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Bill in California would help farmworkers form unions
In this file photo, Jose Vasquez, brother of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, 17, who died working in a field, tries to hold back tears May 28, 2008, at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Lodi during a funeral for his sister.
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Bill in California would help farmworkers form unions
In this June 2, 2008, file photo, Josefina Flores, right, carries a photograph of Maria Isabel Vasques Jimenez, during a march near Thornton, Calif. Jimenez, an undocumented farm worker collapsed and died in a vineyard in May 2008. Jimenez's death sparked renewed calls for greater protection for farmworkers. Union advocates are pushing for legislation that would make it easier for farmworkers to unionize, claiming it would help prevent such tragedies.
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Bill in California would help farmworkers form unions
In this May 28, 2008, file photo, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pays his respects to Florentino Bautista, the boyfriend of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, 17, who died working in a field, at the funeral for Jimenez at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Lodi. Pictured center is United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez. At left is the Jimenez's uncle, Doroteo Jimenez, of Lodi.
Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:19 pm
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Updated: 6:07 am, Thu Aug 26, 2010.
Bill in California would help farmworkers form unions
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The temperature was nearly 100 degrees as 17-year-old Maria
Vasquez Jimenez, of Lodi, pruned grapes for nine hours at a
vineyard near Stockton in California's Central Valley. By the end
of that day in 2008, the pregnant teen was dead from heat stroke,
and her death set off renewed calls among union advocates for
greater protections for farmworkers. But in the two years since,
efforts to unionize workers have largely been unsuccessful.
Unions claim that's because employers have illegally interfered
with union elections, and their Democratic supporters pushed a bill
through the California Legislature last week that will
automatically declare a union victory if employer misconduct is
shown. The bill is awaiting action by Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
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Joe Baxter posted at 8:27 am on Fri, Aug 27, 2010.
Unions should meet the same fate as the 8-track tape. At one time unions had a useful purpose. In today's global economy they serve no purpose except to drive up the cost of everythiing they are involved with, especially government entities.
Tom Carlson posted at 7:06 am on Thu, Aug 26, 2010.
Typical Sacramento Liberal Democrats! They want everyone to be unionized so that they can take more from the employee paycheck and funnel it back to their own election campaigns. Meanwhile, the workers end up worse than they were. It is a tax on workers to mandate they support democrat candidates. If our growers worked like the unionized government workers, we would all starve because the harvest, like the budget, would be two to three months late and we would have to furlough the workers in the field every other friday.
Darrell Baumbach posted at 6:35 am on Thu, Aug 26, 2010.
Cheryl ...Good points.... The union is taking this tragic event and using it to gain power through the back door. This was a very unique situation which had terrible consequences. It is a shame that the union would stoop so low for self interests.
Cheryl Adams posted at 5:17 am on Thu, Aug 26, 2010.
I was wondering why a 17 year old pregant girl working so hard that she died. Is she or not smart enough to take a break if she wasn`t feeling good? Why didn`t someone notice her, and help her? And be the way, I don`t think the union can do any thing if she didn`t belong to the union. You have to belong to one so they can get work for you. I believe if you want to work, you can find it with out the union.
Darrell Baumbach posted at 7:54 pm on Wed, Aug 25, 2010.
Just like a typical union... anti business and anti worker...