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California cuts back on safety enforcement as farmworkers toil in extreme heat
4 months, 1 week ago

California cuts back on safety enforcement as farmworkers toil in extreme heat

LA Times  

California has sharply cut its enforcement of heat-protection laws for outdoor laborers while extreme heat has intensified in recent years — endangering farmworkers, construction workers and others who toil in scorching temperatures — an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main has found. Worker advocates say the numbers show a failure to adequately enforce California’s landmark outdoor …

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Low wages, lousy shifts, little room for advancement: Immigrant workers describe on-the-job discrimination
1 year, 2 months ago

Low wages, lousy shifts, little room for advancement: Immigrant workers describe on-the-job discrimination

LA Times  

A few days after arriving in Los Angeles, Joaquin Hurtado walked into a cafe in Studio City, asked for a manager, then recited one of the few phrases he’d memorized in English: “I’m looking for a job.” If he would work for $2.60 an hour — then 30 cents below the minimum wage — the manager said, they could use …

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Biden wants to create clean energy jobs. Here’s what they might look like
3 years, 4 months ago

Biden wants to create clean energy jobs. Here’s what they might look like

LA Times  

Workers place panels at the construction site of Westlands Solar Park in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Solar fields such as those at Westlands Solar Park in the San Joaquin Valley provide good-paying, blue-collar union jobs, but they also require fewer workers to operate than natural gas plants and oil refineries do. “It’s difficult to find comparable jobs at those good …

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Solar on farmland could help California keep the lights on
3 years, 5 months ago

Solar on farmland could help California keep the lights on

LA Times  

This is the July 8, 2021, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. At least 300 megawatts of gas-fired power won’t be available either due to “unforeseen circumstances.” And a few hundred megawatts of new energy resources that were expected to be ready to go by Aug. 1 …

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Wells dry up, crops imperiled, farm workers in limbo as California drought grips San Joaquin Valley
3 years, 7 months ago

Wells dry up, crops imperiled, farm workers in limbo as California drought grips San Joaquin Valley

LA Times  

As yet another season of drought returns to California, the mood has grown increasingly grim across the vast and fertile San Joaquin Valley. “I’m proud of our family’s history in this part of the state,” said John Guthrie, president of the Tulare County Farm Bureau. If not for that, I would seriously consider bowing out of this business.” — John …

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Many California farmworkers fear a winter of hunger and homelessness amid the pandemic
4 years, 1 month ago

Many California farmworkers fear a winter of hunger and homelessness amid the pandemic

LA Times  

Farmworker Jose Luis Hernandez spends time with his sons, Carlos, 2, Jose, 6, and Luis Angel, 9, outside their Stockton apartment. “I haven’t saved anything,” he said, sitting on the walkway of an aging five-plex in south Stockton, one of the poorest neighborhoods in this San Joaquin valley city, where he pays $675 a month for an apartment with taps …

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