"Thousands Tune In for Public Hearing on Bill Proposing Overtime Restriction for Farm Workers"
"Vice Chair and 37th District Sen. Rebecca Saldaña acted as an interpreter for a portion of this hearing."
“It'd be even more if they could work those extra 10 hours and have that be time and a half with overtime,” Saldaña added. “That's my last comment because it's really hard for me to translate when I know that they're not given all the information.”
(WHAT IF IT BECOMES 10s of THOUSANDS?)
“I've missed so many irreplaceable moments with my children because I spent so much time working. This time we will never get back. As farm workers, our very life expectancy is shorter. Other states have passed overtime legislation for farmworkers to address this inequity. We deserve to be equal. We need to hold on to what we have, our lives, our health is valuable. Growers should not be able to just use up our lives. We are not tools or cattle, we are human beings.”
~ Reported by Terra Sokol
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