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Can Big Business Improve the Plight of America's Farm Workers?
Tomato pickers in Florida have forged partnerships with major corporations to pressure growers to treat workers more humanely. Now Walmart has signed on to the program.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 51m ListenUndocumented farm workers face some of the harshest working conditions in the country, but tomato pickers in Immokolee, Florida have forged partnerships with major corporations to put pressure on growers to treat workers more humanely. Now in a surprising move, Walmart has signed on to their Fair Foods Program. Guest host Barbara Bogaev explores whether this anti-union retail behemoth will help bring fairer labor practices to the rest of the nation. Also, the EU follows the US in imposing sanctions on Russia. On today's Talking Point, is your cellphone protected by the constitution? The Supreme courts weighs in on police searches and everyone’s favorite digital device.
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4 storiesEU Follows US in Imposing Russia Sanctions
A day after the US announced its fourth round of sanctions on Russia, the European Union weighed in with its own list of assets freezes and visa bans on senior Russian military and political figures. The EU is Russia's largest trading partner. With oil and gas such a priority for Europe, will the US–EU alliance hold?
Read the story1 minNBA Goes All In on Pushing Clippers Owner Out
Today NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation. Silver also said that an investigation has confirmed that the man speaking in the recording was indeed Sterling.
Read the story8 minCan Big Business Improve the Plight of America's Farm Workers?
Migrant workers labor under conditions that some describe as a kind of indentured servitude and, until not that long ago, the very worst of the worst offenders were the tomato farms of Immokolee, Florida.
Read the story35 minComputer Literacy at the Supreme Court
What's in a cell phone? About one hundred times more information than all 72 thousand pages of James Madison's collected works. Today the Supreme Court considers whether police have the right to search a suspect's portable super-encyclopedia to their personal, financial, health and employments histories.
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