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...safe option for Harvard if we care both about the conditions of the workers who pick the grapes pesticide levels on our grapes. With the no option, grapes will come to Harvard tables only when the working conditions are improved through the work of the United Farm Workers (UFW...
...status of California grapes and grape workers, there is no debating that the situation with both pesticides and working conditions have improved since the creation of the grape workers, there is no debating that the situation with both pesticides and working conditions have improved since the creation of the UFW by the late Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. Growers in mushrooms, roses and wine grapes have met their demands and have reached their desired standard of working conditions. However, in the field of table grapes, the situation has not improved enough...
...Coalition does not even take on one of the UFW's main assertions: workers are not free to unionize or to express grievances. The Coalition points to the small size of the union as proof that workers feel satisfied by conditions, but growers have routinely intimidated their workers with the threat of being fired to prevent them from participating. It is not good enough for individual Harvard students to choose each morning if grapes should be shunned; as student body we need to stand up and be heard, for the rights of those workers toiling away in California. Vote...
...Crimson fails to verify claims of this worker, such as the one that the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration "would not investigate [her rash] further."This worker was provided by the UFW, but The Crimson feels it could wait until the final sentence of the article to inform its readers of this...
...translator for this woman was the Vice President of the UFW--hardly a person without a stake in what the woman said. But none of this was surprising considering that the title itself is misleading: there is only one worker featured in the story. The Crimson's journalistic irresponsibility is disconcerting. --David M. Lehn...