themonitor.com
EDINBURG, Texas -- Isidro Aguilera-Zuniga traveled hundreds of miles from Central Mexico on the promise of a good job packing vegetables for $8.75 an hour. Instead, he was saddled with physically demanding work for lower wages.
Rosa Luna grew up on the promise of bountiful employment for hard-working U.S. citizens, but found agricultural companies doing anything they could to drive her away.
For years, Mexican migrant laborers like Aguilera-Zuniga and U.S. agricultural workers such as Luna have sparred for jobs, competed for wages and attacked each other from opposing sides of the labor market.
For now, though, the two have found something to agree upon.
They are fed up with employers playing them off each other and reaping financial rewards.
Posted by tyne at October 19, 2007