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Omaha Steve

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Sat Mar 21, 2015, 09:31 AM Mar 2015

LA Times: Mexican farmworkers strike over low wages, blocking harvest ($8 a day)


http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-baja-farmworkers-20150320-story.html#page=1

ronica Zaragoza grew up in these coastal fields, picking berries and tomatoes and watching an industry being transformed.

She saw new greenhouses erected, irrigation lines spread through the fields, packing plants expanded and produce piled onto ever-larger trucks.

Everything in this fertile agricultural region 200 miles south of San Diego has changed, it seemed, except her wages. Zaragoza said she still earns 110 pesos per day, about $8 — a little more than when she started picking as a 13-year-old.

Zaragoza, now 26, joined thousands of pickers this week as they spilled onto the streets to protest low wages in a bold demonstration — the first strike by farmworkers here in decades.

FULL story and photos at link.

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LA Times: Mexican farmworkers strike over low wages, blocking harvest ($8 a day) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2015 OP
most of the factory border workers are also paid about $7-$8 a day. I can't imagine how to survive. Sunlei Mar 2015 #1

Sunlei

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1. most of the factory border workers are also paid about $7-$8 a day. I can't imagine how to survive.
Sat Mar 21, 2015, 09:57 AM
Mar 2015

I know it's retail price but one box of berries in the grocery store costs more then a days pay for the pickers.

Those are crazy-massive, profits when Corps and businesses use slave labor.

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