SPECIAL: Adrián Ventura, seafood processing worker justice (English translation)

05/03/23 • 40 min

Adrián Ventura is the Executive Director of the Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores (CCT) in New Bedford and a leading voice for worker justice in the seafood processing sector. Adrián talks about the injustices seafood processing workers are facing, how CCT empowers workers to respond, and how they are building solidarities across sectors. Immigrant women and undocumented workers are particularly vulnerable to abuses and represent a significant percentage of these workers.
This is an English translation of an interview originally conducted and published in Spanish, by Liliana Sierra Castillo and Ryan Irlanda.
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