Sentences with phrase «with migrant workers»

While the government argues this is an important step in deterring rulebreakers, lawyers who work with migrant workers say the effort barely scrapes the surface.

«The tools the students developed can be useful resources for young people wanting to answer common legal questions, for students and volunteers looking for answers to common questions, for people wanting to know where to find free legal services, and for those working with migrant workers in the region.

We are urging Ontario's government to sit down with migrant workers and update labour laws and other legislation.

The challenges faced by produce growers revolve more around labor, which often accounts for half of a farm's expenses and has the problem of shortages, particularly with migrant workers and skilled tasks: «Farmers can be hesitant to invest in growing, watering, and raising a crop if there's uncertainly about having enough workers to harvest it.»

With Migrant Workers in Short Supply, a Farmer Looks to MachinesScores of Jim Bittner's cherry trees are now just heaps of roots and sticks, piled in his fields here along Route 18.

During World War II, Mr. Smith worked with migrant workers for the federal Farm Security Administration in Kern County, where he met and married June Meyers, a social worker who died in 1958.

And if you are in the lowest paid kind of work then, unlike everyone else, you may well be in competition for wages with some migrant workers.

A minister with migrant workers could be called to a metropolitan council of churches; involved local pastors could move to denominational commissions (and help create UTC) More than one seminary president ascribes his organizational skills to Alinsky training.

Those working to eliminate racism often tend to think that anyone combating sexism is wasting her time on trivialities; antimilitarists may wonder how anyone can bother with migrant workers when our countries have stockpiled enough ammunition to destroy the world 435 times.

Not exact matches

THE use of migrant workers to bolster the workforce in Western Australia is becoming more commonplace, with a 12 per cent increase in the number of temporary visa holders in the state.

«Migrant workers are a very elastic part of the labor pool that aren't captured anywhere (in official statistics),» said Julia Wang, an economist with HSBC in Hong Kong.

While Hungary may be concerned about migrants, economists say ageing Europe could well do with an influx of young, eager workers.

After working with her for 18 months, I was proficient enough in the language to do volunteer personal - finance counseling at a nonprofit for migrant workers.

Vice has documented migrant worker abuses in Dubai, won acclaim for a documentary while embedded with Islamic State and garnered widespread attention when it took former National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman to North Korea.

But the hukou system often broke down when confronted with China's mass urbanization in recent decades, which saw hundreds of millions of migrant workers move into metropolises despite poor access to housing and social services.

In the area of Human Rights, Equity and Diversity (HRED) he guides national strategies on Diversity and Inclusion, Temporary Foreign Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational Workers (migrant workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational workers), Racialized, Aboriginal, Immigrant, LGBT, and other equity seeking communities, with a view to qualitative and quantitative organizational growth.

On top of that, migrant workers have to deal with the high cost of sending money to their families in their native countries by using bank transfers or traditional money transfer services.

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.

With this new national standard, child labor will be prohibited, migrant workers will be protected from exploitation and safe working conditions will be enforced.

Interviewing migrant workers at the Beijing West Railway Station earlier this year, I met an old man with twisted hands and a compelling face who was willing to talk about his life.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

They spoke with dozens of migrants, refugees, relief workers and government officials to compile this report.

«Under the education umbrella, we've partnered up with a few organizations that are in the communities in which we operate that give our migrant workers access to free English classes before or after work,» Delaney says.

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.

Golf is populated by migrant workers with odd subspecialties.

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 wWorkers in Salina for this collection of works exploring the systemic injustice of food production through the stories of migrant workersworkers.

Arlington's largely migrant Hispanic backstretch workers live in barracks - type housing with no kitchen facilities.

The claims come as a council in south Lincolnshire warned that unless the government increased the number of homes in the area to deal with the influx of migrant workers wanting to settle, there would be social unrest.

Today, immigration minister Liam Byrne said migrant workers made a «vital contribution to the UK economy», with workers from accession countries having boosted it by # 4 billion.

This article is based on my impressions of the camp and interviews with the migrants, refugees and NGO workers.

They perpetuate the myth that low - paid migrants set their own wages to compete with «British jobs for British workers».

Migrant workers such as this man in Pailin, Cambodia, near the border with Thailand, are at especially high risk of contracting malaria.

Migrant workers from Asia might inadvertently have brought contaminated soil with them.

A team led by Kording and Wei recruited three groups of people: Chinese migrant workers with no computer experience, workers who were matched by age and education but did have computer experience through a job, and a control group of college students who were computer proficient.

These included lorry drivers, migrant workers living in hostels, social workers and high - school students, as well as homosexual and bisexual men, prostitutes and street kids — groups that are hard to reach with information.

And Manohla Dargis of The N.Y. Times claims Farhadi's script is «far too busy — the movie is crammed with characters and underexplored themes, including class tensions, nativism and ugly attitudes toward migrant workers — but he's exceptionally deft at mining the spaces that open up between people, particularly during a crisis.»

Change comes, gradually, with the arrival of Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), a robust and dashing migrant worker from Romania who arrives to help during lambing season.

A Yorkshire sheep farmer develops a relationship with a Romanian migrant worker with this acclaimed first feature by Francis Lee.

Fish - out - of - water high school football coach Jim White (played by sports movie king Kevin Costner) moves with his wife (Maria Bello) and two daughters to the small, Mexican - American migrant worker town of McFarland, CA and decides to start a cross country team at the school after noticing four kids in his gym class who excel at running.

He gets involved with a Romanian migrant worker.

A young farmer numbs his frustrations with drinking and casual sex until a Romanian migrant worker sets him on a new path.

The beating heart of this classic entertainment experience is a diligent workforce of Mexican migrant workers, legally employed with the controversial H - 2B guest worker visa.

But we think with importance that Migrant worker issues are most important for our social, economical, education & development.

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.

We know, however, that both state migration patterns and the skills of interstate migrants are likely to differ depending on people's educational background, so we estimate NAEP scores separately for workers with different levels of educational attainment.

Through HELP, I witnessed education empower the migrant workers with self - confidence, pride, and positive relationship - building skills.

She went on to say that the situation is «exacerbated» by the government's migrant worker cap which requires the deportation of workers who fail to reach an annual salary of # 30,000 in five years», with such salaries being but a «pipe dream for most teachers».

In towns with large numbers of newly settled - out migrant workers, most of the newcomers are at loose ends on the fifth day.

Together we represent parents, educators, employers, and millions of students with disabilities, low - income students, students of color, English language learners (ELLs), and the children of migrant workers — all boys and girls who, through education, are working to build bright futures.

He has also recently been approached with the idea of creating a U.S. - based branch of Souktel to assist migrant workers and Americans who do not have access to the internet.