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Concerns Linger for Jamaican Farmworkers in Canada

Concerns relating to the conditions Jamaican farm workers have endured while in Canada still linger, despite a recent fact finding mission headed by Trade Unionist Helene Davis Whyte. In August a Jamaican migrant worker from Mandeville became the 6th national to die in a work-related incident on a farm in Ontario in the past decade.

While others wrote to the Labour Ministry describing conditions akin to “systemic slavery” despite a report from a fact-finding mission in response to complaints by Jamaican farmworkers in Canada last year, indicating that conditions are satisfactory, Opposition Spokesperson on Labour and Social Security Dr. Angela Brown Burke, continues to receive complaints relating to working conditions prior to the recent fact finding mission.

Dr. Brown Burke is calling for more clarity around the methodology behind the recent investigations. Watch the report:

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