Paying food’s costs I congratulate you on publishing “Slapping the Hands that Feed Us: Migrant Farm Workers Fight for Basic Rights,” by Joseph Sorrentino. The article presents an honest picture of the realities of farm workers in New York State. While noting farmer resistance to improving the legal and financial status of farm workers, Sorrentino […]
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Slapping the hands that feed us
There’s a beauty and grace to picking cabbage. On a Brockport farm on a sunny June morning, men and machine move synchronously to harvest the crop. The pickers, three men ranging in age from early 30s to mid-40s, are bent over, slowly walking backward as a tractor continually pushes a large crate toward them. […]
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Farmworkers fight for rights
No overtime pay. No regularly scheduled day off. No disability insurance. No right to collective bargaining. Welcome to the life of a migrant farmworker. At the beginning of the 21st century, they are still subjected to antiquated labor laws. About 200 people marched in Fairport in support of a bill under consideration in the state […]
