Sentences with phrase «california farm workers»

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As Ronald A. Wells recounts in the Journal of Presbyterian History, i n 1966 the United Farm Workers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm workFarm Workers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm wWorkers organized a march from Delano, California, to the state capitol of California in order to demand recognition of the rights of farm workfarm workersworkers.

Another important California social issue at the time was the effort by migratory farm workers to organize a union and obtain minimal wages and benefits.

According to fifth - generation growers of the McManis Family, winners of a 2016 California Green Medal in Sustainable Winegrowing Leadership Award, the Lodi Rules ™ Program, «is a standard of farming practices that not only protects our land, our workers and the community that we live in, but also produces a higher quality of wine that reflects the place and the people that create them.»

Key Democrats Could Deny Farm Workers Overtime Pay as Battle Goes Down to the Wire California assembly speaker, Anthony Rendon, postponed farmworker overtime bill vote until Monday...

In California's Central Valley, Colleen developed a county - wide educational track for nurses to train as midwives in order to help reduce high pre-term birth and teen pregnancy rates in Kern County, and provided well woman and prenatal care in a community health center primarily serving migrant farm workers.

Variety says the film, scripted by Keir Pearson, «depicts Chavez organizing the largest non-violent protest in U.S. history to accomplish his ultimate goal of obtaining basic human rights for over 50,000 farm workers in California.»

In his new film «California Solo», he plays a washed - out ex-Britpop rocker - turned - farm worker.

Similarly, California's rural - adjacent Grimmway Academy achieves significantly better academic outcomes for the children of farm workers than local alternatives, with a model centered on an edible schoolyard and blended learning.

Valley Fever was originally diagnosed in a group of farm workers in the San Juaquin Valley of California.

Using data on the productivity of agricultural workers, along with information about environmental conditions that come from the California air monitoring network, they analyze the relationship between ozone concentrations during the typical workday and farm worker productivity.

In California, drought may become a permanent feature, and some farm - workers have already responded by migrating north to Oregon and Washington.

Farms can be dangerous places to work, but in California, many farms are exempt from carrying workers» compensation insurFarms can be dangerous places to work, but in California, many farms are exempt from carrying workers» compensation insurfarms are exempt from carrying workers» compensation insurance.

Lead attorney Robert Jarchi, along with associates Molly McKibben and Christian Nickerson, obtained a $ 4.7 million verdict in Riverside Superior Court against Southern California Edison (SCE) for the wrongful death of a farm worker electrocuted while picking fruit in a grapefruit orchard, in a strongly disputed liability case.