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...People tend to make [the grape boycott] an issue of race, and instead it's an issue of human rights and worker's conditions," Saldivar said...
...disagreement between two students over the grape boycott escalated into an e-mail exchange between two campus organizations early Saturday afternoon...
...incident occurred almost one week before tomorrow's campus-wide vote on whether Harvard Dining Services should end its 13-year boycott and begin to serve grapes in the dining halls...
Saldivar said that the student claimed he was a Republican and had read an e-mail from a Republican organization that said that the grape boycott...
...boycott that is effective today, however, the international table grape boycott, was issued by the UFW in 1984 to continue to fight for humane working conditions. But little has changed since the first and second boycot. Nearly one-third of the workforce is under 16 years old, and many of these workers paid less than minimum wage. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that the average income of a farm worker's family is less than $5,000 a year. Farmworkers are seldom supplied with toilets or even drinking water while working...