Jamaica: Migrant farm workers write letter to the Ministry of Labour requesting support in the face of alleged systematic slavery in Canada
摘要
日期: 2022年8月20日
地點: 加拿大
企業
Berlo's Best Farm - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 1 - 牙買加 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業：綜合 , Men , Documented migrants )議題
Occupational Health & Safety , 死亡回應
已邀請回應：是，由CBC News
回應的外部鏈接： (查看更多)
後續行動: The province has confirmed his death. The Van Berlo family, who runs Berlo's Best, said they were devastated by Yapp's death, adding "they did not lose an employee, but they lost a person they considered a member of their family," the family's lawyer Bernard Cummins told CBC Toronto.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年8月20日
地點: 加拿大
其他
Not Reported ( 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業：綜合 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 墨西哥 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業：綜合 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 菲律賓 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業：綜合 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 牙買加 , 農業和畜牧 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )議題
Excessive production targets , Occupational Health & Safety , Ownership of Property & Possessions , 恐嚇和威脅 , Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions回應
已邀請回應：是，由CBC News
回應的外部鏈接： (查看更多)
後續行動: CBC News did not receive a response from the farm mentioned in the letter about the alleged conditions.
資訊來源: News outlet
摘要
日期: 2022年8月20日
地點: 加拿大
其他
Not Reported ( 農業和畜牧 ) - Employer受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 菲律賓 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業：綜合 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 墨西哥 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業：綜合 , Gender not reported ) , 移民和移民工人: ( 數字未知 - 牙買加 , 農業/食品/飲料/煙草/漁業：綜合 , Gender not reported , Documented migrants )議題
Precarious/Unsuitable Living Conditions , Occupational Health & Safety , 恐嚇和威脅 , Ownership of Property & Possessions , Excessive production targets回應
已邀請回應：是，由CBC News
回應的外部鏈接： (查看更多)
後續行動: CBC News did not receive a response from the farm mentioned in the letter about the alleged conditions.
資訊來源: News outlet
"Jamaican migrant workers in Ontario pen open letter likening conditions to 'systematic slavery'", 20 August 2022
...Jamaican migrant farm workers in Niagara Region wrote an open letter to Jamaica's Ministry of Labour requesting more support in the face of what they call "systematic slavery," days before a migrant worker died in Norfolk County...
In its own statement, the Ontario Ministry of Labour, whom it falls on to investigate the matter, said the investigation is ongoing.
According to Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (MWAC), three other workers have died in Ontario in the last week alone. The workers who penned the open letter are members of MWAC.
CBC News has not independently confirmed those three deaths...
"As it currently stands, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) is systematic slavery," the workers wrote in their open letter...
Workers wrote they were scared of sharing their grievances with Samuda directly for fear of being kicked out of the SAWP. They also said that workers from Mexico and the Philippines share the same grievances.
Workers described housing conditions as so poor that rats eat their food. They live in crowded rooms with zero privacy with cameras, and lack dryers to dry their clothes after it rains, they wrote.
...[W]orkers wrote they're "treated like mules" and punished for not being quick enough. They said they're exposed to dangerous pesticides without adequate protection, and their bosses are verbally abusive...
CBC News did not receive a response from the two farms mentioned in the letter about the alleged conditions...