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Female farm workers in the U.S. and the hell they endure (eluniversal.com.mx)
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From 2015:
"A federal jury awarded almost US$17.5 million to five former female employees of a South Florida farm who said they were either raped and sexually harassed at a vegetable packing plant, their lawyer and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said on Thursday.Three men, including two sons of the owner of Moreno Farms, near Fort Myers in southwest Florida, were accused of sexual harassment in 2011 and 2012 against the women in coolers and an office trailer at the packing house, including rape, groping, kissing and threats they would be fired if they refused to have sex with supervisors, according to the legal complaint brought against Moreno Farms.
However, the women are unlikely to receive a penny as the packing house closed after the case was brought and the men were never arrested, said a lawyer for the women, Victoria Mesa Estrada.
"It's more of a symbolic victory," Mesa Estrada said. 'The women knew that when the case was brought. But for them it was a question of justice.'"
~ Reuters
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