Sentences with phrase «farm workers who»

This includes liquor servers for whom the minimum wage is $ 1.25 less at $ 10.10 per hour, and farm workers who hand harvest fruits, berries and vegetables for whom there is no hourly minimum wage, only minimum piece rates.

Andrew Lokan and Michael Fenrick are representing three migrant farm workers who are trying to increase the constitutional protections afforded to workers employed in Ontario through the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program.

My thoughts move to my patients — children with asthma and elderly patients with underlying lung problems, as well as the young firefighters, construction, and farm workers who have to work long days outside.

There is a huge range in people's susceptability to whatever it is that is coming from the turbines; for example wind farm workers who have thousands of times the exposure of «affected people» are almost always unaffected.

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.

We also know that farm workers who are exposed to roundup have higher rates of miscarriage.

Those affected, he says, were farm workers who had given medicine to pigs orally, bathed them or cut their teeth.

Organic food lovers will appreciate the fact that the cotton yarn used to make all of Estella's infant toy rattles and baby clothes are GOTS certified, which means that it is grown with minimal pesticides and chemicals so the end product is safe for the kids wearing the clothes or playing with the toys, and the farm workers who handle the raw materials and the environment is spared of toxic chemical run offs.

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.

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.

I am imagining an NDP press conference where they introduce an injured farm worker who has no benefits because the UDP repealed them.

The farm worker who became the suspected «index case» of this outbreak in pigs returned from Mexicali, Mexico, on 12 April and went back to the farm on 14 April.

The agency suspects that a farm worker who returned to Canada from Mexico on 12 April and went back to work 2 days later infected the pigs.

A farm worker who traveled to Mexicali, Mexico, returned to Canada on 12 April and apparently infected a herd in Alberta.

im a shy farm worker who enjoys: going out for a drink at the local, watching films, spending time with family, and many other things.

Terence Davies's adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbons's novel, first published in 1932, stars Agyness Deyn as Chris, a Scottish farm worker who sees family trauma merge into global catastrophe as the first world war devastates her village.

In the director's prized unrelenting style, the documentary follows a farm worker who dies after suffering from Alzheimer's for several years.

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A review of the farm's pest control records flagged an ongoing rodent infestation, with rodents, dead carcasses and baby mice observed, along with workers who weren't following proper sanitary practices.

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.

Some who profited from the exploitation of farm - workers expressed deep concern for those who would be put out of work.

However, labor is now organizing farm workers and janitors, who are truly part of the proletariat.

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.

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

«Whatever your ethics or religion, it's just good business to treat the workers well,» he told me, as we toured the neat, clean, well - maintained barracks that house 480 seasonal workers on the farm at harvest time, most of them very poor Nicaraguan families who come into Costa Rica for a few months each year.

Buying organic makes sense for the health of the earth, farm workers, and the health of your family... But if you're pinching pennies (and who isn't these days?)

then on the other side, pictures of the food we wanted to be serving, the all organic, locally grown, politcally correct fruits and vegetables grown on the worker - owned co-op farm where everyone had great health care benefits, and the free range, non-corn-fed animals who never had an unhappy day in their lives until they were turned into school lunches.

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

In a statement, New York Farm Bureau President Dean Norton, a Batavia dairy farmer, said exempting the agriculture industry would make it difficult to find quality workers, who would likely go to other industries to find higher - paying work.

The dairy farmer, John Collins, who attended the news conference with Cuomo, said that armed officers raided his farm in Rome, N.Y., last week to arrest one of his workers.

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».

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.

Mr. Agyeman who has been farming for 28 years has farms that employ 205 workers, both casual and permanent.

Members of the New York State Laborers Organizing Fund on Wednesday blasted the hiring of out - of - state workers who were not paid a prevailing wage to construct a wind farm in Lewis County.

Workers in the formal sector, who are desirous of venturing into farming, now have the opportunity to do so with the launch of the Virtual Farmer programme.

Workers in the formal sector, who are desirous of venturing into farming, now have the opportunity to do so with...

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

They're in gyms, at the beach, and increasingly, on the farm.One strain of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) known as CC398 has been rapidly spreading through poultry and pig farms, infecting people who work with the animals around the world (up to 26.5 percent of farm workers sampled in the Neatherlands), and popping up in nearly half of all meat sampled in the U.S.

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.

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.

«Finally,» said Kristen Boyles, who handled the lawsuit for the groups, which included United Farm Workers, Pesticide Action Network North America and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

A revelatory, muscular debut from first - time British director Francis Lee, God's Own Country took us into a tough, Lawrentian rural world, where the last thing we expected would be a burgeoning romance between moody, «mardy arse» Johnny Saxby (Josh O'Connor) and removed Romanian worker Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), who comes to help out on Johnny's almost scratch - subsistence family farm.

Then there are Andrew Garfield (Breathe) as advocate Robin Cavendish, one of the longest - living polio survivors in Britain; Benedict Cumberbatch (The Current War) as electricity titan Thomas Edison; Jason Clarke (Mudbound) as Henry McAllan, a city worker who relocates his family to a rural farm post-World War II; Hugh Jackman (The Greatest Showman) as P.T. Barnum; and, less likely, James Franco (The Disaster Artist), completely losing himself in a Method turn as failed filmmaker - turned - cult icon Tommy Wiseau.

The narrative of the film focuses on an intrepid and highly lauded group of tomato pickers from Southern Florida — the Coalition of Immokalee Workers or CIW — who are revolutionizing farm labor.

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.

As for Peña and Luna, this will mark the second collaboration between the two after collaborating in 2014 on Cesar Chavez about the civil rights leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers Union.

Dolores: This documentary directed by Peter Bratt takes a look at Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez and is still active today at age 87.

The school is named after the Mexican - American labor leader who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America.

They studied the history of the farm - worker movement and learned about the daily struggles of children just like themselves who spend their days picking strawberries instead of going to school and playing with friends.

Parent Revolution's organizing director is Pat DeTemple, a lawyer who worked for Service Employees Local 1199 on the East Coast, for the United Farm Workers before that, and was an organizer for President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign.

Weppner began her career 44 years ago, teaching kindergarten to recent immigrant students, including the children of migrant farm workers, who had previously not been allowed to attend public schools in Texas.