Word: wages
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ferrara argues that "most farmworkers' wages are far from substandard," and quotes wage figures of $8000, $12,000 and $15,000 per year. He claims the far lower wage figures usually cited are the result of (1) aggregating part-time workers and full-time workers, thus artificially lowering average earnings, and (2) failing to include earnings from piece rates which he claims are a substantial element of farmworker income. Neither of these assertions in remotely defensible...
Thus, the long-run implications of the current dispute must be weighed even more heavily than immediate wage gains. Many argue that the Teamsters now offer a better deal to the farmworker than the UFW. The Teamsters are rich, well-established and cozy with management, and in the short run they may well offer higher wages and better benefits than the UFW can. But the Teamsters Union already includes in its ranks cannery and packing-shed workers as well as truckers. Adding the field worker to this network would give the Teamsters virtual control of labor from the fields...
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture publication, "Hired Farm Working Force of 1972," 55 per cent of migratory farm laborers did only farm wage work and earned $1654 in 1972. Those who also did non-farm work made $2798 a year, a far cry from the figures claimed by some (the lowest being $7000 per year). Growers often have their pet farm workers testify to fanciful salaries...
...Arizona are. I have some knowledge of the history of agricultural developments in the Golden State, of its undemocratic system of land ownership and farming. The story of migratory labor from the early Chinese to the Mexicans is as old as California itself. Workers' exploitation, racism, red-baiting, wage-fixing by agricultural employers, violent repression of the civil rights of farm workers with the active collaboration of the police and the courts, tax-payers' subsidies used to boost the profits of landlords and agribusinesses, from the story of Owens Valley ("Chinatown") to the West Side swindle and the importation...
...Philadelphia and easy access to lumber supplies in the Northwest have held prices down there. On the other hand, high land values-a reflection of population density, strict zoning, building regulations and environmental measures-have inflated building costs on the East Coast and in Southern California. Generous union wage scales help to escalate the price of a house in the New York City suburbs far above the cost of a comparable residence in Denver or Seattle, and home buyers in Boston and San Francisco pay extra for the desirability of those cities. The current average price of a used, single...