The Miami-based company agreed to pay them one cent more for every pound (450g) of tomatoes they pick, and to improve their working conditions.

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Gaining legal status "would make it much easier for these workers to join together and improve their working conditions by joining a union, " said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the SEIU, who labeled passage of immigration legislation as the union's top priority this year.

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In order to improve the quality of education, as registered in UNESCO report of the International Commisson of Education for the 21st Century, "Education: the treasure within": it is necessary, above all, to improve the teachers' recruitment, education, social status and their working conditions.

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