Saturday, February 01, 2020

Thank you for breakfast

Yogurt,

"New York found that 69 farmworkers died while working in New York's dairy industry between 2006 and 2016."

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Court-rules-New-York-farmworkers-have-right-to-13881488.php

eggs,

"His own future is similarly unclear — what’s the next step after starting as a dairy farmer and ending up as a labor activist?

'I don’t know my destiny,' Hernandez says."

https://documentedny.com/2018/08/17/farmworkers-struggle-to-unionize-in-new-york-crispin-hernandez-may-change-that/

butter...

"In addition to low wages and little to no job security, they experience high rates of poverty, food insecurity, sexual harassment, and mental health challenges. The group has one of the lowest unionization rates of any sector and only four farmworker unions exist today, covering just a tiny fraction of the more than 1 million hired farmworkers who toil on American farms and dairies."

https://civileats.com/2019/05/07/less-than-1-percent-of-us-farmworkers-belong-to-a-union-heres-why/

Is this true?

No comments: