United to Strike: A Story of the Delano Grape Workers

United to Strike: A Story of the Delano Grape Workers — page 7
moved out to the single men housing on the ranch so the Perez house is less crowded than normal In the men's housing it's only four to a room and all meals are free Well not exactly free but close Isko says the boss takes the money out of your wages but you still don't have to worry about cooking so that's something I guess He plans to join his brothers in the men's housing as soon as he's old enough I have bigger dreams than picking girdling and packing grapes And that is Isko's problem He doesn't know how to dream big Since there's only four of us in my family's house and we don't need all the space the Perezes do we don't actually live in Delano We live on the ranch just outside of Delano in an apartment Actually it's more like a barrack But because Tatay is the afternoon shift foreman we have a nicer bigger place than most There's a playground baseball field and tennis court for us to use though I've only ever seen people play basketball on the tennis court Never tennis It isn't so bad Not all growers treat their workers as nicely as our boss does Look at me saying our boss like I work next to Tatay and