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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. American shame.
Tue Jan 20, 2015, 08:26 PM
Jan 2015

This is pure government-supported exploitation. We all share complicity. We want cheap fruits and vegetables at the grocery store, US or other source of exploitation, so most of us turn a blind eye.

From link:

"Federal law has never covered farmworkers, and outside of California, no state has a law giving farmworkers a legal process for recognition and bargaining. Those few union agreements that exist outside the state have been the product of years long campaigns and boycotts."

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