Sentences with phrase «paid farm workers»

At his own expense, he paid his farm workers to make and store the first batch.

First you comment that 2/3 of farmers don't have paid farm workers so bill 6 is irrelevant to them.

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FireFly buys its goat milk from seven family farms near the creamery, still makes its cheeses by hand, and has made a firm commitment to paying its workers a living wage.

The tea farm only employs women, pays them 36 percent above the industry standard and, to give you a sense of how dire worker conditions in the tea industry are, they can go home at night.

Recognize that men are enslaved on fishing boats to farm shrimp, kids are harvesting chocolate, and that factory workers in China are not being paid for the stuff you're buying on the cheap at your local discount store.

Importing farm workers from Mexico, legally and illegally, also ensures competition for low - paying work.

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.

Using migrant farm workers at wages far in excess of their normal rate of pay in their own country is a major flaw labor practices.

Farm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CountFarm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CountFarm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CoWorkers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma Countfarm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma Countfarm workers in northern Sonoma Coworkers in northern Sonoma County...

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...

Fair Trade guarantees farm workers are paid a fair wage and empowers them to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities.

The industrial orthodoxy of productivism — grow more for less... if you can't, you must not be efficient enough (if you can, what are you paying your workers, how is your soil, are your animals in sheds, and are you one of the majority of Australian farmers with off - farm income?).

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.

MORE than 70 workers have been sacked without pay this week after Cowra's Windsor Farm cannery went into voluntary administration with millions of dollars worth of debts.

In a statement, New York Farm Bureau President Dean Norton, a Batavia dairy farmer, said exempting the agriculture industry would make it difficult to find quality workers, who would likely go to other industries to find higher - paying work.

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.

The competition for farm workers just simply results in a minimum wage not being an acceptable wage to pay people.»

Members of the New York State Laborers Organizing Fund on Wednesday blasted the hiring of out - of - state workers who were not paid a prevailing wage to construct a wind farm in Lewis County.

Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo (R - New Suffolk) agreed, saying he predicts farm stands and smaller businesses that require seasonal help will lose a majority of their revenue due to income tax increases, requiring them to either hire fewer employees or pay workers off the books.

In a test of their idea, they farmed out a task to design a small chair for children to a group of 60 paid workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

Secondly, while teachers may not be well - paid compared to lawyers and doctors, compared to many other unionized jobs (farm and factory workers, for instance), they are relatively well paid — they are college graduates after all.

In its first meeting of 2015, the LA Unified school board tomorrow will debate a range of issues, from students» eating alone to farm workers» pay.

• The following are included in annual income to qualify for an RHS guaranteed loan: − Gross amount of wages, salaries, overtime pay, commissions, fees, tips, bonuses and other compensation for personal services of all adult members of the household − Net income from the operation of a farm, business or profession, interest, dividends and other net income of any kind from real or personal property − Payments from social security, annuities, insurance policies, pensions, unemployment, workers compensation, alimony and / or child support and other types of periodic receipts.

Protecting Workers: Farm and food workers across the world are fighting for better pay and working condWorkers: Farm and food workers across the world are fighting for better pay and working condworkers across the world are fighting for better pay and working conditions.

If Congress were less beholden to corporations, we might be able to create a system that paid farmers and farm workers decently and sold organic foods at prices that everyone could afford.