UFCW Canada is joined by Mexican officials in calling for increased protections for migrant farm workers
TORONTO and MEXICO CITY, Dec. 11, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) held a virtual press conference on Thursday, December 10 to present Mexican officials, policy leaders, and members of the media with the union’s
a report, and to call for urgent reforms to Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP).
At the conference, UFCW Canada National President Paul Meinema outlined recommendations from the 46-page report that could help improve the TFWP, reduce the vulnerability of migrant farm workers labouring in Canada, and provide migrant workers with pathways to permanent residency. President Meinema explained that the report’s 14 recommendations are based on direct input from migrant agricultural workers, as well as UFCW’s thirty years of advocacy on behalf of these workers.