Jamaican migrant workers were sent back to the Caribbean from a farm in Ontario earlier this month after holding a one-day strike in protest of their workplace conditions.

The workers arrived in Canada in the spring and were initially scheduled to remain at a produce farm in southwestern Ontario until the fall but were sent home on Aug 8., at least two months ahead of schedule.

“The mistreatment or abuse of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) is unacceptable and will not be tolerated,” government spokesperson Samuelle Carbonneau told CTV News Toronto Monday.

  • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world
    28·
    1 year ago

    Canadian farmers are notorious for using TFW as free labour, often underpaying, overworking, and threatening TFW’s with deportation or other punishments while reaping huge profits and refusing to hire local workers.

    Everything our government does Lib or Con has the goal of extracting value for wealthy interests. People need to start paying attention and voting as progressively as possible.

    We are leaving so much quality of life on the table (higher wages, holidays, benefits) by not holding our government accountable for anything, and somehow think not paying attention to boring politics is the answer.