Recent migrant worker fatalities under investigation
| September 21, 2010- Artist: Scott McWhinnie
- Title: Labour Show September 20th, 2010
- Album: TLS
- Track: 1
- Genre: Speech
- Year: 2010
- Length: 12:11 minutes (11.16 MB)
- Format: Stereo 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
Show Notes:
The cause of death of two Jamaican migrant agriculture workers who died on Friday, September 10, at a Grey County Ontario farm is still under investigation. The chief liaison officer in the Jamaica Liaison Service (JLS) in Toronto would only describe it as a "job-related accident."
The two men, aged 36 and 44, were working at the Filsinger's Organic Foods apple orchard and processing facility in Ayton, Ontario -- about 70 kilometers south of Owen Sound.
Provincial police and the Ontario Ministry of Labour are conducting an investigation.
Chris Ramsaroop of Justicia For Migrant Workers talks about the often ignored downside and the lack of wider awareness of these programs, which have been bringing workers to Canada for decades and continue to grow exponentially into areas well beyond agriculture.