Contractors Work Providers or Abusers
Contratistas: Work Providers or Abusers? My problem is the contratistas (labor contractors) continual abuse of immigrants that come from Mexico to California; I believe it is wrong. I am trying to address any reader of this essay in order to further educate and make clear that the abuse of immigrants is not right. The immigrants' wages have fallen while the profits have hit a record high. The immigrants' are also continuously cheated out of their wages by the contratistas. Farmers' medical benefits have decreased and in some places disappeared, and the laborers are forced to live in overrun and overcrowded houses. According to a San Jose Mercury News article called Farm workers face hard times; Middlemen maximize profits by paying as little as possible written by John Hubner published on July 8, 2000 "30 years ago, 80 to 90 percent of seasonal farm hands in California worked directly for growers,"(Hubner) however today only half do while "the rest are employed by about 1,200 farm labor contractors, or contratistas" (Hubner). The federal minimum wage is $5.15 an hour, however half of the labor contractors fail to pay that and "...20 percent of the grape growers who hire their workers directly sometimes failed to pay mi
According to Hubner the barracks were ". Leo Chavez writes of such in incident in his book called Shadowed Lives: Undocumented Immigrants in American Society. wages have actually fallen in the last ten years considering inflation" (Brown). " When the state inspector began to enforce the violation the ". 22 per 100,000" (Hubner) workers making it second only mining and quarrying. Tanis Ybarra, the national vice president of the UFW said, ". Chavez mentions another incident in which a worker, which he calls Manuel, constantly keeps complaining about feeling sick and attributing his sickness to the exposure of pesticides and fertilizers. The Bureau also found that in 1998 the rate of agriculture related deaths was ". The United Farm Workers or the UFW stated in an article published in the Jinn website called A Frontier Town in the Strawberry Labor Wars written by David Bacon, that ". The wages of laborers have also fallen in the past decade. Then my patron took me in his truck and I thought he was taking me to a doctor. By becoming a person of sorts in the agricultural industry the contratistas receive a steady flow of labor contracts by the farm owners thus providing the workers a steady job.
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