Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Miriam Pawel’s a provocative op-ed in the New York Times discusses a significant legislative victory for farmworkers in New York State. “But to deliver on the law’s promise will require effective grass-roots organizing in the fields,” cautions Pawel, before stating:

“The strongest model for farmworkers today is in Florida, where the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has achieved major gains – not through state law but through years of patient, creative organizing that produced a framework to improve wages and working conditions, with effective enforcement.”