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The Pineros Men of the Pines

Number 22535
Subject Migrant Workers
Source Sacramento Bee
State California
Year 2005
Publication Date November 13-15, 2005
Summary This series of stories uncovered the extensive mistreatment and abuse of Latino workers who plant and thin federal and private forests. Like immigrant farm workers before them, the pineros had largely toiled in obscurity with scant recognition of their existence. This entry is the online version of a newspaper series, story # 22280.
Category None
Pages 45
Keywords pine workers;labor shortages;federal guest worker program;labor;U.S. Forest Service;Healthy Forests Initiative;forestry;CAR;FOIA
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