Friday, July 29, 2011

Facts About Immigrant Women Working in the U.S. Food Industry

Undocumented Immigrants
-There are 4.1 million non registered femaels in the untied states.
-Legalizing undocumented workers would raise the united states gross domestic product by $1.5 trillion.

Farmworkers
-children young as 10 work on the feilds.
- many states exempt farmworker children from compulsory education laws.

Poultry Workers
-Almost a quarter of the workers who process meat, chicken and fish are not lleagal.
-Working in a chicken factory is one of the most dangerous jobs in america.


Sexual Abuse On the Job
-In a recent study of 150 women of Mexican imagrents working in the fields in California, 80% said they had  sexual harassment problems.
-  virtually all women reported that sexual violence in the workplace is a serious problem.

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