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Immigrant farm workers' challenge: Take our jobs

by JustinHammond » Fri Jun 25, 2010 11:43 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_ ... e_our_jobs

This topic has been covered a few times, but this article brings up some more hardships faced by immigrant farm workers.

expect long days
Farm workers are excluded from federal overtime provisions
small farms don't even have to pay the minimum wage
Fifteen states don't require farm labor to be covered by workers compensation laws.
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