Sentences with phrase «as a farm worker»

Footage released by CNN from Libya showed hundreds of young men from sub-Saharan Africa being auctioned as farm workers.

In a post on the HQ Nigerian Army Facebook page, Col Antigha said the 700 comprised «farmers, fishermen and members of their families who were hitherto held by Boko Haram terrorists as farm workers».

Nathan Berger, the Long Island coordinator for the Justice for Farmworkers Rural Migrant Ministry, says they are seeking an eight - hour day, overtime, and one guaranteed day off per week, as farm workers are exempt from many state labor laws.

No fewer than 700 farmers, fishermen and members of their families, who were held captive by Boko Haram terrorists as farm workers have fled the various islands in Lake Chad to Monguno Borno State.

It is hard to believe that the robust house pet was once as a farm worker.

Seeking a position as a farm worker in a well - reputed company where I can use my strong leadership skills and my ability to take care of the livestock and poultry within a farm.

Mention some general skills as well as some skills which you have gained in your experience as a farm worker.

As an enthusiastic individual with keen interest in working with nature, I would like to join Yodel Farms as a Farm Worker to put my best efforts for your success.

Create this Resume Louella Landrum4931 Biddie LaneCumberland, VA 23040 (123)[email protected] a position as Farm Worker to be part of an established farm where skills and knowledge can be utilized to perform most of the farm duties.

Not exact matches

While Flaugh said that «it's hard to totally discredit them as a supplier after all these years,» if it turns out that the video actually is representative of the farm workers» conduct, «they would be discontinued as a supplier.

A Faccenda spokesman told The Times that an «external vet» was sent to the farm to investigate workers kicking chickens and approved it, described by the spokesman as «shepherding» birds out of the way.

For Yale University's Shared Services department, Svigals + Partners turned a cubicle farm into a series of collaborative, egg - shape huddle spaces that not only serve as places for workers to congregate, but also create a sense of purpose and «innovative spirit,» according to Barry Svigals.

As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.

Case Farms managers said that the lines in Canton run about 35 birds a minute, but workers at other Case Farms plants told me that their lines run as fast as 45 birds a minute.

Bill 6, the government of Alberta's contentious farm workers» safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

So maybe the Wildrose and Derek Fildebrandt doesn't really care as much about the «family farm» as they do for the larger commercial agriculture operation that employs workers but still wants to be labelled a «family farm».

While the outside world saw Chavez's protest as a political march, he and the farm workers also saw it as a pilgrimage.

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.

The faith - group programs, representing Protestant, Catholics, and Jews, have consistently provided documentaries, dramas, and discussions which dealt with issues almost never touched by commercial broadcasting: the economic factors behind nuclear armaments; the issues behind draft evasion (during the Vietnam War); the real causes of worldwide starvation; and the problems of people who are ignored almost completely by the media, such as the aging who can not live on their pensions, unwed mothers, farm workers who have no homes, undocumented aliens whom we wish to employ but not pay, and refugees we are sending back to certain death in their own countries.

This is the same economy as our current migrant farm worker situation as you may buy slaves from Mexico.

Economists can argue that the workers in the new factories were no worse off than they had been as peasants on English farms.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

He also served as president of the National Juice Products Association and chairman of the Food Institute, New Jersey Food Processors Association, and the New Jersey Farm Workers Corp..

Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

Workers on Rainforest Alliance Certified tea farms benefit from decent wages and housing, as well as access to safe water, health care and education for their children.

«Whatever your ethics or religion, it's just good business to treat the workers well,» he told me, as we toured the neat, clean, well - maintained barracks that house 480 seasonal workers on the farm at harvest time, most of them very poor Nicaraguan families who come into Costa Rica for a few months each year.

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...

The video, shot in April 2012, was taken at Wyoming Premium Farms, a pig factory farm in Wheatland, Wyo., owned by Itoham America, Inc., and shows workers kicking living piglets like soccer balls, swinging sick piglets in circles by their hind legs, striking mother pigs with their fists and repeatedly and forcefully kicking them as they resisted leaving their young.

So while AFSA strongly supports the need to recognize agriculture as the priority activity in the Farming Zone, we see a need to offer more flexibility to enable farms to construct suitable dwellings for the rich community of workers needed to manage these systems, where those dwellings are genuinely built in support of agricultural purposes.

The context in Australia is certainly different to that of the US, but as the Four Corners expose on the pay and conditions for itinerant farm workers here demonstrated, we are not innocent of treating workers unfairly, and the food movement must work in solidarity to remedy these wrongs.

Paella, a delicious blend of rice, vegetables, seafood, meat and spices, originated as farm laborer's food in Spain — cooked by the workers in the open air with ingredients that were ready at hand.

Organic farming principles include the use of no chemicals in production and fairness to all workers, while fair trade standards ensure just payment to owners and workers, as well as the appropriate use of funds for supportive social, economic and environmental projects.

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.

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The bill looks to address issues such as worker protections, overtime pay, public health protection and employer contributions to workers» compensation and unemployment funds and would afford greater rights for over 100,000 migrant farm workers throughout New York State, which boasts a powerful agricultural industry.

We owe it as a duty to cater for the needs of the common man and woman on the streets, on farms, fisher folk, market women, teachers, nurses, other workers, as well as countless millions of our unemployed young men and women.»

In the document, Milne argued that communism had frightening connotations for most people in Britain «mainly due to ignorance» and he set out a vision where «factories and farms will be run by committees of workers, elected by workers (as in China where this has proved to work very well)».

Espada is reportedly pushing for a joint statement with Sampson on the farm workers bill — and perhaps also on a package of housing bills that housing advocates dislike because they view them as too pro-landlord — but some people around the Brooklyn lawmaker worry it will look too much like he's (yet again) getting worked over by the wily majority leader and are balking.

«It is long past time to give farm workers the same basic labor rights as other workers, and Tkacyyk should vote to correct this longstanding injustice,» Hawkins said.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, called today for Senator Cecilia Tkaczyk of the Capital District to support the Farm Worker Bill of Rights (A01792A / S01743 - A) since she won her election as a Green candidate.

On a farm in Costa Rica, workers care for these delicate, winged creatures as they change from eggs to caterpillars to pupae.

They're in gyms, at the beach, and increasingly, on the farm.One strain of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) known as CC398 has been rapidly spreading through poultry and pig farms, infecting people who work with the animals around the world (up to 26.5 percent of farm workers sampled in the Neatherlands), and popping up in nearly half of all meat sampled in the U.S.

«These lung function changes are comparable to the effects caused by other occupational risk factors, such as organic dusts in farming and cotton workers.

Agricultural workers constructed extensive terracing to keep up with population growth, but farming reached a point of diminishing returns as all available land was terraced.

This has followed growing fears about the health effects on farm workers of exposure to organophosphates, also known as OPs.

An entire subculture of scavenger workers emerged to scrape, collect, and carry London's human waste to the edge of the city, where it could be used as fertilizer for nearby farms.

He taught himself high school material while working on a farm near Yan «an, studied in an engineering college in Xi'an as a worker - farmer - soldier trainee, and was among the first to pursue a graduate degree in post-Mao China.

Biggest mysteries Kidney disease: Farm workers in Central America, India and Sri Lanka are dying in staggering numbers from a rare kidney disease, with pesticides fingered as a potential culprit.

In Oklahoma, farm workers are mixing manure from swine sick with the disease, known as Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv), into the food of healthy animals to build their immunity.