Open letters, press releases, and more
RAMA, along with multiple organizations in Canada released the below Open Letter on February 24th, 2021. Migrant and undocumented people are at the forefront of the COVID-19 crisis. We are often working in essential jobs that sustain our communities but have been excluded from services and protections. Some of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections are for migrants in congregate […]
The Canadian government launched a consultation to improve the housing conditions of temporary foreign workers in this country. However, their consultation process did not include an effort to reach out to the migrant workers themselves. RAMA believes that migrant workers ought to have a voice about the standards for their own housing conditions and that their voice should guide this […]
Good afternoon, We’re writing to you again to follow up on an issue that we are deeply concerned about. We continue to hear on a daily basis from temporary foreign farmworkers employed by your members who continue to be confined on farms following completion of mandatory 14-day quarantine. Workers across the Okanagan have also reported being prohibited from having visitors from local […]
Julio 28, 2020 A principios del mes de Junio, Erika Zavala y Jesús Molina, dos trabajadores temporales Mexicanos fueron despedidos de Bylands Nurseries in West kelowna y enviados a México tres días después. Ellos fueron despedidos porque violaron la regla de no salir del sitio de empleo, o recibir visitantes, inclusive después de haber cumplido las dos semanas de cuarentena. […]
July 28, 2020 In early July, Erika Zavala and Jesus Molina, two Mexican temporary foreign workers were fired by Bylands Nurseries in West Kelowna and repatriated three days later. They were fired because they violated their employer’s policy not to leave the farm site or have visitors even though they were not in their 2 weeks of quarantine. They were […]