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Friday, July 01, 2022

Why🥂wine🍷why🔥

Why can't lots of wineries provide their customers with detailed information about how the workers should be treated and respected? Hmmm.

"California vineyard laborers wanted wildfire safety. Then came a shadowy counter-movement"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/11/california-vineyard-laborers-wildfire-safety

"Blacklisted for Speaking Up: How California Farmworkers Fighting Abuses Are Vulnerable to Retaliation" | KQED

https://www.kqed.org/news/11918317/blacklisted-for-speaking-up-how-california-farmworkers-fighting-abuses-are-vulnerable-to-retaliation

“The program is really closer to a kind of indentured servitude that we had in prior decades under sharecropper relationships post-emancipation,” she added. “There is such a dependency that the worker has on the employer and you can't really say that they're free to engage in activity anywhere else.”

~ C. Rice

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