12/31/2020
🥒FACT: Less than 2% of the American population is involved in the production of YOUR food!
🍎FACT: Virtually all fruits and vegetables are hand picked, requiring thousands and thousands of hours of careful, dedicate work to get your fresh fruits and veggies harvested.
🌽 FACT: The vast majority of American farms are family owned and depend on seasonal labor to meet the demand of your hungry months around YOUR dinner table.
State Senator Jessica Ramos
Governor Andrew Cuomo
Torrey Farms
Seasonal labor and agricultural guest workers are ESSENTAIL to NY agriculture. The seasonal nature of farming sometimes results in long days and even nights. The weather dictates our schedule, not the farmer. An 60 hour week might be followed by multiple days off due to an unplanned rain, keeping farmers and their help from the field.
Reducing the overtime threshold from 60 hours, will not only leave more fresh produce to rot, it will also take from workers paychecks and YOUR LOCAL economy. Farmers already work on slim margins, and cannot afford overtime pay to harvest their perishable goods. Workers will have to settle for less hours and a lower paychecks. These workers come from THOUSANDS of miles away to provide for THEIR families and a CHANCE to create a better life all while putting food on YOUR table.
Tomorrow, December 31st, 2020 the NYS Department Of Labor will make a decision on a reduction in the current overtime threshold of for NYS farm workers.
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NYS Sen. Jessica Ramos, D-Queens, visits with farm workers in Elba, NY. Ramos is sponsoring a farm workers bill that local farmers say will devastate their b...
