Last week we spent some time discussing Labor Unions. Nancy gave us a great report on a current union issue happening in Wisconsin. After searching the internet, I found a rather informative article that discusses the history of Labor and Labor Strikes for Mexican Americans, Peurto Ricans, and Cubans. What I found particularly interesting was the way in which these three groups experiences were rather different. According to the article, Mexican americans mainly worked for very low wages for companies who had investments in oil mining and agriculture in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Puerto Ricans, who settled in New York City, worked for agricultural companies, specifically sugar and tobacco.

The article goes into a detailed description of the history behind all three of these groups of people and their involvement in the American labor force. The article stated that Mexican Americans faced the harshest conditions and wages out of all three of these groups, however, they did not really go into detail as to why that is.

http://www.jrank.org/cultures/pages/4046/Labor-Labor-Strikes.html