by Robert J. Lopez | Nov 28, 2025 | California, Chemical Exposure, child labor, Farmworkers, Inspections, News, pesticide, toxic chemicals, Workplace Safety
Hundreds of thousands of times each year in California, farmers and their contractors spray pesticides on fields and orchards in the state’s agricultural heartlands. Farmworkers young and old can be exposed to dangerous concentrations of toxic chemicals if they are not properly trained, left uninformed about when they can safely enter sprayed fields or exposed to pesticide applications…
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by Robert J. Lopez | Nov 27, 2025 | Agriculture, California, child labor laws, Farmworkers, ICE Raids, News, Workplace Protections
The summer sun burned through the clouds in California’s Salinas Valley, where a bounty of berries and leafy green vegetables grows across this rich farmland renowned as the “Salad Bowl of the World.” Jose, a quiet 14-year-old, was squatting and bending over for hours with other workers in a sprawling strawberry field. The pickers, many of them also minors, snapped berries from plants and…
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