Forest Guild Report Addresses Plight of Southeast Latino Forest Workers

Posted on: August 23rd, 2007
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“Undocumented and Guest Workers Face Maltreatment and Injustice

The Forest Guild today released its most recent report, “Maltreatment and Injustice: An Overview of the Plight of Latino Forest Workers in the Southeast,” which assesses the complex issues surrounding the exploitation of legal and undocumented Latino forest workers in the forestry industry in Georgia, North and South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama. The document traces the history of the dramatic population increase within the last 20 years of Latino forest workers in the Southeast region of the United States, most coming from Mexico and to a lesser extent Guatemala. This demographic increase in the Southeast parallels the shift in our nations forestry sector to the region from the Northwest over the past decade and a half. “

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