[news] Migrants backbone of farm labour: Fatal crash shines light on middlemen

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Support groups for field workers want rules on who bears responsibility for safety JEFF HEINRICH | The Gazette | Friday, July 08, 2005 A $50, a $20 and another $20 thrown in the envelope as a bonus - $90 cash is what farm labourer Tabu Bigirimana was paid yesterday for a workday that  ended in a terrible accident and a trip to a hospital. She was one of 10 African immigrant farm workers injured Monday night when the schoolbus taking them back to Montreal collided on a rural highway with a car driven by a local women, who died in the crash.

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