In line with the average, light turns, the light turns to the hardest and white, the sky and humid all dignity. Cry lines have stretched out the horizon, the vines twisted on a cracked soil. Manufacturers travel in rhythms harvest – assault, twisting, lifting, decrease – their long waters in sweat, drawn curtains. Spanish pulls down lines, a joke here, warning there, we are carried by heavy air.
These bad harvest days, when the sun turns the fields into a slow oven and heat increases before breakfast, holding down until the stars are out. During the night death, the damage was made: Some of the dirty fall, one family gave a death certificate instead of paying.
The commonest normal problem in California. About 20 years ago, in the shadow of Farmer Funeral – Arvin, Fresno County, Kern, Imperial Valley – California set the national heat rules for the safety of basic workers: water, shade, relaxation. Mercy What do you think doesn’t learn to seek. The workers of my colleagues and who are writing those rules, and Gov. Arnold SchwarzeneGger signed in the Law, believed they were sufficient. But twenty decades, the Reaper is making rows: 110 degrees, no tree, no blow, one water prison grow warm, its handle. Cracking is rejected, not only from flesh, but from an unending clock of harvest.
This is not the failure of the law, but for force. Some notice the Sign of Bill as a finish line instead of the first gun. The examiners are very few. The penalties are very bright. The investigation is slow. The state’s state report read as a Cal / Osh’s Anvituary Fidelity: Expired Rules, Missed Rules, Refreshards, Retry Offices Very Repeated.
At that time the weather has become a clay. A cool night now holds the heat of the day as a grudge. And danger in the fields are not just sun. The immigration of our resurrection is drifting away from the dust of dust – suddenly, not reported. In addition to a part of 350,000 clinics in California. The furniture This nation is drawn to the world for the three-digit workers but live in the shadows, where one complaint can report their job, their home, their freedom.
Twenty periods of harvesting later, I call the action – not another paid capitol steps, but dollars, real and donated, and the regulations to be the same. That way, and support, four simple adjustments can change the promise to a protection.
First, it brings 21-century instruments in the fields. In 2005, a “Heath-Tech” solution was a jug of plastic water in the shade and pop-up canopy. Today, for $ 50 – The price of two gloves – employers can use the cargo sensor to track the main temperature to track the basic edges and the heart. That is not a Silicon Valley Moonsonhot’s money. Changed in the agricultural pocket, and because of the workers it can mean the difference between emissions or to be done.
Second, forced in real time. If the employee goes down to one knee in the fire, the state should not be the sake of these days after the report. Consider the network that connects to growers, administrators and emergencies in the same information pit – they turn the slow, effective disasters that attract and protect the majority.
Third, the train before the first line is taken. Ten minutes – no more – that workers are represented, in their own language, signs: nausea, nausea, an attractive crystent in mind that means time to stop. Not a visible handout in English tied to the envelope after paycheck, not an emergency statement in Spanish, but a guaranteed safety course – guaranteed by staff contracts and farmers alike. Knowing here is like life as water and shadows.
Finally, match the urgency we see in other arenas. While CAL / UNTHA LULPS CONTACK, HUMAN AND STEP with RED TAPE, arrival cases and compulsory customs on the other-hand – promoted by $ 170 billion in new fundsBonus of immigration and bontream bonuses, combining $ 50 000. Paying student loans, drawing age restrictions, even retirement for double salaries. That is what happened when the government determines the wrong shipping is very important. We pour out the urgency that chases farmworkers in the fields, but they cannot compile the will to protect them from heat. Until CAL / SHA finds that drive – the inspectors employed every corner of the Kingdom, the motives of bringing them to the new generation, obstacles rebellious – written rules – the laws we will remain promise without witnesses.
Some will say that it is too great, that the industry cannot tolerate costs. But I left behind the Salley dust, standing at many homes of farm funeral, watching the workshops as if he had taken his warmth, and saw the children of the church, gazing off the dirt. No budget line can measure that loss.
The village will continue to feed the nation. The question is to continue feeding the cemetery.
At one point, by filing the safety rules, California announced that life was more important than the production box. When we allowed that promise to break down to the fire, we all wrote back then to be released from the media. Government programs can Drilion-track-track-dollar projects, but until this is the most important of your attention you find that attention, laws are just in the box, and the philosological calls are long.
Dean Florez is a great leader of California, from California, representing parts of the center.
