgaria and later Romania until it ended in December 2013.

In an article linking trade barriers to borders, economist Jochen Lorentzen argued that the European free trade zone had diminished agricultural trade with Africa, contributing to losses in the sector for African workers and farmerIn an article linking trade barriers to borders, economist Jochen Lorentzen argued that the European free trade zone had diminished agricultural trade with Africa, contributing to losses in the sector for African workers and farmerin the sector for African workers and farmers.

The change in the nature of the workforce employed in mining, decline in the number of manufacturing workers in the iron triangle cities, as well the expansion of Grey's boundaries into more agricultural districts, has changed the political complexion of Grey.

David Jones and Dominic Grieve voted to scrap the Agricultural Wages Board in England and now they're trying to block a Bill that will protect the wages and conditions of 13,000 farm workers in Wales.

Many farmers across the East End of Long Island are hoping their congressman will push for immigration reform in order to stabilize the local agricultural industry's workforce and allow them to hire enough workers.

A member of the Agricultural Workers Union is worried about the declining investment in the Agric sector.

State Senator Adriano Espaillat has styled himself as a champion of agricultural laborers in New York — but fueling his bid for Congress are donations from a sugarcane plantation - owning clan with an international reputation for mistreating workers.

At a meeting chaired by Nick Clegg, the Environment Secretary — the Right - winger Owen Paterson — explained how he planned to reduce immigration pressures by abolishing the Agricultural Workers Scheme, which allowed Eastern European workers to come to the UK to do unpopular hard jobs such as picking crops in the Workers Scheme, which allowed Eastern European workers to come to the UK to do unpopular hard jobs such as picking crops in the workers to come to the UK to do unpopular hard jobs such as picking crops in the fields.

These events follow on a letter providing detailed recommendations on protecting junior researchers that the union for postdocs — the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW Local 5810 — sent in January to the office of the president of the University of California and the chair of the University of California Academic Senate.

That's when an Italian doctor in Brazil reported the case of a 45 - year - old agricultural worker with growths in his mouth.

That sentence, which appears above the signature line, states, «I authorize Postdoctoral Researchers Organize (PRO / UAW) International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America to represent me in collective bargaining.»

Agricultural workers, whose hands are often heavily callused or full of sores, as well as masonry workers or bricklayers, who handle heavy rough materials all day long, are two groups that often have the most difficulty in providing a clear fingerprint.

In Europe laws that limit the use of agricultural chemicals and the exposure of human workers to such chemicals have already made lettuce - weeding robots competitive with human labor.

This is because agricultural labor is both scarce and expensive in Japan, where the average ag worker is over 70 years old.

Presently artists represent a larger group in the U.S. work force than the legal profession, medical doctors, or agricultural workers.

The radio plays a very important role in organizing farmers, particularly in rural areas, as do numerous agricultural extension workers who carry out education - information communication activities.

This subsection shall be administered in coordination with other programs serving migrant agricultural workers and seasonal farmworkers, including programs under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education ACT of 1965, section 311 of the Economic Opportunity ACT of 1964, the Migrant * Health ACT, and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration ACT of 1963.

For example, some oil field or agricultural workers may have riskier jobs than accountants in a downtown office.

While the number of agricultural workers has diminished by half since 1946 and more than 300,000 small family farms have disappeared since 1979, agriculture production in the United States has grown 5 % each year since 1990.

The impact of ozone on agricultural workers is also important in its own right.

This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts.