In less than a minute, the chairs are pulled up in a circle, and Tenneriello is outlining the material on the calendar. One man, flipping quickly through the calendar, reads a section on civil rights and asks if it is true that you do not have to present a green card to the police during a traffic stop. Gaytan assures him that this is so. The farmworkers are young men and women, looking to be in their teens and twenties, all originally from Guerrero state on Mexico's southern Pacific coast. They maintain an address in Tampa, Florida, and this is their first summer in Michigan.
None appears to speak any English.
There are two small children with the group. Tenneriello asks what sort of work they are doing, and mentions that they should always keep track of their hours, insist upon written pay records. Most of Tenneriello's job involves helping laborers with wage disputes.