“Canada’s food workers’ union published its annual Status of Migrant Agricultural Workers Report at the UFCW Canada Agricultural Worker Support Centre in Leamington, Ontario, on Sunday, June 26.
The special COVID-19 report highlights the increasing vulnerability experienced by migrant workers in the wake of a deadly pandemic that has already claimed the lives of nine workers. The report makes twenty recommendations that must be implemented as part of a desperately needed overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to more adequately address the well-evidenced vulnerability that migrant workers experience. Read more here…