“Our society got too comfortable with unpaid labor,” said one activist.
"March for the Governor's Signature"The bill would make it easier for workers to vote for a union,, without intimidation from supervisors, foreman and labor contractors. Farm workers say that voting, as it is now, discourages participation in union efforts.
Campaigns led by Pay Our Interns have led to the payment of thousands of interns working for the federal government.Romero urges people to be conscious of where they buy their food, how workers are represented and how they're protected. She said the fight for fair working practices shouldn't stop and end with farm workers themselves. She said their labor fight is a collective fight.
"Since then that fund has actually been growing each year, which is unheard of, you know, usually programs don't increase that quickly," said Vera. "Now that we have Congress invested in this, and they're very supportive of this, we've leveraged that for other ones. So this past year, we secured funding for White House interns, State Department interns for the first time in history.
This primarily affects Black and brown students, and makes it harder for some students to enter certain fields if only unpaid internships are available. "You cannot have a [Diversity, Equity and Inclusion] agenda with an unpaid internship program," said Creamer. "If you have an unpaid internship program, you are not promoting equity. We just have to be blunt about it."
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