Labor advocates push state to curtail hand-weeding crops.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: February 26, 2002| Author: Bazeley, Michael | Copyright information

SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Calling it "unfinished business" from the farmworker rights struggle, labor advocates are pressing California lawmakers to curtail the hand-weeding of row crops, a practice they say is crippling some farmworkers.

Advocates say growers and labor contractors are undermining a landmark 1975 ban on short-handled hoes by forcing farmworkers to weed crops by hand instead, causing them to work stooped over for as long as 10 hours a day.

They are s...

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