Last year, nearly 12,000 workers traveled from Mexico, Guatemala and across the world to work on B.C. farms. Every one of them had a chunk of their paycheque deducted to cover employment insurance premiums. But unlike workers based in Canada, migrant farm-workers can almost never claim that money once their contracts are up and they are no longer working. And now, migrant farm-workers are trying to sue the federal government, claiming they’re owed hundreds of millions in damage ... CLICK HERE for the full story
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