A third problem concerns not only the health of the worker. but the health of the consumers of strawberries and other produce because of the lack of toilet facilities in the field. Why do we wait until we have a severe epidemic of hepatitis before we react? The problem has persisted over and over and over again. Also we are looking at the issue of janitors on the West Coast that are mostly immigrant men and women. They work for minimum wages. for no benefits. more than the normal workload. and many of these workers are employed by contractors who sometimes keep up to 50 percent of their wages. We held hearings when I was in the California Senate. and we found that contractors negotiated a dollar amount for the contract.
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