Sentences with phrase «because farm workers»

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I am imagining an NDP press conference where they introduce an injured farm worker who has no benefits because the UDP repealed them.

There are growing concerns, however, that the company's success is partly based on trading practices that squeeze the margins of suppliers, farmers and workers, and have a negative impact on local shops and the environment because farmers are unable — or unwilling — to make changes to their farming practices.2

Espada is reportedly pushing for a joint statement with Sampson on the farm workers bill — and perhaps also on a package of housing bills that housing advocates dislike because they view them as too pro-landlord — but some people around the Brooklyn lawmaker worry it will look too much like he's (yet again) getting worked over by the wily majority leader and are balking.

People from all around New York State came to the rally — from Queens, where some say it would ease their work commute, to Rochester, where one farm worker and father says he feared deportation when he was pulled over, but was forced to drive illegally because he didn't have a license.

Studies of farm laborers who worked with the compound showed rates of certain cancers double to eight times the national average, but those exposures were intermittent and not exclusive, because workers handle many types of chemicals.

I offered to volunteer at a local farm because I heard that they repaid workers with a week's worth of produce.

Financially, this makes a lot of sense as you can take a majority of profits and keep it for yourself, whilst you send pennies back to your workers on your own farm because you're a terrible boss and your employees know it, too.

They also held that the s. 15 claim was premature because it was still too early to assess whether the AEPA inappropriately disadvantaged farm workers.

Therefore, the s. 7 rights of farm workers are arguably breached by their exclusion from the LRC because they are a marginalized occupational group whose basic human dignity demands protection.

UFCW Canada argued the section of the Code violated freedom of association rights under both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms because it denies agricultural workers employed on farms that have three or less employees, the right to join a union and bargain successfully.

It's probably because I'm from the same background as many gaming workers (many gold farm owners were former gaming workers.)