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HARVESTING A MOVEMENT: BC'S MIGRANT FARM WORKERS
In the orchards of the Okanagan, Mexican and Jamaican farm workers plant and prune. Some, mainly women, are in the packing houses. Many of these migrants handle pesticides with little to no training and without proper protective gear for spraying. “They often complain of getting sick from the chemicals, getting rashes on their hands, and infections in their eyes,” says Amy Cohen, an organizer with Radical Action with Migrants in Agriculture (RAMA), a non-profit based in the Okanagan. They’re working long, hard hours – usually six or seven days a week – and often labouring weeks on end without a break during the harvest.
When Mexican farmers started leaving their country because of the decimation caused by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), they came to Canada to find work. Read more!
HOW TO START TALKING ABOUT RACE IN YOUR UNION
By Alexandra Bradbury
Tensions over whether unions should join, oppose, or sit out the Black Lives Matter movement are drawing long-overdue attention to the simmering racial divides inside labor.
“Our brother killed our sister’s son,” AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka said last summer after police officer Darren Wilson shot teenager Michael Brown, son of a Food and Commercial Workers member in Ferguson, Missouri. “How can we not be involved?” Read more!
WHO GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO STRIKE?
By Solidarity Halifax’s Workers Action Committee
How should workers fight repressive legislation, in the courts or in the streets? While a favorable judgement can bring concrete benefits to workers, there are serious drawbacks to a legalistic strategy. Pursuing a court challenge is an enormous drain on a union’s resources, time, and militancy. This article provides an overview of the Universities Accountability and Sustainability Act, an opinion on whether or not it is constitutional, and a discussion of how labour legality shapes workers’ struggles. Read more!
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