Migrant workers get home away from home
Stuart Hunter
The Province
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Migrant agricultural workers have a new home in Abbotsford
A noon-hour ribbon-cutting ceremony and reception will be held today at the new Abbotsford Migrant Agricultural Worker Support Centre located at 203-2642 Cedar Park Place.
The centre, operated by the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada union (UFCW), will provide services to the 1,000 seasonal migrant workers who come to the Fraser Valley annually to plant and harvest crops.
Services will include health and safety training, translation assistance, ESL classes, legal assistance and recreational activities.
The new centre in Abbotsford is one of five UFCW-run facilities in Canada catering to about 18,000 migrant workers nationally.
The Abbotsford centre opens three months after a van crash that claimed the lives of three farm workers, who died March 7 when a 15-passenger van loaded with 17 workers rolled near Abbotsford.
The provincial government has since promised tougher seat-belt laws, stiffer fines and more inspections.
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