by Janet Nicol
Scotiabank employees scored an important victory in a re-settlement of a class-action suit over unpaid overtime this March, impacting 1,600 workers—but also potentially thousands of women working in banks across Canada. It’s a story making quiet headlines on the business pages of Canada’s newspapers—but it’s reach on women’s working lives is far greater.
More details are available in the summer, 2016 issue of Herizons magazine.
By Janet Nicol
Thousands of sugar cane employees in Central America are working themselves to death, cutting stocks of cane under a beating sun for long hours and earning piecemeal wages. Chronic Kidney Disease has taken the lives of more than 20,000 workers in the region. Most of those who have died are men between the ages of 20 and 40.
Roberto Valdivia worked for seven years in the sugarcane fields in Chichigalpa, along the northern Pacific coast of Nicaragua, before he was fired after contracting CKDnT. In an interview with Our Times magazine via Skype, the 34-year-old Valdivia says being unable to work has turned him into a labour activist.
The full interview with Valdivia is available in the summer 2016 issue of Our Times magazine, along with interviews with Ed Kashi, filmmaker and Jason Glaser, co-founder of La Isla Foundation, an organization advocating for sugar cane workers. (Cover photo and photos accompanying the article are by Ed Kashi.)
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