Migrant agricultural workers experiencing a food crisis
Quote from Steve on July 24, 2020, 6:50 pmSome Ontario farms are not allowing the delivery of fresh food to their migrant agricultural workers, according to Castello and two other organizers involved in the delivery of fresh produce to workers in need. This is despite the fact that these same employers are also not permitting workers to leave the farm to do their own grocery shopping, even well after workers have completed their mandatory two-week quarantine period. Instead, employers are shopping for them, but volunteers allege they are providing nutritionally insufficient and culturally inappropriate food.
Volunteers and organizers did not wish to disclose which specific farms were disallowing fresh food to be delivered to workers to protect the workers themselves from reprisals.
This sounds like slavery to me. I think the Ontario's Human Rights needs intervene.
Is it my imagination that if you have a government that treats you poorly than employers in various industries feel justified in treating you poorly as well. It comes down to a choice of poor voting.
Some Ontario farms are not allowing the delivery of fresh food to their migrant agricultural workers, according to Castello and two other organizers involved in the delivery of fresh produce to workers in need. This is despite the fact that these same employers are also not permitting workers to leave the farm to do their own grocery shopping, even well after workers have completed their mandatory two-week quarantine period. Instead, employers are shopping for them, but volunteers allege they are providing nutritionally insufficient and culturally inappropriate food.
Volunteers and organizers did not wish to disclose which specific farms were disallowing fresh food to be delivered to workers to protect the workers themselves from reprisals.
This sounds like slavery to me. I think the Ontario's Human Rights needs intervene.
Is it my imagination that if you have a government that treats you poorly than employers in various industries feel justified in treating you poorly as well. It comes down to a choice of poor voting.