“The federal exclusions complicating #farmworkers fight to unionize were rooted in #racism & notably put the agricultural industry and consumers ahead of worker rights, according to a federal history documenting farmworker struggle and other historians and policy experts…” #UnionStrong https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/advocates-ramp-up-support-in-seattle-for-farmworker-union-recognition/
“When the National Labor Relations Act was passed in 1935, Black sharecroppers were doing most of the agricultural work in the South, and Asian and Latino workers were working in the West.” #WorkersRights #SystemicRacism