Building Bridges: Equality for NY Farmworkers - 28:37
Farmworkers Declare, We Put the Food on Your Table
Isn’t It Time We Got to
Share in the Bounty?
featuring.
. Pablo
Cruz and Heriberto Gonzalez NYS farm workers
. Rev. Richard Witt, Executive
Director Rural & Migrant Ministry
. State Senator Adriano Espaillat
.
NYS Assemblywoman Cathy Nolan
. Cardinal Timothy Dolan
. Kerry Kennedy,
Pres., Robert Kennedy Center for Human Rights
. Jose Calderon, President,
Hispanic Federation
Hey, what about the
fact that those who grow the food that feeds us, farmworkers don’t get even
one day a week off to rest after from their toil? And, they don’t have the
right to organize and bargain collectively; nor are there basic standards
under the Sanitary Code for farmworkers living quarters; nor do farmworkers
get unemployment pay when they’re laid off or terminated; and they’re not
entitled to workers’ compensation if they’re injured on the job; nor can
they receive disability benefits when they are unable to work due to illness
or injury. And, they sure don’t receive overtime pay when they’re forced to
work more than an eight hour day. Why is this? Well, in the 1930s, farmworkers and domestic workers were left out of the New Deal due to pressure from the descendants of slaveholders. Eighty years later,
farmworkers remain excluded for fundamental labor protections and benefits in New York and now they’re marching throughout NYS with the Rural and Migrant Ministry to end this injustice and demand that the state senate and Gov. Cuomo bring the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act to the floor for a vote to be included in basic labor rights afforded other workers.
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