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Community => Society and History => Topic started by: SkyTrekTower on May 07, 2013, 05:52:20 pm
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...but self regulation will result in job creators caring for their employees.[sarcasm]
More than a dozen farm workers in Southern California were out of a job after walking out of the fields last week, forced indoors because of heavy smoke from a massive wildfire burning nearby.
“Oh, yeah, the smoke was very bad. That’s no doubt about that,” said Lauro Barrajas, of the United Farm Workers.
As the blaze, dubbed the Springs Fire, continued to grow in Camarillo May 2, farm workers 11 miles south in Oxnard said they started to feel the effects of the smoke in the strawberry fields.
The ashes were falling on top of us, one of them explained, adding “it was hard to breathe.”
Air quality in the region was at dangerously poor levels and 15 workers at Crisalida Farms decided they could not handle it any longer. They left, even though their foreman warned them they would not have a job when they returned.
When they went back to the fields May 3, the farm fired them.
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In a statement to Telemundo, the farm representative said the workers left without permission while orders still needed to be filled. The company offered to pay them for the hours they’d worked.
Link (http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/Calif-Farm-Workers-Fired-for-Leaving-Fields-During-Fire-206400841.html)
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Gee, keep working and suffocate, or escape and starve looking for more work. Fuck!
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My hometown is nearby where the fire was, and on the way home I could see the fire from the harbor. Ah yes, I also know I pass by Oxnard with all those farms. I think there's an occasional strawberry fest or something.
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WHAT'S WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?! DID THEY WANT THE FARM WORKERS TO LITERALLY "GDIAF"?!
Do these bozos think people are made out of asbestos? Did they think they hired Meschach, Shadrach & Abendigo...or Jean Grey or The Human Torch?!
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And this is why, people, I hate humanity sometimes.
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Set the bozo who fired them on fire.
Not so much that he dies, mind you. Just enough for him to run around screaming for a few minutes.
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This is craziness. Is there any way to avoid buying from this farm?
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This is craziness. Is there any way to avoid buying from this farm?
I don't know. Buy local? Grow your own? What do they grow?
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Strawberries if you'd bothered to read the article.
But yeah this is nuts. They got fired for wanting to breath. Shows where some companies are going don't it?
Ironbite-a serious disconnect with reality.
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Union representatives met with the farm’s upper management and applied a union rule.
“No worker shall work under conditions where they feel his life or health is in danger,” Barrajas said.
Ladies and gentlemen, a concise reason why unions are still needed in the 21st century. The fact that a union applied union rules for nonunion members shows who has empathy in that situation.
(http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr141/Vyzai_Shar_888/fail-owned-fire-fail.jpg)