Black Farmers Say They Lost Jobs To White South Africans Who Arrived On Guest Worker Visas

Essence Magazine:

By Malaika Jabali ·Updated November 12, 2021

Six Black farmworkers have filed a federal lawsuit claiming that white South Africa workers were “illegally paid at higher rates than local Black workers,” including workers the farmers trained themselves, according to The New York Times.

The Times highlighted one of the plaintiffs, farmworker Richard Strong. Per the outlet:

“dozens of young, white workers flew in from South Africa on special guest worker visas. Mr. Strong and his co-workers trained

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