From workingimmigrants.com - United Farm Workers' Take our job for a day campaign

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((( workingimmigrants.com Update: Farm Workers' )))

2010.08.31 12:08:18

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Farm Workers' " Take our job " campaign

This July, the United Farm Workers launched a campaign on behalf of

immigration reform by inviting Americans to take on a farm worker's job

for a week. My thanks to Becki Shafer for alerting me to this. The UFW

wants immigration reform primarily in the AgJobs provision, a version of

which was in the failed immigration reform bill of 2008.

A UFW press release says that it has negotiated the AgJOBS bill with the

agricultural industry that would give undocumented farm workers

presently here the right to earn legal status by continuing to work in

agriculture. Senators Feinstein (D-CA) and Lugar (R-IN) are the

principal co-authors in the Senate and Congressman Adam Putnam (R-FL)

and Berman (D-CA) in the House.

Go here to enroll in the program. That website says that " Job may

include using hand tools such as knives, hoes, shovels, etc. Duties may

include tilling the soil, transplanting, weeding, thinning, picking,

cutting, sorting & packing of harvested produce. May set up & operate

irrigation equip. Work is performed outside in all weather conditions

(Summertime 90+ degree weather) & is physically demanding requiring

workers to bend, stoop, lift & carry up to 50 lbs on a regular basis. "

To see the UFW press release and enroll in the program, go to the link

below....

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http://www.workingimmigrants.com/2010/08/farm_workers_take_our_job_camp.

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