Previously, he lived in male-only housing.įear of retaliation: When Joj suffered a blow on his head while working, he did not pursue workers’ compensation or Medicare. In Joj’s case, he knew he was underpaid, but was grateful for housing that allowed him to live with his wife and kids.
This type of labor abuse is not rare and many immigrants accept it without complaints. Documented estimated that he was underpaid by around $28,500 for the 15 months he worked. Underpaid and overworked: Chial-Yac told Documented’s reporters that Joj worked over 10 hours per day, every day of the week, and received only about $7.70 per hour - short of New York’s upstate minimum wage. It was pretty incredible how willing she was and how much she wanted to share about this, so soon after her husband’s death.” But I think we felt really encouraged and inspired by Marlene Chial-Yac, the wife of the man who died. “Maggie, my co-author would say the same thing. “This was not an easy story to write,” reporter Olivia Heffernan tells me.
In today’s story, writers Olivia Heffernan and Maggie Gray detail Pedro Joj’s life, work, and death. is heavily reliant on undocumented workers like Joj, but the government has failed to guarantee farm worker rights that address job-related injuries and illnesses.
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