Farmworkers Are Mexico's Lowest Paid Workers teleSUR
go to original September 15, 2014

Migrant farmworkers work under the hot sun for long hours says Luis Magaña Acevedo, leader of the Organization of Agricultural Workers of California. (Especial)

Mexican farm laborers earned less than three dollars a day in 2013 in Mexico, according to information released by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its Spanish acronym).

Farmworkers’ wages do not represent any more than 1.5 percent of the earnings of those who work in large corporations in Mexico, according to Inegi.

In fact, the gap between the two sectors is so wide that a corporate executive only needs to work 5.6 days to earn what an agricultural worker earns in a year.

Seventy percent of the field workers earn less than US $2 per day. Ninety-five percent do not enjoy any health or social security benefits. That puts Mexican field workers after China as the most exploited in the world, according to the World Bank.

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