Because of the terms of their employment, those laborers have specific challenges voicing concerns about their working conditions.
ILLINOIS, USA — Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn’t hire any contract workers at all. Now he typically hires about 22 every year through a local coordinator that helps farmers hire crews of agriculturally skilled, often Latino workers. Those teams hand-weed the soybeans Ackerman grows alongside the pumpkin and corn crops he uses for his primarily fall-focused agrotourism outfit.
He still hires about the same number of locals, around 25 part-time workers in the fall, many of them teenagers or young adults, to run sales and
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