Mushrooms Canada: Workers and Canada

mushrooms canada: Mushroom farms provide permanent, year-round jobs with a quality living wage in rural Canada and would like to welcome these skilled workers to Canada, so they have the option of staying and buying homes and building a life here as well, said George Graham, president of Mushrooms Canada, whose members produce 134 tons of mushrooms a year, according to Toronto Star. These workers are interested in working on farms and staying on farms. Without a stable, skilled labour pool of migrant workers, the sector, which employs 4,330 people, could be in jeopardy, warned a report released Monday by Mushrooms Canada. This is their dream job and we are fulfilling these workers' dreams. The mushroom industry's plea follows a recent Toronto Star series, The Hands that Pick Your Food, which found that Canada has been increasing its reliance on migrant workers in the agri-food sector and that the lack of access to permanent residency can expose workers to abusive and exploitative working conditions. They are our valued employees and part of the community, and we support and help them integrate in the local rural communities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.