Episode 3: Feminist Organising across Migrant Agricultural and Care work (1/2) by Earthcare Fieldcast

This episode features conversations with the Sezonieri (AT) and Widerstand am Tellerrand (CH) campaigns for the rights of seasonal agricultural workers. How to organise with the migrant workers who do life-sustaining labours on temporary regimes? How can unions be pushed to take this seriously? This is one out of two episodes that focus on the connections between migrant labour struggles in agriculture and care: working conditions, strategies and networks of organising and struggle, and the kinds of feminist pedagogies that make this organizing so powerful. Care and agriculture have been deemed 'essential' work and much applauded in the pandemic, yet continue to be part of highly exploitative, alienated and toxic labour and production regimes. In this episode, we trace the strengths, alliances and feminist underpinnings of two campaigns that struggle for better conditions in industrial agriculture, building synergies with agroecology and feminism.

links:
Sezonieri (Austria) https://www.sezonieri.at/
UNDOK Support Bureau for Undocumented Migrants (Vienna) https://undok.at/
Widerstand am Tellerrand (Switzerland) https://www.widerstand-am-tellerrand.ch/
Respekt VPOD Domestic Care Workers Platform (Switzerland) https://respekt-vpod.ch/campa/netzwerk-respekt/
Care&Migrant workers organising workshops, Shedhalle Zuerich http://archiv2017.shedhalle.ch/en/324/COULD_YOU_CARE_LESS?
Recording of the Nyeleni Spring Meeting 2021 (online) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5lmeUkYB0g
Willkommen bei der Erdbeereente, booklet by Sezonieri (features interview with the small union Sarah mentions, L'Autre Syndicat) http://www.sezonieri.at/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Willkommen_bei_der_Erdbeerernte.pdf