Monday, March 25, 2013

Farmworker Awareness Week March 26


Farmworker Awareness Week March 23-31, 2013

Another need for migrant workers  is  . . . 

WORKER UNITY
TUESDAY MARCH 26

“In 1966, Cesar Chavez and a group of strikers set out on a 340-mile march from Delano to Sacramento to draw attention to the plight of farm workers, and during this strike the union won its first contract.” (http://nfwm.org/campaigns/ufw/).
Since Chavez’s time, more and more farmworkers have begun to learn about and fight for their right to collective bargaining, safer working conditions, better wages, fair housing, and more access to health care. And yet hundreds more, if not thousands, are left vulnerable and exploited by the system that uses their labor, yet keeps them in poverty. Migrant and seasonal farmworkers do the important work that feeds America - the work upon which we all depend.  Today, many farmworkers are immigrants with language barriers, low education levels, and obstacles of immigration status. We must stand in unity with workers and support their right to self-determination and to a life with dignity.
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