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Posted on: May 15th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Business ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Wisconsin ]
Tags: Mexico
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“As dairy producers update their barns and milking facilities and add more cows to their herds they need consistent, reliable employees who have been trained in modern dairy practices. Many dairy workers working on Wisconsin farms are Latinos from Mexico and Central America and may not speak much English.
A survey conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Extension Dairy Team revealed a communication barrier between employer and employee. The survey found that 38 percent of dairy farmers hired translators to communicate, 24 percent used other Hispanic employees to train and 19 percent used hand signals to train and communicate to their Hispanic employees. “
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