Sentences with phrase «plantation workers work»

Worker Exploitation: Many banana plantation workers work long hours in difficult conditions - handling pesticides and herbicides without sufficient protection - for low wages and poor job security.

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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.

Palsgaard has been a member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) since 2008, and sees the topic of sustainability as an essential issue for protecting the global environment, upholding biodiversity and providing suitable working conditions for local plantation workers.

Told from the perspective of impetuous and inquisitive 10 - year - old orphan Sugar, Turpin's energetic performance depicts life on a Louisiana plantation in 1870, where sharecroppers work as slaves and newly acquired Chinese workers represent unwelcome competition.

Read more >> A Wedding in Haiti by Julia Alvarez Algonquin, $ 22.95, 304 pages In her humorous and poignant memoir of a wedding and an earthquake in the Dominican Republic, novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents) attempts to answer this question as she tells the tale of a young worker on her coffee plantation, Piti, and his efforts to make a life by traveling from his home in Haiti to work in the neighboring country.

The plantation workers were usually hired as needed and paid by the «task» - work covering 75 feet by 75 feet - except when they were contracted for longer periods; then they were paid a regular salary

Elements of the work include wall text around war, imperialism, and democracy, historical footage of US militarization contrasted with the ruins of contemporary bases, forms of labor and production in the industries of mining, fishing, and banana plantation interspersed with interviews with workers, and a lush, dreamlike, and perpetually dissolving set of landscapes set against some of Dizon's own reflections on life, death, land, return and passage.

The artists in the Congolese Plantation Workers Art League (Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise or CATPC) know this well; they all work on plantations or once did, cultivating resources for multinational conglomerates.

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.

For more information on this sculpture (the profits from which will allow the plantation workers - cum - artists to buy back their land), see Amelia Ames's coverage of the best three - dimensional works at The Armory.

«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.

Though there has been some controversy surrounding its effectiveness, the RSPO works with some 300 member companies to help ensure that no more rainforest is chopped down for palm oil plantations, that all plantations minimize their environmental impact, and that the rights of local people and plantation workers are respected in producing palm oil.