GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Flat Rate
Geog130/ Oct 27
1st Video (El Cantrato
)
- Mexico City
- Lived in Canada by 8 months 5 day, employer treated him badly
o4 kids under 18
- Have to leave Mexico to go work other places
- 17000 migrant worker come to Canada
- Leamington Ontario
- Not treated nicely
- Work 10 hrs a day
- Flat rate of 7$ an hour
- Growers are provided housing
oNine men that work in the same greenhouse live in a corner complex of a house
(‘packed like sardines’)
- Hard for them to be away from their families for 8 months at a time
- Want them as workers not citizens
- Lowest wage in the Mexican republic, forces them to leave for work
- When inebriated caller their ‘owners to pick them up”
- No mandatory safety laws for greenhouse workers
oA lot of injuries
oUse of pesticides
- Migrant worker support
- Mexican Consulate
- Many think they here to be sent as workers, don’t think of them as human beings
oDon’t receive extra pay on holidays or get paid overtime
oNo rest days
- Incident of being grabbed by the neck
- In his mind slavery has yet left
oNot machines, should be thankful for the work they do
2nd Video
- Large amount of immigrant workers
3rd Video (ted talk/ Cameron Sinclair)
- Boom and bust refugees
Labor Migration:
- How does the seasonal migration of Mexican labourers to Ontario compare to the
situation in the United States?
- In Canada:
oScarcity of farm workers (greenhouse farms)
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Document Summary
Lived in canada by 8 months 5 day, employer treated him badly: 4 kids under 18. Have to leave mexico to go work other places. Flat rate of 7$ an hour: nine men that work in the same greenhouse live in a corner complex of a house ( packed like sardines") Hard for them to be away from their families for 8 months at a time. When inebriated caller their owners to pick them up . No mandatory safety laws for greenhouse workers. Lowest wage in the mexican republic, forces them to leave for work: a lot of injuries, use of pesticides. Many think they here to be sent as workers, don"t think of them as human beings: don"t receive extra pay on holidays or get paid overtime, no rest days. In his mind slavery has yet left: not machines, should be thankful for the work they do. Work overtime and extra hours w/ no extra pay (poor) employee-employer relationships.
