MEXICAN MIGRANT WORKERS APPLY TO JOIN CANADIAN UNION UFCW/TUAC

“In a historical breakthrough that could eventually impact thousands of migrant agricultural workers brought each season to Canada, Mexican migrant workers at three farms in Québec and one farm in Manitoba have applied to go union with UFCW Canada (known as TUAC Canada in Québec).

Once the automatic certification applications at the four locations are granted by the Québec and Manitoba labour boards, the Mexican workers at the four farms will be able for the first time to bargain their wages and working conditions which up until now have exclusively been set by the Mexican and Canadian governments under the federal government’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP).”

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