Source: www.theguardian.pe.ca --- 14 hours ago This is Canadian Agricultural Safety Week and the Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of Prince Edward Island would like to remind all farmers this is an opportune time to develop Farm safety plans. ...
Source: twitter.com --- 2 days ago graphicnews: Island Farmer: WCB encourages farmers to plan Farm safety: The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of Prince Edward ... http://bit.ly/bZc7o8 ...
Source: whitmanpioneer.com --- 4 days ago Photo Credit : Rachel Alexander ‘¡Si se puede !’ has been used as a rallying cry for everything from pro-immigration marches to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Its original usage, however, was as the motto for the United FarmWorkers of America labor union. In this spirit, union organizer Arturo Sepulveda led a group of dairy Workers in a march last Friday, March 5, to demand fair working conditions from their employers at the Ruby Ridge dairy in Pasco , Wash., who ha ve fired a number of Workers in the past for attempting to unionize. The Ruby Ridge employees were joined outside the dairy in Pasco by a dozen Whitman students who came to march with the Workers, learn more about their struggles and support their demands for justice and respect. “We’re here because everyone should have basic human rights,” said sophomore Maggie Allen, who was among the group of Whitman students marching with the FarmWorkers. Over the course of the rally, many Ruby Ridge employees shared stories of their experiences at the dairy. “We’ve never had any benefits,” said Jesus Perez, who has worked at the dairy for about two years. Perez and several former employees explained that Workers at Ruby Ridge typically work between eight and 12 hours per day, six days a week. The work, mostly involving milking cows, is fast-paced and continuous. Breaks for food, water or going to the bathroom are not allowed. “We worked . . . 10 hours, 12 hours, without bre ...
Source: www.kcoy.com --- 4 days ago State prosecutors have sued a Southern California Farm labor contractor, alleging that he paid field Workers less than minimum wage and that he didn't provide them rest breaks, drinking water and shade. ...
Source: www.ktvl.com --- 5 days ago CLEARLAKE, Calif. -- Authorities have identified two bodies found in an embankment as a Maine couple who worked at a Northern California marijuana growing operation. Thirty-two-year-old Frank Maddox and his 40-year-old wife, Yvette, disappeared from... ...
Source: www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk --- 6 days ago FARMING organisations have reached an agreement with telephone maintenance and supply company Openreach, an adjunct of BT, on rules and conditions... ...
Source: www.bellinghamherald.com --- 6 days ago Three FarmWorkers have filed a federal lawsuit against a Washington cherry grower and his labor contractor, contending they were fired so the grower could hire foreign Workers under a federal guest-worker program. ...
Source: www.krgv.com --- 6 days ago RIO BRAVO - Some Valley farmers are concerned about their family's safety. The farmers are in the U.S. Their families live in Mexico. Some say they can't go back to their family. Workers at Reavis farms say they're on alert, closely watching reports of violence in Mexico. Wayne Reavis is the president of Reavis Farms. He manages eight people. About half of them have family living in Mexico amid cartel violence. "Just like all of us, we're just concerned," says Reavis. Sources tell CHANNEL 5 NEW the power struggle between the cartels is shifting to Nuevo Laredo. Reavis says some of his Workers still can't go home to their family. Reavis says his Workers are here legally. They working for a better life, free of poverty, and away from violence. "I don't know if there is much I can do other than keep their mind occupied. They don't have anything bad to say, just watch like the rest of us and see what's going on," says Reavis. ...
Source: twitter.com --- 6 days ago AndyArthur: Lewis County Legislators Oppose FarmWorkers Rights Bill. http://bit.ly/aWlKck They passed a resolution on it. ...
Source: brownfieldagnews.com --- 9 days ago According to the National Ag Statistics Service (NASS), the number of FarmWorkers in the Eastern Corn Belt states of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio totaled 32,000 up 24 percent from January 2009. Average pay was $11.95 per hour. Nationally, the number of FarmWorkers totaled 767,000 in January, down 2 percent from a year ago. During the reference week, field Workers received an average wage of $10.14, up 18 cents from last January, livestock Workers at $10.26, earned a penny less than a year ago. ...
Source: capitalnews9.com --- 13 days ago It's a law designed to help FarmWorkers by mandating protections that exist in other lines of work. But New York farmers say the law would force them out of business. Kaitlyn Ross has more on this controversial bill. ...
Source: mayorgraham.blogspot.com --- 13 days ago Senator Darrel Aubertine is getting lots of press downstate for his opposition to a FarmWorkers rights bill....The libs say he is holding show trials in the Ag Committee to stall or kill the bill, which upstate lawmakers say will place onerous and expensive mandates on beleaguered farmers. Regardless of the merits of the bill, this is a great way for Democrat Aubertine to inoculate himself against downstate Democrats in a year the GOP will try to tie Aubertine to them. That may be why Senate leader John Sampson allowed the bill to meander from the Labor Committee to Aubertine's Agriculture Committee. The leadership knows NYC media bashing Aubertine is just what the Senator needs to have read by voters in the 48th District. A growing injustice: FarmWorkers' rights need Senate vote, not sham hearings ...
Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 13 days ago State Sen. Darrel Aubertine - the chief opponent of equal rights for New York's tens of thousands of long-suffering farmworkers - held an Albany version of a Moscow show trial yesterday. ...
Source: www.nysut.org --- 13 days ago Farm worker advocates made their case before a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Monday, calling on lawmakers in the Senate to pass the FarmWorkers Fair Labor Practices Act. ...
Source: www.strongerunions.org --- 14 days ago Please do what you can to defend the FarmWorkers’ union in Zimbabwe , GAPWUZ. Just in case you thought Zimbabwe was a problem that had been solved, GAPWUZ is under attack for publishing a report ( If something is wrong ) which reveals the huge cost to black FarmWorkers of continuing Farm seizures. Far more black FarmWorkers are beaten, thrown out of their homes and left without a job than the white Farm owners that Robert Mugabe says are his main targets. Now GAPWUZ General Secretary, Gertrude Hambira, is in hiding, and Assistant General Secretary Gift Muti and President Manjemanje Munyanyi were arrested last week during a raid ontheir offices by security services. Amnesty International and the TUC have called an urgent action – please encourage people to join in the protest. An attack on unions anywhere is an attack on unions everywhere. For further information, see what the IUF and ITUC have to say. ...
Source: newszealand.blogspot.com --- 14 days ago The Council of Trade Unions says FarmWorkers need independent representation to ensure they have employment contracts and are properly paid for the hours they work. Latest figures from Federated Farmers show while the number of farms with written contracts grew by 9% since last year, fewer than a quarter have a contract with their employees and only 40% keep records of the hours their employees ...