By Diana Moreno

Know your rights
You’ll never forget your first sighting of Turlington preachers dooming unsaved souls to the fiery pits of hell, or the herds of college students stumbling down University Avenue at 2am on a Saturday night.
But during your stay here, you are also prone to have an experience of a different sort. Whether it’s getting [...]

By Henry Taksier

When Mary Ann Jones bought her house in Northwest Gainesville, the real estate agent said there might be noise every now and then, due to the nearby industrial facility. She was okay with that. She was not warned that her grandchildren could be exposed to a dangerous concentration of dioxins, which are known to cause cancer and a wide range of health problems, especially in small children.

By Esteban O Sullivan

Aramark, UF’s food service supplier, has agreed to pay a penny and a half more per pound for the tomatoes they purchase – a premium that will go directly toward increasing the wages of tomato pickers.
UF Student/Farmworker Alliance members heard the decision on March 22.
“We had heard from the [Coalition of Immokalee Workers] two weeks [...]

By Jessica Newman

Farmworker women working together in the fields and in the home
For the average female fern worker on the farms of Seville, Fla., unfair wages, domestic abuse, hunger and sleep deprivation are a normal part of life.
As of 2004, three out of five women who approached the Alianza de Mujeres Activas (Alliance of Active Women) mentioned [...]

By Nadine Navarro

Why UF agreed to join the Workers Rights Consortium

Every day, average Americans drive to their jobs, work for about four hours and then take a legally mandated lunch break for 30 minutes to an hour. After about four more hours of work, they go home.
But Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia’s workdays were nothing like that. [...]