Union Grows in Brooklyn

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Brian Pickett, Indypendent

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Lydia Howell

A 24 hour boycott helped draw attention to workers rights at Golden Farms in South Brooklyn. (Photo: NY Communities for Change)

(July 6, 2012) Community supporters are turning out once again at a small grocery store in the Kensington neighborhood in Brooklyn to aid workers fighting for their union.

Many of the supporters shop at the Golden Farm store-or used to, until they heard about the way the owner was treating the workers. For years the immigrant Latino workers at the grocery have been grossly underpaid and received no sick days or other benefits. Workers say they took home just $400 for working more than 70 hours a week.

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