agriculture

  • Florida Tomato Pickers Score ‘Greatest Victory’ in Decades
    Sean Sellers
    Oct 6 2009 - 5:08pm

    After two years of delay, farmworkers in Florida will finally start getting a penny more per pound for tomatoes they pick.

  • More Forced Labor Found in Florida

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    The U.S. Department of Justice reports a new case of forced labor in Florida agriculture. This is the seventh confirmed case of forced labor in the last decade in the state.

    The report describes poor working conditions as well as workers being chained to poles, beaten, robbed, and locked inside trucks. A 17-count federal indictment outlines how a dozen workers living on a farm were forced to sleep in trucks and shacks, went unpaid for their work, and had to pay for food and showers. The cases were reported at the Six L’s and Pacific Tomato Growers farms. Both the farms are certified by the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange Socially Accountable Farm Employers program, which is supposed to prevent labor abuses.

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    Thu, 04/30/2009 - 8:59pm