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    Mexican Farmworkers Halt Harvest to Fight for Better Wages

    For the first time in decades, Mexican farmworkers are on strike . They've walked away from fields in Baja, California that are the source of millions of tons of produce for the US every year. Late last year, Richard Marosi documented their working conditions in a series of reports for the Los Angeles Times .

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    By Warren Olney • Mar 20, 2015 • 1 min read

    For the first time in decades, Mexican farmworkers are on strike. They've walked away from fields in Baja, California that are the source of millions of tons of produce for the US every year. Late last year, Richard Marosi documented their working conditions in a series of reports for the Los Angeles Times.

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