In photos: Latino labor battles
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A demonstrator raises a fist during a march for food delivery workers’ rights in New York on April 21, 2021. Photo: Paul Frangipane/Bloomberg via Getty Images
New York City delivery workers who call themselves "Los deliveristas" celebrated new protections and benefits last month, the latest development in the long history of Latinos in workers' rights movements.
Why it matters: Hispanics make up 18% of the US labor force, but are overrepresented as workers in food service (27%), cleaning and maintenance (37%), and farming (43%), occupations where workers have been protesting and striking since the pandemic’s onset — and for decades.
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