Word: harvests
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...Senate Sub-committee on Migratory Labor indicated that only 10-25 per cent of all farmworkers worked on a piece rate basis and that, at a maximum, a worker might earn 50 per cent above the hourly wage by piece rate.) Second, because piece rates are available only at harvest a laborer must follow the crop in order to maximize piece rate earnings. Third, weather and crop conditions must be excellent in order for a worker to make any significant amount of money on a piece rate basis...
Moreover, many of the UFW's own regulations cut the working time of the farmworkers. For example, the UFW has prevented pickers from working overtime during peak harvest seasons. Teen-age children of the farmworkers had formerly found summer employment in the fields, but the UFW no longer allowed this. The union also ordered periodic slowdowns which lowered the pay of workers mainly dependent of piece rates...
...California wines now arriving on the market are the best available in quantity. "For the first time in this or any other country," says a California wine-industry consultant, Louis R. Gomberg, "there is going to be a tremendous abundance of high-quality grapes. The consumer will harvest a wine-crop bounty the like of which has never before been seen...
...testimony of one state official. But according to L.A. Times reporters, the UFW strikes have had overwhelming support from the workers. They reported that in 1973, over 90% of the grape workers in the Coachella Valley struck, despite the best efforts of the growers and the Teamsters. And Inter-Harvest, California's largest lettuce grower, was forced to admit, "The Teamsters have our contracts, but the UFW has our workers." (Nation, 9/3/73...
...from last year, but they are the cheerful exception. Floods, drought and early fall frost have sharply reduced crops. The Agriculture Department, which raised the hopes of foreign buyers by grossly overestimating the size of the crop earlier this year, released its latest forecasts last week. The corn harvest may come to 4.7 billion bushels, down 16% from last year; and soybeans to 1.3 billion bushels, down...