Farmworkers are essential all the time
By Bob Ortega, CNN Investigates
He's considered an 'essential' worker. What he feels, though, is underpaid and at risk.
“As a farmworker, Salvador Calzadillas has been deemed "essential" during the Covid-19 pandemic. What he feels, though, is underpaid and at risk.
Calzadillas, who works near Bakersfield, California, said he mostly has had to scrounge up his own masks and protective gear since the start of the pandemic. He's repeatedly switched jobs and employers -- from picking blueberries and cherries, to thinning greens to cleaning carrots to weeding grapevines -- in search of better pay and safer working conditions” (Bob Ortega, CNN).
Link to full article: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/26/us/farmworker-coronavirus-invs/index.html
