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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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    :: Friday, September 26, 2003 ::

    Hispanics still face more deaths, injuries on the job By L.M. SIXEL
    Ricardo Benitez, an organizer with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters Union Local 551 in Houston, said he commonly sees contractors cutting corners with Hispanic immigrant workers, who by his estimate perform 80 percent of the construction work in Houston.
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