Sentences with phrase «by farm workers»

In 1920, the Palace of the State Government was briefly taken over by farm workers and others from all over the state.

Any future conservative Alberta government would also likely try to reimpose the longstanding unconstitutional limitation on union membership by farm workers included in Bill 6, which was at the heart of the fury against the bill.

El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas (CATA), a Latino - led migrant farm worker organization, will use the grant to survey workers and train them using the We Work with Pesticides curriculum, which was developed by the Farm Worker Health and Safety Institute and approved by the EPA..

Not exact matches

The complaint, obtained by Fortune, accuses workers at Briarwood Farms of first degree and second degree animal cruelty.

A Faccenda spokesman told The Times that an «external vet» was sent to the farm to investigate workers kicking chickens and approved it, described by the spokesman as «shepherding» birds out of the way.

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

When the U.S. ended the bracero program 1964, which had allowed large numbers of Mexicans to work on U.S. farms, neither the wages nor the employment rates of U.S. farm workers rose, according to recent research by economists Michael Clemens, Hannah Postel and me.

FireFly buys its goat milk from seven family farms near the creamery, still makes its cheeses by hand, and has made a firm commitment to paying its workers a living wage.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

They also examine how the rights and privileges of farm workers, including seasonal and temporary foreign workers, conflict with those of their employers, and reveal the barriers many face by being excluded from most statutory employment laws, sometimes in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

In other words, what this statistic shows is that Bill 6 was desperately needed, and that the Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act courageously passed by the Alberta Legislature on Dec. 10, 2015, by the government of Premier Rachel Notley in the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

by adding farm workers to Workman Compensation benefits, stretched credibility.

August 4, 1942 — the Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement is signed by the governments of Mexico and the United States, the first establishing the legalization and control of Mexican migrant workers along America's southern border area

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

Another important California social issue at the time was the effort by migratory farm workers to organize a union and obtain minimal wages and benefits.

To front - load the story by saying people were being treated in animal stalls, and only later point out it was a free clinic held in a county fairground (rural area, large crowd... likely the only suitable place that passed health and safety requirements for such an event), and to not mention that many if not most of those taking advantage of the free medical care were likely farm workers and not here legally... is beyond poor reporting.

Well, I hope you don't wear clothes of different fabric, or farm (or purchase food from a farm) which puts different crops side by side, or mind if I buy your daughter at a decent price (though I don't know the going rate, but I could sure use the worker), or that you don't work on the Sabbath, or eat any kind of shellfish, or get a hair cut, or play football.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

When this man handed you a pamphlet you took it no matter what the subject: the dangers of atomic power plants, the role played by the International Jewish Cartel in the overthrow of friendly governments, the CIA - Contra - cocaine connection, the farm workers» unions, the Jehovah's Witnesses (If You Can Answer These Ten Questions «Yes,» You Have Been SAVED!)

But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed by underpaid Mexican immigrants in the US).

By year 4, more UTZ certified farms provided workers with protective gear (81 % v 35 %) and had access to first aid kits (60 % v 17 %) than non-certified farms.

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

Other workers were hired by family - run Akers Farm, which supplies sweet potatoes to Woolworths and Coles, and rejected suggestions its workers were abused.

On a cattle farm in the desert outside Doha, Qatar, hundreds of cows imported from the Netherlands are led into an airconditioned hall to be milked by Asian workers in orange uniforms.

Chile has traditionally been harvested by hand, a job provided largely in the past by migrant farm workers from Mexico.

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).

Ben & Jerry's has agreed to implement the Milk with Dignity (MD) Program, a multi-year plan created by Migrant Justice in 2014, which aims to improve working conditions of dairy farm workers who supply the milk for the ice cream manufacturer.

Fair Trade guarantees farm workers are paid a fair wage and empowers them to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities.

Paella, a delicious blend of rice, vegetables, seafood, meat and spices, originated as farm laborer's food in Spain — cooked by the workers in the open air with ingredients that were ready at hand.

Noting his work on Indian reservations, in a migrant farm - worker clinic, and in Mali, Peru, and Afghanistan, he wrote, «I can see no reason to shun modern women's healthcare by avoiding evidence - based medicine.»)

Footage released by CNN from Libya showed hundreds of young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned as farm workers.

This technique was developed by Marshall Ganz, a legendary activist and Harvard professor who worked with Cesar Chavez at the United Farm Workers.

In statements released by Schneiderman's campaign, the three lawmakers touted the candidate's work to on gun reforms and efforts to preserve «reproductive freedom,» marriage equality, and farm workers rights.

Gov. Cuomo has said publicly he will not contest a lawsuit filed against him and the state by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which claims the lack of collective bargaining for the state's 60,000 farm workers is unconstitutional.

In a post on the HQ Nigerian Army Facebook page, Col Antigha said the 700 comprised «farmers, fishermen and members of their families who were hitherto held by Boko Haram terrorists as farm workers».

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)».

No fewer than 700 farmers, fishermen and members of their families, who were held captive by Boko Haram terrorists as farm workers have fled the various islands in Lake Chad to Monguno Borno State.

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.

They are asking for support for the New York to pass» the Farm Workers» Fair Labor Practices Act, a bill sponsored by Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan and State Sen. Adriano Espaillat currently under consideration by the state Legislature.»

The issue is clear that farm worker's have very little labor law protections; and this law should be supported by the legislature and Gov. Cuomo.

Have the satisfaction of knowing that modest earnings on Workers» Compensation Insurance by New York Farm Bureau ® support important programs that serve New York farmers every day.

Speaker Silver was joined by Kerry Kennedy, who is also Governor Andrew Cuomo's former wife, and an advocate for farm worker rights.

«These lung function changes are comparable to the effects caused by other occupational risk factors, such as organic dusts in farming and cotton workers.

According to a 6 May «situation report» issued by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Canadian veterinary officials sent an update report to the European Commission with the new information about the farm worker.

The pig herd infected with swine flu in Alberta, Canada, appears not to have been infected by a worker at the farm who had recently returned from Mexico with flu - like symptoms.

The dumbbell went west and the kettlebell went east, but regardless of where you think it might have come from (some people say Russia, some say Mongolia, some the Celtic countries), the kettlebell is most well known for being utilized by Russian farm workers who used them as counter weights for farm equipment.

«Pelle the Conqueror» (opening Friday at the Music Hall) is a great agrarian epic in which landowners and farm workers live side by side in a state of stark and seemingly immutable inequity.

Along with a request that women walking the red carpet at the Golden Globes speak out and raise awareness by wearing black, the initiative includes a legal defense fund, backed by $ 13 million in donations, to help less privileged women — like janitors, nurses, farm and factory workers, waitresses, hotel housekeepers — protect themselves from sexual misconduct and the fallout from reporting it; legislation to penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment, and to discourage the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence victims; and a drive to at long last reach gender parity at studios and talent agencies that reportedly has already begun making headway.

Variety says the film, scripted by Keir Pearson, «depicts Chavez organizing the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his ultimate goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.»

Julian Dennison (Paper Planes, Shopping) plays Ricky Baker, a rebellious, chubby, twelve - year - old foster thug - life wanna - be who ends up dumped by an exasperated social worker (House, Whale Rider) to a childless couple, kind - hearted Bella (Te Wiata, Housebound) and her cynical husband Hec (Neill, Escape Plan) a last - chance effort from the foster placement, out on a remote farm in rural New Zealand.