Besides, pesticides kill people, too: 300, 000 a year, most of them impoverished farm workers.
Even Cesar Chavez, the famed Californian farm workers' leader, never held off 80 gunslingers single-handed.
He'd look to increase the number of visas for permanent or seasonal farm workers.
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Schumer said New York has thousands of farm workers who are now in the country illegally.
The amount of food received by these farm workers hovered barely above the starvation level.
But why not also administer surveys via mobile phones to farm workers along the supply chain?
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In Brazil and Turkey, around half of non-farm workers are in the informal sector.
Farm workers were once compensated for their labour in wine, with disastrous health consequences.
We're the gardeners and housekeepers, the gang leader and drug dealers, the nannies and farm workers.
Lola points to an old man shuffling quietly at the edge of the group of farm workers.
The farm workers toil under vast seas of plastic sheeting that swamps the landscape in every direction.
There they have visited the site of an abandoned sugar-mill and met farm workers and their families.
Such a level of care for farm workers is very much the exception rather than the rule.
The H-2A visa controversy involving farm workers exemplifies labor's mixed bag as much as any other issue.
However, for farm workers, there was a major problem: it also reduced wages for H-2A visa holders.
Farm workers are in line for a pay rise of between 1.8% and 2.8% from October this year.
Tributes have been paid to two farm workers who died on a Conservative peer's country estate in Hampshire.
I've taught the kids of poor farm workers, but I've also taught the kids of doctors and lawyers.
One of their recent clinics is in Salinas, CA (a farming community) and caters to farm workers .
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One House member, California's Dana Rohrabacher said yesterday: let prisoners pick the fruit in place of undocumented farm workers.
On the Latino side, he created the first state board to look after the interests of migrant farm workers.
Most of the rescued women were hired as farm workers by local men and were being sexually abused, Rishikant says.
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America and a lifelong advocate for civil rights, workers, and women.
The crowd included students who skipped school, but farm workers and their families were by far the most prominent group.
Ms. DOLORES HUERTA (Cofounder, United Farm Workers): You know, they're going to say, well, these are all undocumented people marching.
It is important to note the new legislation on farm workers has not earned the support of most agriculture organizations.
Rubio and Bennet worked with non "Group of Eight" members Hatch and Feinstein on issues relating to undocumented farm workers.
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Texans Ruben , Daniel and David Perez , the sons of migrant farm workers, worked in the fields as children.
Dolores Huerta, one of the cofounders of the United Farm workers, was here to celebrate her birthday and also to march.
Under the Bracero program for Mexican farm workers in the 1940s and '50s, unlawful border crossings fell by more than 80%.
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