NEW REPORT RELEASED | Milked: Immigrant Farmworkers in New York State
Propelled by the much-heralded “yogurt boom,” New York’s dairy production and processing industry generates $14 billion a year and is the star sector of the state’s agricultural economy. But a new study, to be released June 1st—at the start of National Dairy Month—finds that a race to the bottom is occurring in the treatment and working conditions of the immigrant laborers who toil in milking parlors and barns.
On Thursday, June 1st at 12:30 p.m. at Workers’ Center of Central New York at 2013 E. Genesee St. Syracuse, NY 13210, Rebecca Fuentes, co-author of report & lead organizer with the Workers’ Center of CNY Crispin and Hernandez, former dairy farmworker & lead plaintiff in groundbreaking case Hernandez v. State of New York, Gretchen Purser, co-author of report & Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University will hold a press conference to launch the new report Milked: Immigrant Farmworkers in New York State
The report will present its main findings, and highlight strategies for ameliorating the working and living conditions of immigrant farm workers in the dairy industry.
For more information, contact: Rebecca Fuentes at 315-657-6799 (cell) Carly Fox at 585-500-9409 (cell) Gretchen Purser at 415-225-7108 (cell)
