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The Migrant Worker Solidarity Network and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba are proud to release Migrant Voices: Stories of Seasonal Agricultural Workers in Manitoba. The report was released today, May 15th, at an event at the Manitoba Legislative building.
Migrant Voices is based on interviews conducted with migrant farm workers in Manitoba during the summer of 2011. About 400 workers come to Manitoba every year, mostly from Mexico, to plant and harvest much of the produce grown in Manitoba.
You can download a copy of the report here.
Mexican Migrant Farm Workers – Their Role in the Manitoba Economy
A presentation by:
Lynne Fernandez
Errol Black Chair in Labour Issues
Jodi Read
Migrant Worker Solidarity Network
Tuesday March 5
1PM – 2.15PM Tier 307
Organized by:
The Dept. of French, Spanish & Italian
Labour Studies Program
For more information:
204-474-9313 or
enrique_fernandez@umanitoba.ca
Welcome to the website of the Migrant Workers Solidarity Network!
We’ve spruced up the website- you can now find above more information about the MWSN, see what we’ve published on the issue of migrant workers in the province, and see how you can get involved to support migrant workers in the province.
We would also love to hear from you: you can contact us at mw.solidarity (at) gmail.com.
-the MWSN
As you may have heard, on November 9 the Federal Government will be making major changes in the regulations covering migrant workers in Canada through the Temporary Foreign Worker program. Under the guise of better protecting these vulnerable men and women, the proposed regulations will actually negatively impact them in a very serious way.
Please consider downloading and printing this letter and sending it to Minister Kenny. You might also send a copy to your local MP. Make sure you print your name and address and date at the top of the letter, and sign your name at the end of the letter. Read the rest of this entry »
The Migrant Worker Solidarity Network of Manitoba will have a table and some informational material available at the Global Justice Film Festival, including a petition letter on gaining provincial health coverage for migrant workers in Manitoba through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program.
Hope to see you there!
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