I agree about the migrant workers; they do work in deplorable conditions.  Yet
I honestly don't know the solution, as if the farmers have to pay more wages
and upgrade conditions, the costs will be passed on to the consumers and food
costs will go up, triggering another price inflation.  Most of the farmers
here in NC are small farmers who can't afford to pay more for hiring the
workers; most of them are already deep in debt as it is.

Kat

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:10:00 EST Magenta Raine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The farmworkers union is still struggling to
> get basic needs met. Many
> farmworkers live in lean-to shacks with no
> water or plumbing or electricity.
> I daresay the people who pick our crops would
> not agree that osha helps them.
>  Without them America's tables would be quite
> bare, as Americans are not
> willing to do this hard, dirty work.
>
> Mag, (who does understand and agree about the
> dock workers)
>
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