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  • noun Plural form of farmworker.

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Examples

  • Farm workers were excluded from key New Deal labor protections, including the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. And, the seasonal and unpredictable nature of agricultural work mean that average unemployment among farmworkers is double those of wage and salary workers.

    Frances Moore Lappe: You Say Tomato, I Say Raw Deal! Frances Moore Lappe 2010

  • Farm workers were excluded from key New Deal labor protections, including the National Labor Relations Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act. And, the seasonal and unpredictable nature of agricultural work mean that average unemployment among farmworkers is double those of wage and salary workers.

    Frances Moore Lappe: You Say Tomato, I Say Raw Deal! Frances Moore Lappe 2010

  • However, Pieterse said this had not happened because "the farmworkers are the owners" and were disputing Immelman's claim to the land.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Page 71 from day to day to day, yes, the farmworkers are a very important thing, but my eating lettuce will not do anything right now.

    Oral History Interview with Igal Roodenko, April 11, 1974. Interview B-0010. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

  • The bill also overturns a 5-year ban on eligibility for children who are legal immigrants, and it directs the HHS Secretary to develop a model process for interstate coordination of Medicaid / CHIP enrollment and coverage of eligible individuals such as farmworkers and disaster evacuees, who move from state to state.

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • The bill also overturns a 5-year ban on eligibility for children who are legal immigrants, and it directs the HHS Secretary to develop a model process for interstate coordination of Medicaid / CHIP enrollment and coverage of eligible individuals such as farmworkers and disaster evacuees, who move from state to state.

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • The bill also overturns a 5-year ban on eligibility for children who are legal immigrants, and it directs the HHS Secretary to develop a model process for interstate coordination of Medicaid / CHIP enrollment and coverage of eligible individuals such as farmworkers and disaster evacuees, who move from state to state.

    Political Affairs Magazine 2009

  • The bank's Community Development Finance (CDF) division provides financing to developers that build housing throughout the United States for a variety of low - to moderate-income populations, including working families and individuals with special needs, such as farmworkers, the homeless and seniors.

    CSRwire.com 2009

  • After I was appointed to chair the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, I took one trip to California at the invitation of César Chávez, who was starting to organize a union for farmworkers.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • After I was appointed to chair the Senate Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, I took one trip to California at the invitation of César Chávez, who was starting to organize a union for farmworkers.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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