Sentences with phrase «of agricultural workers in»

RAMA is calling special attention to the plight of agricultural workers in B.C.

This underscores the importance of establishing a compelling evidentiary record about the vulnerability of agricultural workers in order for this argument to succeed.

Recently, Mike Lee, director of community programs for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, based in San Francisco, discovered that children of agricultural workers in nearby Monterey County had never seen the ocean, located a mile from their homes.

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In reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workerIn reality, a scene set on farmers» fields across the country should show that a great deal of agricultural work in Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workerin Canada is done by racialized minorities, both Canadian and temporary foreign workers.

In 2011, including the agricultural sector, nearly 450,000 temporary foreign workers came to Canada, more than doubling the size of the program over the last decade.

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.

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.

SAP creates more unemployment through the process of privatization, retrenchment of workers, the closing of local industries due to import liberalization, the displacement of small farmers due to foreign subsidized imports and cut in agricultural subsidies such as for fertilizers and water and reduction of marketing facilities.

The Chattisgarh movement led by Niyogi transcended the question whether industrial workers and peasants or agricultural laborers have the major political or historical precedence in terms of political organization.

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 CoWorkers 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 Coworkers in northern Sonoma County...

Agricultural workers in particular, including migrants and women, are some of the poorest paid and most exploited workers in the world.

According to expert agricultural psychologists Big Jim and Holly Peña, the addict's loved ones, employers, clergymen, accountants, spouses, chefs, and social workers (not necessarily in that order) should be on the lookout for the following suspicious behavior by the CAP (Chile - Addicted Personality) who exhibits the classic symptoms of PAS (Pungency Addiction Syndrome).

Many of the conference participants — experts and workers in the fields of agricultural research, development, extension, and industry — were already «in the know» that Golden Rice is a new type of rice that contains beta carotene.

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).

So it's not enough that we treat our farmers like dirt, we must create near slave - like conditions for agricultural workers in order to reach those holy grails of «increased productivity» and «greater global competitiveness».

So while AFSA strongly supports the need to recognize agriculture as the priority activity in the Farming Zone, we see a need to offer more flexibility to enable farms to construct suitable dwellings for the rich community of workers needed to manage these systems, where those dwellings are genuinely built in support of agricultural purposes.

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers» Scheme (SAWS) operated a yearly quota of 21,000 for seasonal workers from Bulgaria and later Romania until it ended in DecembeWorkers» Scheme (SAWS) operated a yearly quota of 21,000 for seasonal workers from Bulgaria and later Romania until it ended in Decembeworkers from Bulgaria and later Romania until it ended in December 2013.

The change in the nature of the workforce employed in mining, decline in the number of manufacturing workers in the iron triangle cities, as well the expansion of Grey's boundaries into more agricultural districts, has changed the political complexion of Grey.

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.

Many farmers across the East End of Long Island are hoping their congressman will push for immigration reform in order to stabilize the local agricultural industry's workforce and allow them to hire enough workers.

A member of the Agricultural Workers Union is worried about the declining investment in the Agric sector.

State Senator Adriano Espaillat has styled himself as a champion of agricultural laborers in New York — but fueling his bid for Congress are donations from a sugarcane plantation - owning clan with an international reputation for mistreating workers.

These events follow on a letter providing detailed recommendations on protecting junior researchers that the union for postdocs — the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, UAW Local 5810 — sent in January to the office of the president of the University of California and the chair of the University of California Academic Senate.

That's when an Italian doctor in Brazil reported the case of a 45 - year - old agricultural worker with growths in his mouth.

That sentence, which appears above the signature line, states, «I authorize Postdoctoral Researchers Organize (PRO / UAW) International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America to represent me in collective bargaining.»

Her team is collaborating with researchers in the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Global Health to design and test ways to improve the health of sugarcane workers and other agricultural workers in the region.

Agricultural workers, whose hands are often heavily callused or full of sores, as well as masonry workers or bricklayers, who handle heavy rough materials all day long, are two groups that often have the most difficulty in providing a clear fingerprint.

In Europe laws that limit the use of agricultural chemicals and the exposure of human workers to such chemicals have already made lettuce - weeding robots competitive with human labor.

In addition, students research examples of contemporary slavery — such as child soldiers in Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicateIn addition, students research examples of contemporary slavery — such as child soldiers in Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicatein Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicatein the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicated.

This subsection shall be administered in coordination with other programs serving migrant agricultural workers and seasonal farmworkers, including programs under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education ACT of 1965, section 311 of the Economic Opportunity ACT of 1964, the Migrant * Health ACT, and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration ACT of 1963.

A new study, conducted by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, found that poor agricultural workers in Uganda and Ethiopia have not benefited as much as they should from working on Fairtrade certified farms.

While the number of agricultural workers has diminished by half since 1946 and more than 300,000 small family farms have disappeared since 1979, agriculture production in the United States has grown 5 % each year since 1990.

The impact of ozone on agricultural workers is also important in its own right.

This paper assesses the impact of pollution on worker productivity by relating exogenous daily variations in ozone with productivity of agricultural workers as recorded under piece rate contracts.

Agricultural productivity Women perform over half of all agricultural work in India, and the agricultural sector employs 75 % of all female workers in Agricultural productivity Women perform over half of all agricultural work in India, and the agricultural sector employs 75 % of all female workers in agricultural work in India, and the agricultural sector employs 75 % of all female workers in agricultural sector employs 75 % of all female workers in the country.

• Agricultural workers toil under some of the most dangerous conditions of employment with 39.5 fatalities for every 100,000 employees in 2008.

In Zimbabwe, the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers Union of Zimbabwe (GAPWUZ), protects laborers from abuse.

Heavily altered climatic cycles have a crippling effect on the livelihood of farmers and already marginalized agricultural workers, as well as upon the availability and security of food in the region.

In Ontario (Attorney General) v. Fraser, the SCC ruled Ontario's Agricultural Employees Protection Act did not violate charter rights because it mandated employers to negotiate «in good faith» with their employees, despite the fact that the law does not protect the right of agricultural workers to strike or bargain collectivelIn Ontario (Attorney General) v. Fraser, the SCC ruled Ontario's Agricultural Employees Protection Act did not violate charter rights because it mandated employers to negotiate «in good faith» with their employees, despite the fact that the law does not protect the right of agricultural workers to strike or bargain cAgricultural Employees Protection Act did not violate charter rights because it mandated employers to negotiate «in good faith» with their employees, despite the fact that the law does not protect the right of agricultural workers to strike or bargain collectivelin good faith» with their employees, despite the fact that the law does not protect the right of agricultural workers to strike or bargain cagricultural workers to strike or bargain collectively.

The HRTO held that Mr. Peart had satisfied the first step of the Kapp test by demonstrating that s. 10 (5) of the Act has a disproportionate impact on foreign workers in Ontario under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), who are identified by prohibited grounds of discrimination, specifically citizenship anworkers in Ontario under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP), who are identified by prohibited grounds of discrimination, specifically citizenship anWorkers Program (SAWP), who are identified by prohibited grounds of discrimination, specifically citizenship and race.

Some were eager to leave based on the hope of regaining control of British farming and now as Parliament sets out to implement Article 50, farmers and agricultural workers await on the changes in law.

More work needs to be done, but as of January 15, 2018, the following changes are in effect for all workers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers Program workers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers ProAgricultural Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers Program Workers Program (SAWP) and the agricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers Proagricultural stream of the low - skilled Temporary Foreign Workers Program Workers Program (TFWP):

While the number of migrant workers currently exceeds 200,000, live - in caregivers under the Live - In Caregivers Program (LCP), agricultural workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and beworkers currently exceeds 200,000, live - in caregivers under the Live - In Caregivers Program (LCP), agricultural workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and benefitin caregivers under the Live - In Caregivers Program (LCP), agricultural workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and benefitIn Caregivers Program (LCP), agricultural workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights aagricultural workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and beworkers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights aAgricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and beWorkers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and beworkers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and beWorkers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and benefitin terms of their rights and benefits.

The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (formerly the Coalition for Change) is comprised of various advocacy and community groups, unions, workers and community members, aimed at improving working conditions and fighting for better protections for live - in caregivers, seasonal agricultural workers and other temporary foreign wWorkers Alliance for Change (formerly the Coalition for Change) is comprised of various advocacy and community groups, unions, workers and community members, aimed at improving working conditions and fighting for better protections for live - in caregivers, seasonal agricultural workers and other temporary foreign wworkers and community members, aimed at improving working conditions and fighting for better protections for live - in caregivers, seasonal agricultural workers and other temporary foreign wworkers and other temporary foreign workersworkers.

The Ontario legislature is not required to provide a particular form of collective bargaining rights to agricultural workers, in order to secure the effective exercise of their associational rights.

EPFNA banned recruiters fees and seizure of documents from live - in caregivers but left out seasonal agricultural workers, and those in the temporary foreign worker low skilled program.

It can be argued that the exclusion of agricultural workers from the WCA results in diminished quality and speed of health care, and other services that are provided by the WCB.

When this is coupled with long delays in the public health system for more serious injuries, it can be argued that agricultural workers experience both physical and psychological detriment as a result of the exclusion of mandatory WCB coverage.

In this case the protection of the financial interests of all agricultural industries is grossly disproportionate to the potential life threatening physical and psychological harm caused to agricultural workers by the exclusion from the WCA.

The Alberta Court of Appeal in Baier v Alberta, 2006 ABCA 137 at para 56, also appears to have accepted that agricultural workers may be a protected group under s. 15 (1).