This Autumn WSC held a ground breaking meeting in partnership with seasonal agricultural workers and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery to consider how to safeguard workers on tied and temporary migration programmes.
Watch the event film to hear from attendees why this meeting was so important.
Throughout 2024, WSC has worked with 58 seasonal agricultural workers from across Scotland to document experiences, positive and negative, and priorities for change as part of our Worker Power project.
This Autumn’s meeting is one of many ways in which WSC has supported workers to connect their priorities and experiences to decisions made about their lives, authoring their own stories, and creating their own spaces for power.
Throughout the day we discussed issues spanning experiences of the UK Seasonal Worker, worker representation, tied-worker accommodation and access to justice. Workers provided evidence and analysis and were joined on panels by government officials, academics, lawyers, trade unions, NGOs and national human rights institutions.
Thoughts and findings from the day are set out in our full Outcome Document, below.
Watch the film in Russian here: