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...United Stanford Workers (USW) have filed a lawsuit against Stanford University and Webb Ranch, charging the school with unfair labor practices against Mexican employees of the ranch, officials said last week...
Because the ranch is on land leased from Stanford, the university is "liable for the exploitation of the Mexican workers," USW representative Reuban Serna charged last week...
...weeks ago, a state official visited the ranch to investigate the complaints of the workers and found several violations of California health codes, university lawyer Michael Vartain said...
...filed papers with the state's Agriculture and Labor Relations Board two weeks ago after the ranch workers, complaining of poor labor and housing conditions, asked the USW help them organize, Serna said...
...most serious allegation facing MacDonald -- who has yet to respond to a committee subpoena -- concerns a tawdry kickback scam. In July 1987 MacDonald arranged for the Navajos to buy the 491,000-acre Big Boquillas ranch near Seligman, Ariz. The tribe paid $33.4 million for the place, which only two days earlier had been purchased by an oil company for $26.2 million. Real estate broker Byron ("Bud") Brown testified that when he was fixing the deal with MacDonald, the Navajo leader smiled and said, "I assume I'll be taken care of." Replied Brown: "Certainly...