JCWI contributed to a collaborative report with The Landworkers’ Alliance, Focus on Labour Exploitation, The New Economics Foundation, Sustain, and a farmworker solidarity network which highlights working conditions under the Seasonal Worker Visa in UK horticulture.
“It is migrant farmworkers who experience the agroindustrial system’s worst injustices.” Download the report from The Landworkers’ Alliance
This report has identified drivers of exploitation at the level of the farm, the supply chain, and the migration system. To ameliorate these, our collaboration has developed a series of recommendations for the UK government, labour market enforcement (LME) bodies, supermarkets, and for trade unions and social movements who want to campaign for better conditions for farmworkers.
Restricted Visas
There is clear evidence that risks of exploitation are inherent in restrictive, temporary and sector-specific visas. To protect workers’ safety and rights, we call on the go…