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Kerry Kennedy lends hand to farmworkers' rights bill
Kerry Kennedy lent her support Thursday to a new educational initiative that aims to engage students and parents in a push to give New York’s farm workers the same protections, from overtime pay to collective bargaining rights, long-enjoyed by other workers.
Teachers around the state and nation will be able to use a new lesson plan on the issue that can be downloaded from a website, sharemylesson.com,...