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Why Mexico’s Farmworkers Who Harvest Our Food Are on Strike

Sonali Kolhatkar Truthdig
As many as 50,000 mostly indigenous workers have stopped harvesting produce for more than a week in protest of labor law violations. What they want is for their basic needs to be met, such as obtaining health care, getting overtime pay and vacation days, and being paid wages higher than the dismal $8 a day that most of them earn.
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