Sentences with phrase «farm workers in»

A third ebook, being compiled by Jennifer Koshan, deals with the rights of farm workers in Alberta and will be released before ABlawg goes on hiatus for the holidays.

Comic employment contracts for farm workers in South Africa.

Due to the large amount of factory and farm workers in Indiana, the population here is exposed to higher than average workplace accident rates.

study would require 728,000 famers — before we've even thought about cereal, bread, dairy and meat production, whereas there are just half a million farm workers in the UK.

She upsets one of documentary's central tenants, however, by photographing farm workers in southern and eastern Africa holding the materials and tools of their trades.

Valley Fever was originally diagnosed in a group of farm workers in the San Juaquin Valley of California.

I can recall (unfortunately, only hazily) a period when I was a boy, when she spent weekends picketing the local A&P, supporting the United Farm Workers in their grape boycott.

At the time, Weppner taught English Language Learners and migrant farm workers in Austin, Texas, many of whom were the first non-English speakers allowed to attend public school.

John David Arnold founded PPEP TEC's parent organization, Portable, Practical Education Preparation (PPEP), Inc., in 1967, so he could teach English, and basic and general practical education to Bracero farm workers in southern Arizona.

Financed by the U.S. Education Department, the report is based on a three - year ethnographic study of the children of migrant farm workers in nine states.

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.»

Biggest mysteries Kidney disease: Farm workers in Central America, India and Sri Lanka are dying in staggering numbers from a rare kidney disease, with pesticides fingered as a potential culprit.

Farm workers in southern India are dying from chronic kidney disease, and no one knows what is causing it.

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.

Senate Democrats on Thursday renwed their push to have a bill come to the floor that would provide for strengthened labor protections for farm workers in New York.

Artist Victor Cartagena worked with United Farm Workers in Salina for this collection of works exploring the systemic injustice of food production through the stories of migrant workers.

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 County...

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

In nine essays, contributors to Farm Workers in Western Canada place this legislation in context.

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. dollar.

Seeking a position as a farm worker in a well - reputed company where I can use my strong leadership skills and my ability to take care of the livestock and poultry within a farm.

Not exact matches

Duncan notes that foreign workers both start far more businesses than Americans, and that they're needed to avoid potentially crippling labor shortages in industries from farming to construction to tech.

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.

Perth - based marine farming company Cell Aquaculture has cancelled a deal with Noble Rate to buy its Roxy Casino in Cambodia after it failed to source skilled workers and keep up with ongoing reporting procedures.

Activists also plan an overnight vigil in Phoenix, a farm workers demonstration outside Miami and a White House rally.

The tea farm only employs women, pays them 36 percent above the industry standard and, to give you a sense of how dire worker conditions in the tea industry are, they can go home at night.

For instance, whereas many consumer - products companies would employ rank - and - file workers in sales and marketing, Baker has farmed out most of those functions to brokers and outside strategists.

As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.

Case Farms managers said that the lines in Canton run about 35 birds a minute, but workers at other Case Farms plants told me that their lines run as fast as 45 birds a minute.

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.

At a solar farm in North Carolina, workers are bracing for the effect of a new tariff on imported solar cells and modules.

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

Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.

Bill 6, the government of Alberta's contentious farm workers» safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years.

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 dIn 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 din the face of huge — and when it came to its political opponents, hugely dishonest — opposition was the right thing to do.

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.

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.

As Ronald A. Wells recounts in the Journal of Presbyterian History, i n 1966 the United Farm Workers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm workFarm Workers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm wWorkers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm workfarm workersworkers.

Recognize that men are enslaved on fishing boats to farm shrimp, kids are harvesting chocolate, and that factory workers in China are not being paid for the stuff you're buying on the cheap at your local discount store.

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.

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.

Using migrant farm workers at wages far in excess of their normal rate of pay in their own country is a major flaw labor practices.

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

The Nicaragua Hot - line from Witness for Peace dated February 1, 1990 contained the following headings: CONTRAS KIDNAP 56 WORKERS FROM PRIVATE COFFEE FARM IN JINOTEGA; CONTRAS KILL TWO FARMERS IN CHONTALES; CONTRAS KILL MAN AND 11 - YEAR - OLD BOY IN CHONTALES; CONTRAS KIDNAP FOUR NEAR LA CONCORDIA;

Essentially they are the ones who are not strong enough to be advocates for themselves: prisoners, very old and very poor people, household workers, most people who live in Third World countries, retarded children and adults, schoolchildren, immigrants, farm workers, unemployed persons, the institutionalized mentally ill, sometimes women, sometimes gays.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

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!)

In 1981, however, Gecan and EBC took on board an associate, former United Farm Worker organizer Stephen Roberson, who is black.

When I learned of the horrific violence and cruelty that billions of animals endure each year to satisfy our tastebuds (not to mention the abuses and mistreatment that factory farm workers endure in order to ensure corporate profit, from being forced to defecate in their pants to operating dangerous equipment without training), I knew that going vegan was the only way for me to live in a manner that was consistent with my values.