Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth is that most farmworkers' wages are far from substandard. Agricultural workers usually earn a base-pay hourly wage plus a piece rate for the amount of work they do. Payroll records on file with the California Department of Employment show that farmworkers were averaging from $4.50 to $ 5.50 an hour with piece rates before there was any farmworkers union...
...study in 1972 by the Arizona Ecumenical Council, a group of Protestant churches, found that grape pickers in California and Arizona averaged $8000 in annual wages with some as high as $15,000. Today, most grape pickers in California are under Teamster contract and earn $2.52 an hour plus piece rates...
Payroll records on file with the Internal Revenue Service and Federal Wage and Hour Commission show that lettuce averaged $6.44 an hour in 1972. The Washington Post reported in August 1972 that lettuce workers earn as much as $12,000 a year...
...farmworkers did not support Chavez and his strikes for many reasons. For one, he was not a farmworker himself. Also, he did not offer a substantial increase in wages (the contracts he finally signed in 1970 raised base pay ten cents an hour...
...time correspondent) for TIME and the Associated Press. Taken to a military prison, he was held incommunicado for three days before being allowed to talk to a U.S. consul and unreel his tale of horror: while shackled to the door of his cell, he was subjected to a 32-hour stretch of unrelenting beatings and shocks administered through electrodes attached to various parts of his body. Reports of torture in Brazil's military jails have circulated for a decade, but Morris is the first American newsman to experience it firsthand. His ordeal seemed related to a TIME story last...