TORONTO - Thanks to the efforts of the Agriculture Workers Alliance/UFCW Canada, the door has been opened for about 130 migrant and domestic farm workers to get the back pay they were owed when the Ontario farm they worked at declared bankruptcy last fall.
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| (L-R) Fanny Belcoski, coordinator AWA Simcoe centre; Stan Raper (centre), national coordinator AWA; and Carolina Ramirez, whose successful test claim filed by the AWA has opened the way for other Ghesquiere workers. | |
Carolina Ramirez, a landed immigrant from Colombia who worked at the farm, recently received a cheque for more than $1,400 after the staff at the AWA centre in Simcoe, Ontario filed a test claim on her behalf under the
Wage Earner Protection Act (WEPA).
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