LIVE NOW: I'm at the U.S. Capitol holding an all-day Vigil & Thirst Strike for Workers' Rights. Our climate is in crisis & workers in every state are dying from the heat. @POTUS must create a federal heat rule and save lives — because workers can’t wait!
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Eli shared a photo of one of the large bins of garlic she and her coworkers filled earlier this month in Huron CA. This bin holds about 900 lbs of garlic. The high this day was 109°. Workers harvest from their knees. The smell in the field can be overwhelming.
Blueberries for my first Blue Sky post: Gabriel shows off a bucket of freshly picked blueberries from Arvin CA. He earnex minimum wage. The work seems easy, but at the end of the day his fingers ached from the repetitive motion. #WeFeedYou
Heat stress is is a deadly risk for farm workers, and it’s even more dangerous for child workers. Farm workers are excluded from many child labor laws.
Their little bodies have less surface area, produce less sweat, and generate more “exertional heat” than adults. This strawberry worker is 7.
