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Austyn Gaffney

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‘We Came Here to Work With Dignity’: Dairy Workers Rally Behind Bill to Fight Exploitation at New York Farms

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By Austyn Gaffney , Anna Watts
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This article was co-published and supported by the journalism non-profit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. Lazaro, a 67-year-old dairy worker in New York, has hopped between 20 different farms in the 12 years he’s been in the United States. But his work on a dairy farm in western New York this fall was the worst he’s experienced, he said. Eighteen people shared one house. He was paid the legal minimum wage of $15.50 an hour, but he worked about 70 hours a week and wasn’t given overtime pay.
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In new attack on solar, lawmakers spread myths about potato farms

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‘I don’t go out’: Undocumented dairy workers live in fear after immigration raids

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By Austyn Gaffney 
| Santa Fe New Mexican
Last spring, José Edilberto Molina-Aguilar was resting in his bedroom when a co-worker burst through the front door. Out his window, Molina-Aguilar, a 37-year-old dairy worker from Chiapas, Mexico, caught sight of the olive green uniforms of immigration enforcement officials who later claimed they had pursued a worker onto the farm property.
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