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...room Ritz last week, there were fewer than 40 guests. Because of fears for the country's economic stability, Portugal's 2 million workers abroad have cut back sharply on the funds they customarily send home. In a television broadcast last week, Premier Gonçalves exhorted migrant workers to pay no heed "to the defamatory and reactionary campaigns of certain organs of information" and to come home and "verify that the country is happier than the sad Portugal you used to know...
...would average about $4.50-$5.00/hour, closers $5-6/hour and loaders $6-8/hour. On good days hourly rates would go up about $3-4 more per hour for each job--which meant faster and harder work, not unbearable though. When I read about the extreme poverty that migrant lettuce workers live in I ask myself where because it's not in the Salinas Valley. All of my co-workers live in decent conditions, I know of no one that doesn't have a bathroom, running water, etc. Too many people do not know what farmworkers' conditions are like...
...living conditions, Mr. Ferrara focuses on the issue of whether laborers are "migrant," which he defines to mean without a permanent residence. He ignores the considerable data on the poor working conditions, health, education and housing of farm laborers and seems to imply that if workers have a permanent place o residence living and working conditions will be adequate. This is as factually incorrect as it is logically unsound...
...connection between permanence of residence and the conditions under which farm laborers live and work. For example, many California farmworkers with permanent residences must follow the harvests up the California valleys for as many as eight months a year, enduring the deprivations of labor camp life, despite their "non-migrant" status...
...attempt to portray the farm laborer as a "non-migrant" blunt the reality of both HEW's and the Department of Labor's findings that...