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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: UFW's Romero: Why Farm Workers Suffer and How They Can Bring About Change
Description: The January mass shooting in Half Moon Bay brought to light the intolerable conditions in which farmworkers often still live and work. Almost 40 years after Cesar Chavez’s renowned 1984 Commonwealth Club speech, his successor as president of the United Farm Workers Union, Teresa Romero, joins us to discuss the hardships and exploitation agricultural laborers face. She will address the progress achieved by the United Farm Workers Union, and the important work that remains to be done to improve their work and living conditions.The first Latina and first immigrant woman to become president of a national union in...