CRLA advocacy is featured in the most recent edition of The American Prospect

“As Common As Dirt: In the Fields of California, Wage Theft is How Agribusiness is Done,” details the case of CRLA’s client Ignacio Villalobos from Imperial County.

Photo by David Bacon.

“As Common As Dirt: In the Fields of California, Wage Theft is How Agribusiness is Done,” details the case of CRLA’s client Ignacio Villalobos from Imperial County.

Ignacio Villalobos has been a farmworker for nearly 70 years starting as a young boy in Texas with his family. Author Tracie McMillan, takes a closer look at the life and wages of a Coachella migrant farmworker and spotlights some of the challenges of low-income workers in rural areas.

In April 2012, CRLA filed a lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Villalobos. The lawsuit claims that the grower, Calandri SonRise Farms, along with a number of its contractors, subjected the workers to extreme unsafe and unhealthy conditions in its Los Angeles County and Riverside County fields; and routinely underpaid the workers by manipulating their time records and paystubs, and by failing to reimburse them for the tools they need to plant, harvest, and pack the onion crop.

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