Guatemala

Temporary workers in Canada 'without rights'

Date: 13/11/2012 - 14:10

Jose Sicajau is finally back in Canada, but not the way he wants to be. The farmer from Guatemala would like to be working on a Canadian farm for several months, harvesting cabbage and peppers, and earning triple the money he could make back home.

Sicajau did just that four years in a row through a joint Canada-Guatemala program to bring seasonal workers to Canadian farms. He was one of tens of thousands of labourers on whom the agriculture sector relies to produce its crops.

Peace Caravan Tells Migrants "You Are Not Alone"

Date: 17/09/2011 - 17:45

Lucía and her family left their village in Guatemala village at 8:00 am to join the Peace Caravan, but they had to wait for six hours at the Rodolfo Robles bridge between Ciudad Tecún Umán, in Guatemala, and Ciudad Hidalgo, in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas.

Guatemalan migrants deserve our respect.

Date: 24/08/2010 - 13:56

Canada’s largest private-sector union, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW Canada), has launched – in collaboration with the Agriculture Workers Alliance (AWA) – a major campaign to denounce the systematic abuse and violation of the rights of Guatemalan farm workers who come to Canada through the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP).

Casa del Migrante Tecún Umán

Date: 08/09/2009 - 10:44
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Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios

Date: 08/09/2009 - 10:44
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