farmworkers
UAW plans new organizing drive with help from its friends
January 5, 2011The United Auto Workers is launching a new drive to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S., with the determined help of civil rights and other organizations.
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Another chicken and egg story
September 1, 2010Given the need to feed a growing world population, what kind of farming is viable and sustainable today?
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Factory farms produce more than eggs
August 24, 2010In the early 1970s, I took a job at a brand new "industrial" hen house in Indiana.
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According to the fruits of their labor
August 18, 2010A photo-essay about blueberry workers in eastern Maine by photojournalist David Bacon resurrected my own memories of picking blueberries in Maine as a young boy.
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Farmworkers fight for rights in the tobacco fields
August 4, 2010GREENSBORO, N.C. - Nine migrant farmworkers have died in fields across the state from heat stroke, and others suffer from nicotine poisoning and exposure to deadly chemicals.
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