Guest Workers

Guest Workers: North Carolina employs the largest number of H-2A or “guest” workers in the country. In September, a union representing guest workers signed a contract with the North Carolina Growers Association, making agriculture the first industry to unionize guest workers. Host Melinda Penkava talks with Charlie Thompson, director of undergraduate education at the Center for Documentary Studies; Stan Eure, President of the North Carolina Growers Association; Baldemar Velasquez, president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee; and Tim Funk, Washington Correspondent for the Charlotte Observer, about farmers reactions to the signing of the contract. Listener Call-In. (59:00) (CP)

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