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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

MMBeilis

(455 posts) Wed May 22, 2024, 08:02 PM May 2024

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Nothing ever seems to get better for farm workers. Now we have Chinese immigrants opening mushroom.... [View all]

......farms, importing Chinese citizens as cheap labor, cheating them on wages and overtime and warehousing them in shipping containers. It's like Cezar Chavez never existed.
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Nothing ever seems to get better for farm workers. Now we have Chinese immigrants opening mushroom.... [View all] MMBeilis May 2024 OP

If these are the conditions the workers were kept in, what kind of yucky conditions were the mushrooms grown in? NBachers May 2024 #1

No kidding DENVERPOPS May 2024 #2

The owners of 2 mushroom farms in northern Calif where a disgruntled employee shot and killed seven people last riversedge May 2024 #3

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