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New New Report on Immigrant Workers Reveals Rampant Workplace Abuse
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New Report on Immigrant Workers Reveals Rampant Workplace Abuse

By Damarys Ocaña Perez | 01/04/2011 - 16:35 | 4 Comments

That grilled chicken salad that you ate for lunch? There’s a good chance that everything in it, from the tomatoes to the lettuce to the bird itself was picked or processed by a Latina. Some 640,000 women (mostly Latinas) perform farm work and another estimated 63,000 work in poultry farms and processing centers.

In both cases, women endure backbreaking work in return...

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