Enable java in your browser. Or use the links below. Send us your Feedback For our privacy policy, click here . For our user agree- ment, click here . Yet, these are the workers most likely to be abused by labor contractors and employers.
Housing is often part of that abuse.
But there are new options for growers who don't want to be slumlords. In an article in The Sunday Oregonian, staff writer Alex Pulaski again described the deplorable conditions in which many migrant workers live. Farm workers usually don't know their rights, and complaining can cost them their jobs. Moreover, the standards are so low that many camps escape without any fines. Startlingly, none of the violations at Kraemer Farms was considered serious enough to merit a fine by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division.