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Members of the ad hoc Grape Coalition, which wants to remove the boycott, meet in advance of the upcoming referendum. More than 20 students attend the planning session, led by Adam R. Kovacevich '99, chair of the Coalition and son of a California grape grower...
...work is so painstaking, Kovacevich says, that most growers insist on having women do the pre-harvest work...
...harvest time, Kovacevich employs about 400 workers at $5.75 per hour, plus an extra 20 cents per box. Because Kern Country employs more than 25,000 pickers in the harvest months, some workers arrive from Texas and Mexico, but Kovacevich says his workforce is still 75 percent local...
Quincy House junior Adam Kovacevich, who worked on his father's farm for three harvests, said that in his experience, the working conditions on his father's non-union farm did not appear...
...Adam Kovacevich says that he finds it surprising when Harvard students claim that working conditions in the grape farms...