Source: Mark Davis, KANSAS CITY TRIBUNE, 8/9/18


Missouri farmworkers who were housed in an “inhumane and unhealthy” former jail, employed in “unsanitary work environments” and then paid less than they were owed have gotten help from the U.S. Labor Department. Marin J Corp. of Avon Park, Fla., consented to a preliminary injunction that federal labor officials sought after witnessing the plight of the company’s 107 temporary farmworkers near the Missouri Bootheel town of Kennett.

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