For the latter, the risk of infection and the effects of COVID-19 infection prevention and control measures have severely disrupted their lives including with their families at home, on the road, at work, and in the wider community. [...] It highlights the challenges they have experienced and argues for the importance of attending to E-RGM, and particularly to this diverse and substantial segment of the labour force, in COVID-19 planning, management, and compensation. [...] Among factors contributing to the risk of infection spread is the practice of relying on recruiters to provide a segment of the labour force and the related practice of moving workers from farm to farm (Ferguson 2020). [...] In the words of Ramsaroop, “Canada is reinforcing the myth that migrant workers are carriers of the virus and that the virus is being spread from the global South to the North. [...] The steelworker grieved the company’s policy on the basis that at the same time, the company was allowing thousands of American truckers and contractors to cross the border and visit the steel plant without quarantine.
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