Word: grapes
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Receiving less money for their grapes, the employers will either cut down on employment, leaving already destitute grape pickers unemployed, or will lower the quality of life for the grape pickers even more. The only party that stands to profit from the boycott is the United Farm workers Union, and the union benefits at the cost of all non-unionized workers. By claiming that supporting the boycott somehow upholds human rights, the dean's office makes the implicit statement that only unionized grape pickers have human rights, a statement that ought to be rejected by all thinking human beings...
Here in snowy Cambridge, California may seem like a sunny paradise--but after 32 years as a California grape worker, Rosa Felipe says life in the grape vines remains extremely harsh...
...these procedures are both labor-intensive and crucial to the creation of a saleable table grape. Without a well-trained, well-paid and satisfied workforce, Kovacevich says, he could not produce quality fruit...
Adam Kovacevich says that he finds it surprising when Harvard students claim that working conditions in the grape farms...
...Obviously I am not a farm worker, but I have worked on a grape farm and I see what goes on first-hand, and that makes it sort of disappointing that the rhetoric has caught on," he says