Remember and Honour the Sacrifice of B.C. Farmworkers

Join friends and family of the three women who died and fourteen others who were injured in an unsafe van in March, 2007, and the men who were killed or injured at a Langley mushroom farm September, 2008.

Commit to Ending unsafe working conditions that injure and kill those who put food on our tables.

Saturday April 18 – 12:00 Noon

Gather at Labour Minister Iain Black’s campaign office

3130 St. Johns Street, Port Moody

Sponsored by the B.C. Federation of Labour, Canadian Farmworkers
Union, the families of farmworkers injured or killed in our province.

It is long overdue that the government take immediate action:

1. The Crown must act on the RCMP’s recommendation to lay criminal charges against the owner/driver of the van in the March 2007 fatal crash.

2. The BC Coroner’s office must immediately set a date for an inquest into the 2007 van accident to prevent similar accidents in the future.

3. Significantly increase the number of vehicle inspections and improve the procedure for certifications.

4. Ensure all farmworkers are covered by the same employment standards and workplace rights that other workers in British Columbia enjoy. 

5. Ban the use of 15-passenger vans as worker transportation vehicles.

We are determined to keep up the fight to provide farmworkers with greater protection so that no other workers die in the fields, the greenhouses and the farms, and that no other families have to go through this painful experience of losing a loved one because they went to work and did not come home.

Sincerely,

JIM SINCLAIR, President, B.C. Federation of Labour
CHARAN GILL, Canadian Farmworkers Union