Sentences with phrase «migrant farm workers»

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.

Golden, earth - toned colors and wide, flowing brush strokes lend depth and honesty to the history and struggle of migrant farm workers in California.

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

After six days of evidence, including testimony by several expert witnesses, the HRTO concluded that the exclusion of migrant farm workers from the mandatory inquest requirement in the Act does not result in substantive inequality.

Cesar Chavez (PG - 13 for profanity and violence) Reverential biopic pays tribute to the life of the soft - spoken, Chicano labor leader (Michael Pena) who dedicated his career to securing a living wage for migrant farm 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 workforce.

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

A new exhibition chronicling the lives of contemporary migrant farm workers will be on display in the Arbuckle Gallery at the Pacific Hotel from...

The portrait and landscape photographic series documents the lives of migrant farm workers throughout South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi.

He often provides free legal services to Spanish - speaking migrant farm workers who could otherwise not afford legal representation.

His only «job» was gathering fruit — an occupation somewhat like that of present - day migrant farm workers.

Along the polluted 18 - Mile Creek in upstate New York, migrant farm worker Oscar Puente said he fishes to put food on his family's table — even though a state advisory warns against consuming any fish there.

For example, if one of my colleagues studying lead levels in the blood of migrant farm workers discovers, in the course of their lab tests, a child with toxic levels of lead, the ruling precludes them from telling the family that their child should see a doctor.

An army of excited cinematographers, production designers, researchers, and, yes, directors was ready, willing, and able to craft luxurious beds of pastness at the drop of a snap - brim hat, drawing from a store of collective expertise to realize extended glimpses of the Dust Bowl, Delancey Street in its heyday, or migrant farm workers on the prairie.

She was accepted in 2002, and two months before starting classes in 2003, she married Oscar Martinez, a descendent of migrant farm workers whom she'd known in an honors math class in junior high in 1992, lost touch with, and then bumped into at a party in 2000.

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..

The grant to Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas will train migrant farm workers in southern New Jersey about steps they can take to better protect their health on the job.»

In 2002, a Jamaican migrant farm worker, Ned Peart, died in after he was crushed by a 1,000 - pound steel bin on the tobacco farm where he worked in Brant County.

Province challenges OHIP coverage to injured migrant workers Injured farm workers could lose OHIP Migrant workers win healthcare extension Injured migrant farm workers win back OHIP Government aims to deny injured seasonal workers health care Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful

During his ten years with CRLA, Ramón served as a staff attorney, managing attorney, Director of CRLA's Migrant Farm Worker Project, and as a regional counsel.

The Tyee also published an op - ed this week by Weiler and Amy Cohen, a Professor at Okanagan College, on how federal labour - migration policy creates vulnerability to sexual violence for women migrant farm workers.

However, even as it dismissed the application, the HRTO made several important findings about the dimensions of precariousness faced by migrant farm workers:

A new exhibition chronicling the lives of contemporary migrant farm workers will be on display in the Arbuckle Gallery at the Pacific Hotel from October 26, 2017 to June 3, 2018.

The bill looks to address issues such as worker protections, overtime pay, public health protection and employer contributions to workers» compensation and unemployment funds and would afford greater rights for over 100,000 migrant farm workers throughout New York State, which boasts a powerful agricultural industry.

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.

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.

Accordingly, the HRTO decided that the exclusion of migrant farm workers from the mandatory inquest requirement does not result in substantive inequality.

At the Buggy Factory Enrico Gomez curated a group show of seven amazing and accomplished artists around the theme of De Colores, which was a song commonly sung during the darkest days of the United Farm Workers Union's attempt to secure justice for migrant farm workers.

Artist Statement «I often listened to NPR during working and driving, and one time there was a story about the plight of migrant farm workers: The really hard work they have...

Montanez was a migrant farm worker in California before becoming a janitor at the Frito - Lay company.

Gary Fanelli claims the world records for the fastest marathons run while costumed as a ghost, a pirate, a teamster, a migrant farm worker and Michael Jackson.

Mission Specialist Jose Hernandez was born in California, into a family of migrant farm workers.

Several were children of migrant farm workers that only attended this school during the planting and / or...

Halvorssen produced The Sugar Babies, [68] a film about human trafficking in the Dominican Republic and the plight of its migrant farm workers.

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.

I started my 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.

«As the proud son of migrant farm workers, I know the sacrifices my parents made so that I could be the first in our family to go to college and my future would be one full of opportunity,» he remarked.

The region also has a large number of migrant farm workers and political refugees from Eastern Europe who have depended on the library system to adapt to American life.

The migrant farm worker deal is still being finalized but surprisingly my non-English titles make up about 1 % of my current sales.

However, a little reflection on the plight of the migrant farm workers (life expectancy 49, annual income for a family of four $ 2,400, poisoning from pesticide in 15 of every 100 workers, death from T.B. and other infectious diseases 260 percent higher than the national average, infant and maternal mortality 125 percent higher, and not even toilets or drinking water in the fields) makes one reluctant to head for the comfort of the car and home.

Born in North Platte, Nebraska to migrant farm workers, Roy De Forest grew up in Yakima, Washington and attended junior college there...

The Bridgehampton Child Care & Recreation Center was born out of tragedy in 1949, when a house fire killed the untended children of migrant farm workers.

Food Justice Southern New Jersey has a large population of migrant farm workers, and for 20 years CATA has provided workers with information about pesticides, how to reduce exposure to harmful chemicals in the workplace, and general safety training.

In addition, migrant farm workers may not be supplied protective gear needed to protect their health or the equipment they do receive is defective.

Parts of our economy are dependent on an immigrant work force for survival — the summer crew at resorts and vacation spots, the migrant farm worker during picking season, and the IT industry — to name a few.