Sentences with phrase «plantation workers who»

It is an authentic community whose friendly long - time residents go back generations to sugar plantation workers who were immigrants largely from Japan and the Philippines.

The article also quotes anecdotal evidence that cancer is rarer among sugar cane plantation workers who consume this substance regularly.

necdotal evidence that cancer is rarer among sugar cane plantation workers who consume this substance regularly.

After the event, Laidre heard a story from a local plantation worker who had witnessed something similar a couple of years earlier.

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Its roots are in the experience of 19th - century sugar - cane plantation workers, who in pidgin English told stories of common suffering and hope.

No one really knows why macaroni salad became a staple of the Hawaiian plate lunch and luaus; some say it came from the plantation workers, while others give credit to the Portuguese fishermen who worked the whaling boats from the Islands.

They wrote poetry about the workers, created graphs based on the data they collected, conducted online research, wrote letters to strawberry growers and government agencies requesting additional information, had online exchanges with students in Puerto Rico who were studying coffee - plantation conditions, and gave a community presentation to share their findings.

KOW gallerist Raphael Oberhuber, who shows work by a collective of Congolese plantation workers known as CATPC, said he approved of the shift in strategy for the section.

«This is the first time any case for a banana worker has come before a U.S. court,» Duane Miller, one of the attorneys representing more than 30 Nicaraguan plaintiffs who worked on plantations from 1964 to 1990, tells BusinessWeek.According to one upcoming lawsuit that was filed in 2004, Dole Fresh Fruit Co. and Standard Fruit Co., now part of Dole, were not only negligent, but that they fraudulently concealed information about DBCP's effects.