3 out 2023
USA: Peruvian sheepherders experience severe exploitation on isolated ranches, & are often unable to leave
Resumo
Data informada: 3 out 2023
Localização: Estados Unidos da América
Outros
Not Reported ( Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Saúde e Segurança Ocupacional , MortesResposta
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Medidas tomadas: Wyoming’s Department of Workforce Services OSHA Division declined to investigate the death because they said it was outside their jurisdiction. His employer, a rancher named Bart Argyle, did not return requests for comment. Argyle brought nine more herders into the country on H-2A visas this year.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 3 out 2023
Localização: Estados Unidos da América
Empresas
Child Ranch - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 2 - Peru , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Retenção de documentos de identificação , Mobilidade restrita , Acesso à Informação , Taxas de Recrutamento , Roubo de salários , Reasonable Working Hours & Leisure Time , Intimidação e Ameaças , Direito à Alimentação , Acesso à Água , Acesso a medicamentosResposta
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Medidas tomadas: The employer did not respond to repeated phone calls, emails and a certified letter requesting comment about the assertions made in this story. In September 2020, the brothers filed wage theft complaints against the ranch. In a letter to a Wyoming Department of Workforce Services officer reviewed for this story, Vickie Child called the brothers’ accusations “totally false,” but acknowledged that Iván and Gustavo “do have some money coming.” She paid Iván $4,260 in back wages, but then disputed Gustavo’s claim, which was considerably larger. In December 2020, a Wyoming Department of Workforce Services investigation determined that Child did, in fact, owe Gustavo over $7,300 in back pay, and that he had illegally deducted work-related gear, like boots and binoculars, from Gustavo’s paycheck. But because Wyoming state law limits the amount of back wages that workers can ask for, Gustavo was ultimately awarded less than half of what he was owed. The brothers were awarded T visas in October 2022.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 3 out 2023
Localização: Estados Unidos da América
Empresas
Western Range Association - Other Value Chain EntityAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Peru , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Taxas de RecrutamentoResposta
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Medidas tomadas: In an emailed statement, Western Range Executive Director Monica Youree stressed the group’s commitment to herders’ “safety and well-being” ... The lawyers who represent herders, Western Range said, “appear more interested in exploiting isolated incidents to make broad assessments about the industry,” she said, and “often attempt to recover millions of dollars for themselves.”. The lawsuit is still pending.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 3 out 2023
Localização: Estados Unidos da América
Outros
Not Reported ( Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral ) - EmployerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 1
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( 1 - Localização desconhecida , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Mortes , Saúde e Segurança Ocupacional , Acesso à Água , Exposição ao calorResposta
Response sought: Não
Medidas tomadas: OSHA fined the employer $9,750 in 2019, but he hired three more H-2A workers later that year.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 3 out 2023
Localização: Estados Unidos da América
Empresas
Western Range Association - Other Value Chain EntityAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores migrantes e imigrantes: ( Número desconhecido - Peru , Agricultura/comida/bebida/tabaco/pescaria: Geral , Gender not reported )Temas
Taxas de RecrutamentoResposta
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Medidas tomadas: In an emailed statement, Western Range Executive Director Monica Youree stressed the group’s commitment to herders’ “safety and well-being” ... The lawyers who represent herders, Western Range said, “appear more interested in exploiting isolated incidents to make broad assessments about the industry,” she said, and “often attempt to recover millions of dollars for themselves.”. The lawsuit was dismissed.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
"Alone on the Range”
…Originally from Peru, the brothers had been recruited to work as sheepherders in the United States under a temporary work visa…
The hours were long and conditions were brutal, but they couldn’t see how to just leave…
…Today, much of that advocacy is done by trade groups such as the Western Range Association… As of 2014, the trade group Iván and Gustavo’s boss worked with, Mountain Plains Agricultural Service, hired many of the rest. (Mountain Plains did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)…
… Western Range Executive Director Monica Youree stressed the group’s commitment to herders’ “safety and well-being” and vehemently denied any wage-fixing allegations…
…He landed in Wyoming and was picked up at the airport and driven out to Child Ranch…neither Jon Child nor his wife, Vickie, responded to repeated phone calls, emails and a certified letter requesting comment about the assertions made in this story…
…According to details from OSHA’s inspection, investigators determined that he appeared to have died from heat-related illness and that his employer, Joe Paesano, hadn’t given him enough water. OSHA fined Paesano $9,750 in 2019, but he hired three more H-2A workers later that year…