By Michelle Peirano Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – Francisco Duarte stood in the Arizona sun with little shade or water for hours, waiting to go pick lemons. But he never complained. That’s because the guest worker from San Luis, Mexico, was afraid that if he did he would be replaced by an undocumented worker willing [...]
Guest Voz: California farm workers still battling to have the same heat protections as animals
By Arturo S. Rodríguez LatinaLista If a motorist killed a person while driving drunk, would a police officer stop him and say, “You’re free to go, but next time you are going to jail?” As ludicrous as it sounds, that’s what is happening in California fields when a farm worker’s life is lost due to [...]
While nation obsesses over “eating healthy,” little thought spared for farmworkers’ hardships
LatinaLista — Eating healthy is all the rage these days in light of the exploding rates of obesity occurring across the nation. As anyone knows, eating healthy doesn’t just mean throwing less salt on our mashed potatoes or ripping open one less packet of sugar or even choosing foods whose labels tout them as non-fat. [...]
