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Cucumber pickers fill deep 5/8 bushel buckets with all
sizes of cucumbers and are usually paid on a piece rate system rather than by the hour.
Workers must work at a rapid pace to earn over the minimum wage when earning $0.65-$0.70 per bucket. Unless there is a bumper crop and pickers work at a high rate of speed, reaching under thorny leaves and stems to snap off the pickle cucumbers, it is difficult to earn the minimum wage.
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, or FLOC, is an Ohio based farmworker union won a collective bargaining agreement covering many of the workers who pick pickle cucumbers for the Mt. Olive pickle Company in 2004.

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