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Important lessons from sow farmworkers
2020-02-12 17:51:00| National Hog Farmer
Labor intelligence study leads to identifying characteristics of an irresistible workplace.
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Why farmworkers are dying from extreme heat
2016-08-01 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Heat killed three women who were picking grapes in California last week. This sort of tragedy will become more common as temperatures rise, and it`s no surprise that some of the first casualties are the people forced by their circumstances into the heat. Temperatures reached 108 degrees up and down California`s San Joaquin Valley, far above the average high temperatures in recent years. California requires employers to provide shade and water to farmworkers, but workers lose money if they spend...
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Jury awards deceased farmworker's family over $4 million
2015-07-09 02:45:15| Energy - Topix.net
A jury has awarded more than $4 million to the family of a farmworker electrocuted by a Southern California Edison power line. Pablo Padilla Ayala was working on a grapefruit farm in Hemet, 90 miles east of Los Angeles, when his aluminum ladder touched the power line in 2010.
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Drifting pesticides sicken 20 farmworkers in Washington
2015-02-17 07:47:26| Biotech - Topix.net
A cocktail of pesticides sickened 20 farmworkers in a cherry orchard in Washington last April, according to a newly released report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . The workers, 19 of whom were women, were the victims of off-target pesticide drift, an occurrence responsible for 31 percent of the state's pesticide-related illnesses.
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How farmworkers experience a warming climate
2013-09-27 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Northwest Public Radio: For 20 years, Victor Gonzales has traveled the West picking crops. In the Northwest that means pears, cherries and apples. Right now, hes working at a Hood River pear orchard. In the summer, temperatures here can reach 100 degrees. Gonzalez remembers one day when hed been working really hard, sweating more than normal. Gonzales felt like he was going to pass out. He was shaky and very sleepy, he says through a translator. Instead of sleeping, he went to the farmworker housing unit and drank...
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