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Published May 30, 2021, 3:19 PM Twenty residents in Muntinlupa City, who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, won 25 kilos of rice each in a raffle draw that aims to encourage more people to get the jab. One of the winners (left) of the “Bigas sa Bakuna” raffle promo held in Barangay Sucat Sunday (Barangay Sucat / MANILA BULLETIN) Barangay Sucat, headed by Chairman Raffy Sevilla, launched the innovative “Bigas sa Bakuna” raffle promo that will give half a sack of rice every week to 20 people who have been inoculated at Sucat Covered Court, one of the major vaccination hubs in Muntinlupa. The first raffle draw was held on May 30 for people who were vaccinated from May 24 to 29. ....
Harvest at Hiyu Wine Farm, Hood River, Oregon / Photo by Nate Ready In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) into law. It allowed employees to unionize and negotiate competitive wages and working conditions. Agricultural workers, however, were not included. The treatment of agricultural workers in the United States is “deep in the shadows of slavery,” says Elizabeth Strater, director of strategic campaigns for the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), the country’s largest union for agricultural workers. A precursor to the UFW, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) was created in 1962 by labor activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. The NFWA advocated for workers in California’s most lucrative agricultural industry: grape growing. After years of boycotts and community organization, the NFWA secured the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA), which guaranteed the rights of farm workers to organ ....