Agriculture Workers Alliance
300-61 International Blvd Toronto M9W6K4 Toronto, ON, Canada

We welcome this ruling and we want to believe that this precedent will improve working conditions and hopefully make employers think twice before behaving like this, he said. But the reality is that if these workers don’t have a binding document, if they don’t have a collective agreement, it is very unlikely that employers will protect workers accordingly.

All of those infected live in congregate living conditions, such a bunk houses

Daniel has been part of the TFWP since 2009. This year, he obtained an open work permit with the help of #UFCW, which allows him mobility as a worker. Migrant farmworkers are the most vulnerable workers in #Canada & deserve to be treated with dignity & respect. The Federal Government has the possibility to make unionization mandatory & therefore protect these essential workers, the solution is there!

Almost 1,100 workers’ compensation claims were filed by private operators Sienna Senior Living, Extendicare, Revera and Responsive Group or their subsidiaries. A further 1,100 claims were registered by 10 southern Ontario farms including Scotlynn Growers, Nature Fresh, Agriville Farms and Mucci Pac.

"It's important that we welcome the initiative that the city will be in charge of these facilities ... to centralize and especially ... when it comes to fighting COVID," Escobar said, adding what the industry went through in the first wave could have been prevented had these accommodations been in place earlier.