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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Farm union helps in recruiting and hiring immigrant workers

Farm union helps in recruiting and hiring immigrant workers
Source: Houston Chronicle
AT a time when the debate about the issue of migrant workers has never been louder, Baldemar Velasquez's union already may have found one answer. The muscular 59-year-old grandfather heads the Toledo, Ohio-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee, composed of about 8,000 undocumented workers and another 6,000 Mexicans recruited for short-term work.

 



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