MOUNT OLIVE, N.C. — The National Council of Churches has applauded an agreement unionizing foreign farmworkers who pick cucumbers sold by the Mt. Olive Pickle Company, which it had boycotted in protest of previous treatment of the workers. The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, the North Carolina Growers Association and the Mount Olive, N.C.-based pickle company reached an agreement Sept.…
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