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Why Did Essential Workers Strike at Hunts Point?
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Publication Date |
Jan 27, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:17:29

Hunts Point is the country’s largest wholesale produce market and it’s in the South Bronx. Workers there voted to strike on Sunday, January 17th. This past Saturday, after six days on the picket line, they popped champagne  to celebrate their agreement with management on a new contract. As they return to their jobs distributing food to New York’s grocery stores, it remains important to understand why these essential workers reached a breaking point and whether this is the first of more food industry labor struggles to come in 2021. 

Have a question you want answered? Email us at question@heritageradionetwork.org

This project is funded in part by a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act. 

This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

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Hunts Point is the country’s largest wholesale produce market and it’s in the South Bronx. Workers there voted to strike on Sunday, January 17th. This past Saturday, after six days on the picket line, they popped champagne to celebrate their agreement with management on a new contract. As they return to their jobs distributing food to New York’s grocery stores, it remains important to understand why these essential workers reached a breaking point and whether this is the first of more food industry labor struggles to come in 2021. Have a question you want answered? Email us at question@heritageradionetwork.org

Hunts Point is the country’s largest wholesale produce market and it’s in the South Bronx. Workers there voted to strike on Sunday, January 17th. This past Saturday, after six days on the picket line, they popped champagne  to celebrate their agreement with management on a new contract. As they return to their jobs distributing food to New York’s grocery stores, it remains important to understand why these essential workers reached a breaking point and whether this is the first of more food industry labor struggles to come in 2021. 

Have a question you want answered? Email us at question@heritageradionetwork.org

This project is funded in part by a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act. 

This program is also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

The Big Food Question is powered by Simplecast.

 

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