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Our corporate image depends primarily upon the soft red berry.  --
                                           Do we do enough for our farm workers?
 
 
 

Strawberry workers shortchanged

Coachella Valley strawberry workers need your help.
The jobs they do are physically demanding, requiring workers to crouch
and bend from the waist for prolonged periods of time.
Pickers, who are often paid by piece work, need to work at a very fast
pace in order to earn enough to take care of their families.

When workers perform work that hard, they expect to at least get
paid what they are owed. But now we're hearing many Coachella
Valley strawberry workers are not getting paid for all the boxes
they pick.

"At the end of the day, one is missing 2 to 3 boxes, but it is
just not me, it is almost everyone in our crew. Imagine, 300
people working the strawberry and each one is missing 2 to 3
boxes, that?s a lot of money someone is keeping. I feel I work
very hard for someone to take some of my earnings. Then, when
you try to get it corrected, the supervisor denies the incident
and becomes verbally abusive
." -- Leonor Gonzalez

"I only work the strawberry in between other harvests because I
don't think I could do the work for three or four months at a
time. Not because I cannot do the physical part, but because I
can only take so much of someone stealing from me and not be
able to do anything about it because I need to work." --

Margarito Cortez

These strawberry workers face other abuses. Restrooms in the
fields are too far away from where they labor. The foreman won't
separate restrooms from his truck--where the workers' lunches
are also stored despite repeated requests. So the workers' food
attracts flies from the restrooms.

Strawberry workers do not have to endure these conditions. Last
March, the United Farm Workers signed a historic new contract
with the nation's largest strawberry employer, Coastal Berry Co.
It provides the best pay and health care coverage for strawberry
workers in the nation as well as a grievance system which
protects the workers' basic rights.

Please help us organize these strawberry workers, so they can
win fair pay and an end to these abuses. Make your secure
donation today. To show our appreciation, we will send you a
special "Justicia y Dignidad" (Justice and Dignity) strawberry
button for donating $20 or more.

Make your donation today! Go to: UFW PAGE

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From the Oxnard Watch-Dog.........¿ WHERE IS BROWN 25
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WHEN YOU NEED IT : ?

Did you read the "B" Section of the Star about how the entire City Council (all five of them) went on a field trip to talk about "a fashion retail center" for a project that hadn't even submitted a pre application?
                                                       Gosh, that used to be called 
"A VIOLATION OF THE OPEN MEETING LAW", aka the Brown Act, so:
1. When was the public notified about this closed session?
2. How did the Council members get to Rancho Cucamonga? Did they all take the same car? Did three of them go in the same car, which would mean that the going and coming were separate closed sessions?
3. What else did the Council talk about during this time, which creates another violation of the Act? OR, did they just sit in the same car but not say a word the entire two hour trip?
4. Why go on such a long "fact finding trip" when the 'Officials with RiverPark Legacy, heretofore called "the DEVELOPERS"  haven't and wouldn't even submit a "pre-application within 3 months" according the Matt Winegar?
5. Recall that the DA's attorney told jurors that "Convicting someone on a conspiracy charge isn't as complicated as it sounds". "It can be as simple as two people casually walking down the street agreeing to commit a crime like spray-painting a building and then taking steps toward accomplishing that goal, he said. "That's all you need in a conspiracy," --- Barrick told jurors." [From Star first page story "Taggers hit with felony charges".] Well than what do you call it when FIVE Council members agree to violate the Brown Act?

If you missed the story --- Field trip may benefit River Park shopping
Oxnard officials go out of town for ideas to fashion retail center
By Charles Levin, clevin@VenturaCountyStar.com
April 18, 2006
Oxnard Councilman Dean Maulhardt says he doesn't care much for shopping,
but that could change. Maulhardt joined Mayor Tom Holden and three other council members on afield trip Friday to Rancho Cucamonga, where they checked out Victoria
Gardens, a new 1.3 million-square-foot shopping center.
   
   

Located in the Former
Marie Callendar's Restaurant on South Oxnard Blvd. & Statham  -

CITY BUFFET IS NOW OPEN and serving a tremendous selection of seafood, fried and a tasty Mongolian style plate that you pick your ingredients COME EXPERIENCE THE ALL YOU CAN EAT TREATS.

Take your family and guests -- there is plenty of room and plenty of good food................


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this Tuesday.

Planning Commission
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