11.   Health system officials and community leaders here say the menial jobs for relatively young and uneducated Hispanic workers make health insurance unlikely for them.

12.   Hispanic workers, for example, are assumed to be foreign born and lazy.

13.   Hispanic workers are also popular on apple farms, although they are increasingly being joined by Jamaicans, who specialize in apple picking, farmers say.

14.   Hispanic workers have also lost ground compared with non-Hispanic whites.

15.   In the middle are thousands of Hispanic workers, whose lack of English, willingness to work and sometimes undocumented status may make them easy targets for abuse.

16.   In one East Los Angeles event with Hispanic union workers days before the election, Gore delivered his entire get-out-the-vote message in Spanish.

17.   Last September, however, the Carpenters Union in Seattle launched a drive to organize Hispanic workers.

18.   Matta, who grew up in a family of Hispanic agricultural workers in Eastern Washington, started hanging drywall for one reason, he said.

19.   Nearby, a group of Hispanic workers had just begun framing a new building.

20.   Organizing Hispanic workers could give the union a foot in the residential door.