Be Our Guests. David Bacon.
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Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 43Business. Publisher: Nation, 2004ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Alien labor | Alien labor certification | Blacklisting | Emigration and immigration -- Government policy | Emigration and immigration law | Employee rights | Migrant agricultural laborersDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Julio Cesar Guerrero came north from Mexico in the spring of 2001 as a temporary contract worker. Recruited by Manpower of the Americas, he was sent to North Carolina, where he began working on the tobacco farm of Anthony Smith. After a few weeks, his fingers started to hurt, and then, one by one, his fingernails began falling off. Although Smith told him he couldn't see a doctor, he went anyway. The doctor said his problem was possibly caused by working without gloves in fields sprayed with pesticides. So Guerrero, who was employed through the H2-A federal guest worker program, called Legal Aid of North Carolina. But Smith warned him not to talk with legal workers." (NATION) The article reveals schemes that many growers use against guest workers who are not aware of their legal rights or are asserting them.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Be Our Guests, Sept. 27, 2004; pp. 22+.
"Julio Cesar Guerrero came north from Mexico in the spring of 2001 as a temporary contract worker. Recruited by Manpower of the Americas, he was sent to North Carolina, where he began working on the tobacco farm of Anthony Smith. After a few weeks, his fingers started to hurt, and then, one by one, his fingernails began falling off. Although Smith told him he couldn't see a doctor, he went anyway. The doctor said his problem was possibly caused by working without gloves in fields sprayed with pesticides. So Guerrero, who was employed through the H2-A federal guest worker program, called Legal Aid of North Carolina. But Smith warned him not to talk with legal workers." (NATION) The article reveals schemes that many growers use against guest workers who are not aware of their legal rights or are asserting them.
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