"For 11 hours a day, five days a week, Efrocina Martinez, 48, and her daughter Maria Santiago, 16, pick husks of corn under the scorching summer sun west of Caldwell in Wilder. They work full-time at $15 an hour with a group of 40 other farmworkers. They travel to different squares in the Wilder area, tending to the corn, hops and other crops. Idaho farmworkers for the past two months have been working at least five days a week, often 12 hours a day, in heat that often hit triple digits. They endure long hours, are exposed to the elements and have little to no government protection. The Boise area saw an average of 92.7 degrees in the month of July. Last summer, during record-breaking temperatures in Boise, Martinez nearly fainted while working in Wilder, she said. But when her manager brought her a drink, 'I started to feel better and went straight back to work.'”
"When extreme heat hits Idaho, farmworkers struggle. What protections do they have?"
By Daniel Ramirez
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/community/canyon-county/article278107822.html
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