(Vancouver) Advocates with the Farmworkers Legal Advocacy Program (LAP) are requesting BC’s Chief Coroner to conduct a full public inquest into the catastrophic van accident on Wednesday that killed three women farmworkers and injured 14 others.
“This accident shows once again that working conditions for farmworkers are dangerous, and sometimes fatal”, said Charan Gill, CEO of PICS. “We as a society need to look at comprehensive solutions to the dangerous transportation conditions endured by these workers. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families who have lost their loved ones.” Gurcharan Dhillon, an advocate with LAP and a former agricultural worker, added that “If a worker who is being picked up in the morning by the farm labour contractor’s van complains about an unsafe vehicle and refuses to get inside, chances are, that worker will not be given employment that day.”
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