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With Dignity: The Right to Rest and Leisure
From Lawrentian.com, Lawrence University, Marika Straw, Columnist, 21 Oct 2011. “Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with...
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Farmworkers Take Plea to Government
From PeoplesWorld.org, Mark Gruenberg, 21 Oct 2011. RALEIGH, N.C. – Fed up with years of terrible conditions in North Carolina fields, and a decade of neglect by that state’s pro-business labor...
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Feds: Margate Company Lured Haitians to U.S. with False Promises
From OrlandoSentinel.com, “Jon Burstein, Sun-Sentinel, 25 Oct 2011. FORT LAUDERDALE— The operator of a now-defunct Margate company promised steady-paying jobs to Haitian workers, but left them in the...
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Federal Judge Throws Out Discrimination Complaint Against Six Hawaii Farms
From HawaiiReporter.com, Malia Zimmerman, 26 Oct 2011. U.S. District Judge David Ezra dismissed a complaint today filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on April 20, 2011, against...
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Farm Workers at Risk: EEOC Wins NW Harassment Settlements
From CrossCut.com, Eric Scigliano, 26 Oct 2011. The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sues a series of Northwest employers for letting foremen harass and assault immigrant workers. Civil...
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Ramirez Targets Immigrants’ Plight
From TheDartmouth.com, Sophia Johnston, 28 Oct 2011. Monica Ramirez, director of the Immigrant Women’s Initiative at the Southern Poverty Law Center, urged students to take action against exploitation....
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Farmworkers Win Unfair Labor Practices Settlement
From SacBee.com, The Sacramento Bee, 29 Nov 2011. FRESNO, Calif. – A central California almond and grape grower will pay nearly $1 million in a settlement with farmworkers for unfair labor practices....
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Orchid Grower Paying $200K for Harassment
From BusinessWeek.com, 29 Nov 2011. OXNARD, CA — One of the nation’s largest orchid growers is paying $200,000 to settle a sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed by the federal...
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Vermont Human Rights Commission Hearing: State Police Discriminated Against...
From VTDigger.org, 1 Dec 2011. Natalia Fajardo, VT Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project, 802.497.7027/802-658-6770 Brendan O’Neill, VT Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project, 802.825.1609/802-658-6770...
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Justice for Farmworkers
From PCCNaturalMarkets.com, Joel Preston Smith, Jan 2012. January 2012 — Last July, when 16-year-old Nicholas Chavez collapsed in 106° F heat while picking bell peppers in Bakersfield, Calif., it was...
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