Though these men, women, and too often children, feed our nation they typically work for poverty wages, in fields laced with pesticides, under a broiling sun. At day's end, they return to housing that can only be described as degrading to the human spirit. Only organized farmworkers can win the power needed to make structural changes in the agricultural industry.
Structural changes address the basic power relationships that drive modern agriculture.
Without a union for farmworkers, corporate processors have almost all the power, growers have a little, and farmworkers have none. With a union, processors and growers recognize that workers have legitimate interests, and bargaining rights to protect those interests. Unionized farmworkers no longer have to quietly accept pay and conditions that are dictated by corporate processors. No longer will they remain invisible and powerless, their lives measured by corporate balance sheets. This web site tells their story.