TRI-CITIES, Wash. (AP) — Some 2,000 farm workers called for better wages and working conditions during a 4 1/2-mile march between two south-central farm towns.
With temperatures in the mid-90s, the marchers — including a troupe of drum-beating Aztec dancers from Oregon — were joined Sunday by about 2,000 religious, civil rights and political supporters.
The demonstrators want higher apple-picking wages, amnesty for undocumented workers and protection for labor organizers from reprisals by employers.