Covert calls for help — a hotline for migrant workers
A third Mexican worker has died from COVID-19 on a Canadian farm. Two people who staff a hotline for migrant farm workers give us an inside look at this crisis as it unfolded.
COVID-19 outbreaks have ripped through farms in Canada, particularly in southern Ontario, taking a toll on migrant workers. Three have already died.
Desperate for help, workers have been calling a hotline staffed by the Migrant Workers Alliance for Change — usually in secret. Today, the two people who staff that hotline give us an inside look at this crisis as it unfolded.