Safety Training: Health Services and Labour Rights

safety training: The festival provides food, music and entertainment, but it is also an information fair that provides migrant workers access to health services, legal counsel, and health and safety training, as well as important information on labour rights and English as a Second Language ESL courses, according to Rabble. These festivals are organized by the Niagara Migrant Worker Interest Group NMWIG whose objective is to coordinate the efforts of individuals and organizations in Niagara who provide services and support to seasonal migrant workers. For the past nine years, hundreds of migrant farmworkers have been coming together in southern Ontario for a Migrant Worker Summer Festival. The coalition was formed in 2010 and receives no governmental funding. This year, about 300 migrant farm workers and community members attended the event on June 5. It works entirely on agency contributions, donations and volunteer labour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.