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Death of 17-Year-Old Pregnant Farm Worker Incites Campaign Against Trader Joe'snew

The California Division of Industrial Relations has opened an investigation of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez's death and her employer, Merced Farm Labor. But activists connected to the case want to send the message even further, to stores like Trader Joe's that market products made with cheap or exploited agricultural labor.
San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  Amanda Witherell  |  07-10-2008  |  Business & Labor

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