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    Immigrants to U.S. find opportunities amid strawberries

    Immigrants to U.S. find opportunities amid strawberries

    12:48 p.m. PDT September 13, 2015


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    For more than 500 years, the story of the United States is told by waves of immigrants. Many came with few possessions or skills; they had limited options, but carried the drive to make a better life. My immigrant grandparents arrived from Hungary nearly 100 years ago, with few possessions, some education, and no English-language skills. They found jobs in the coal mines, steel mills and oil refineries of the Midwest. The jobs were hot, hard, dirty and dangerous, but my grandparents worked these jobs to make sure that their children had more education and work opportunities than what they had in “the old country.”

    Immigrants make up much of the current agricultural labor force. Like the work available to my grandparents, the jobs are hard, but the safety measures and wage protections are far greater now. In California, regulations are much more protective than the rest of the nation. These regulations are intended to keep the workplace and the workers safe, and include a myriad of rules governing wages, working conditions, and health and safety precautions.


    Strawberries are a labor-intensive crop: they are hand-planted, hand-weeded, hand-harvested, and hand-packed in the field. Workers are vital to strawberry production: California strawberry farmers care about their employees, and a safe and fair working environment is essential.


    Every year, the California Strawberry Commission conducts more than 40 interactive workshops, in Spanish, for strawberry farm crew supervisors and ranch managers to improve their supervisory knowledge and skills. Topics include sexual harassment prevention, heat illness prevention, on-farm safety, as well as communication, team building and leadership skills. In the past year, nearly 3,500 participants attended supervisor development, food safety and irrigation management workshops.


    Workers on strawberry farms have the opportunity to earn more than the minimum wage. According the California Employment Development Department labor statistics, California berry farms pay an annual average wage of over $12.50 per hour: $12.62 per hour in March 2014, the most recently posted statistics. (Minimum wage in California will increase to $10/hour January 1, 2016.) Seasonally, harvest workers can earn more than $30 per hour during peak harvest.

    These wages are better than comparable jobs in retail and tourism. In addition, most farm employees receive health insurance: farms with 50 or more employees comply with the Affordable Health Care Act health insurance coverage options.

    All farm employees receive medical and disability insurance for work-related injuries. Under California’s worker compensation system, employees are provided prompt, effective medical treatment for on-the-job injuries or illnesses, no matter who is at fault.


    California strawberry farms have been a ladder to success for many immigrants to improve their lives. Field workers can advance to crew supervisor, quality checker, tractor driver and truck driver positions. Some gain the skills and education to become pest control advisers. Others may advance to ranch manager positions.

    Strawberries have also given immigrants more ownership opportunities than any other major crop, with Latinos now comprising two-thirds of the strawberry growers in California.

    The California Strawberry Commission has determined that more than one-third of the strawberry farmers in the state started as field workers.


    Although, my grandparents found their way to a better life in the Midwest, immigrants from all over the world have come for the potential to succeed in California. Strawberry fields can be a starting place, where it takes many different kinds of jobs to raise and harvest fruit for market. With opportunities for training and advancement, and even the potential to become a grower, workers can find their path to their own American Dream.


    Carolyn O’Donnell is communications director of the California Strawberry Commission.

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    California strawberry farms have been a ladder to success for many immigrants to improve their lives. Field workers can advance to crew supervisor, quality checker, tractor driver and truck driver positions. Some gain the skills and education to become pest control advisers. Others may advance to ranch manager positions.
    Question. Why do you as an official of the California Strawberry Commission talk about "immigrants"? Improving their lives? Why aren't you talking about hiring American Workers and advancing their lives?

    Sounds to me like you deliberately seek out illegal alien and immigrant labor, intentionally closing the doors on American Workers. When you only talk about hiring "immigrants", that sends a message to American Workers that you won't hire them because you have no interest in hiring them.

    Therefore, we're going deport all illegal aliens and close the door on immigration with at least a 10 Year Moratorium and force your dumb asses to hire American Workers and pay them whatever they need or want to pick your berries so they can not only enjoy the wonders of gainful employment (with health insurance benefits) paying up to $30 an hour in peak season, but have the opportunities to work up the ladder to supervisor, checker and driver positions.

    The clear and present bias towards immigrants reveals a preposterous discrimination against American Workers, and that can only be driven by an inbred nationality prejudice against American Workers.

    How in the hell did strawberry cream pie and strawberry shortcake become the root of violations of US immigration, US labor and US civil rights laws with the boldness of press releases bragging about it??!!

    I'll never touch another strawberry until I know the source of this strawberry outrage has been obliterated from the landscape of the United States of America.
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    http://www.californiastrawberries.com/contact_us


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    For thousands of immigrants
    to California, the path to the
    American Dream quite literally
    winds its way through the state’s
    40,000 acres of strawberry fields.

    IT STARTS IN THE STRAWBERRY FIELDS


    Perhaps more than any other crop, strawberries are
    defined by decades of immigrants from Europe, Asia and Mexico. Not only do they work in the fields as harvesters, but they benefit from the unique attributes of strawberry farming that create numerous opportunities for upward mobility, including farm ownership.

    20%

    of all California
    strawberry farmers are
    of Japanese or other
    Asian descent

    65%

    of all California
    strawberry farmers
    are of Mexican
    descent

    15%

    of all California
    strawberry farmers
    are of European
    descent


    “Just as Japanese immigrants climbed the ladder of agricultural success,
    moving up from pickers to sharecroppers to independent growers, Latinos who came as immigrant laborers are making a similar leap.”

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    Immigrants, immigrants, immigrants = Immigrants.

    I'll not touch another strawberry until the "immigrants" who own these farms in California start hiring American Workers.

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    California Crops

    California Agricultural Commodities:

    Items below produced or grown in California rank #1 in the US.

    California Crops

    California % of US production is shown.


    Artichokes - 99%
    Asparagus-55%
    Broccoli-93%
    Cabbage-22%
    Carrots-89%
    Celery-94%
    Garlic-86%
    Lettuce-78%
    Cantaloupe-54%
    Honeydew-73%
    Onions-27%
    Bell Peppers-47%
    Spinach-18%
    Tomatoes -94%
    Almond-99%
    Apricots-95%
    Avocados-84%
    Strawberries-90%
    Dates-82%
    Figs-98%
    Grapes-88%
    Kiwi-97%
    Lemons-89%
    Nectarines-93%
    Olives-100%
    Peaches-76%
    Pistachios-96%
    Plums-93%
    Walnuts-99%
    Honey-18%
    Milk & Cream-21%

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