Word: worker
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Today, more than 15 campus groups are coming together to sponsor a talk concerning the working conditions of strawberry farm workers in California. Speakers will include Professors Cornel West and John Womack, long-time activist Sister Tess Browne and two worker activists. The talk is meant to raise awareness on campus of the attempts to unionize strawberry workers by the United Farm Workers...
...scale agribusiness companies and are a far cry from the idealized picture of "family-owned-and-operated" farms. They can afford to sacrifice profits on a season's crops, destroying the workplace to eliminate the union along with it. These farms later move their operations to neighboring fields and worker activists are "permanently" replaced...
...people of the U.S. had never been so prosperous. Never before had the breadwinner taken home so much money; in March and April, after-tax pay of the average factory worker with three dependents was around $70 a week. Not since the first delirious, mistaken weeks after V-J day had there been so much expectancy--with caution, this time--for peace. The fishing was good too. In the gulf, off the coast of Louisiana, speckled trout were swarming in the bays and bayous, and tarpon appeared a full month earlier than usual. Said Bill Tugman, editor of the weekly...
...told the Washington Post that he found "nothing inappropriate" about investigating the prosecutors. So McCurry was left to reconcile a contradiction not even of his own making. When his colleagues on the communications team saw him emerge from the roomful of reporters "rocked, beat up," as a co-worker put it, they were furious on his behalf...
...Only" full-gauge double steel door in the corner of the store. Then she talks to the overlord they call "the manager," (an investigation of Blodgett's workplace during her absence reveals a small black box with hundreds of blinking lights, each possibly representing the heartbeat of a co-worker) and essentially disappears...