While the South is still the most hostile terrain for workers and unions in the United States today, the region increasingly has become a battleground for militant labor struggles. One of the most notable efforts comes from an area where involuntary servitude is still a living reality—the Florida Everglades. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a farmworker organizing project there, based… return to article
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