March 26, 2009
Lynn Harter, Eastern Farm Workers Association
Eastern Farms Workers Association was organized in 1922 across the US to Alaska. Workers today and making similar wages as made in 1974 picking apples, planting crops and harvesting. There are about 10,000 workers in Central New York. They are paid about $7 - $8 for filling 28 bushel bins of apples. Farms have changed from family owned to big co-op. Today the workers come from Guatemala and Mexico and formerly they were Jamaican and Blacks. The language has always been a problem. Most of the income is sent home to help families. Mostly men come to work
Ernie Wass shakes hands with Lynn Harter.
