Migrant Agricultural Workers

You Say Tomato, I Say Raw Deal!

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 05.25.2011

Frances Moore Lappe

2010-10-12-tomatoes.jpgTo get the minimum wage, a tomato worker has to pick more than 2.25 tons of tomatoes during a day that begins before dawn and lasts 10-12 hours.

Immigrant Sheepherders' Plight Drawing Attention Of Legislators, Activists

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.25.2011

WAMSUTTER, Wyo. — Alone and thousands of miles from home, the immigrant sheepherder roams some of the West's most desolate and frigid landscapes...