Labor & Employment Law

Canadian Farm Workers March Wins LabourStart Photo Contest

By Mike Hall

LabourStart subscribers from around the world selected Gerardo Correa?s photo of a Canadian farm workers? march as the winner in the news service?s 2010 Labor Photo of the Year contest.

Correa?s submission depicts migrant farm workers as they embark early Thanksgiving morning for a ?Pilgrimage for Freedom.? The 50-kilometer walk from Leamington to Windsor in Ontario highlighted their demands for basic workers? rights. There are more than 25,000 workers who spend up to eight months a year on temporary visas working and harvesting on farms across Canada.

This was LabourStart?s third annual global photo contest, and it drew hundreds of entries that were narrowed down to five finalists (click here to view). LabourStart?s Stuart Elliot says the contest:

recognizes the talents of worker-photographers around the world, and at the same time encourages them to tell the stories of our struggles in photos.

The winner was selected from five finalists by a three-judge panel of photojournalist and author David Bacon; Gretchen Donart, a communications organizer in Seattle; and Mac Urata, secretary of the Inland Transport Sections of the International Transport Workers’ Federation.

LabourStart is an online news service maintained by a global network of volunteers. It serves the international trade union movement by collecting and disseminating information and by assisting unions in campaigning and other ways. It features daily labor news links in more than 20 languages and a news syndication service used by more than 700 trade union websites.

To comment on the photo or congratulate the winning photographer, click here.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on January 09, 2011 (boomark / email).