Legal Groups Say State Proposal to Protect Farmworkers from Summer Heat Is “Totally Inadequate”
Attorneys from the ACLU of Southern California and the private law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP will join representatives of the United Farm Workers of America and current field laborers at press conferences in Los Angeles and Sacramento on Thursday, June 18, at 10:00 a.m., to sharply criticize the state’s proposed new emergency standard regarding heat-related illness for outdoor workers. The standard proposed by California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board is totally inadequate as a remedy, and only underscores the state’s failure to protect the workers on whom California’s huge agricultural industry depends.
LOS ANGELES:
WHAT: Press conferences on failure of Cal/OSHA to protect farmworkers
WHEN: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: Los Angeles press conference only:ACLU of Southern California
1313 W. 8th Street Los Angeles, CA 90017
WHO: Catherine Lhamon, ACLU/SC assistant legal director, Bradley S. Phillips, attorney, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Arturo S. Rodriguez, president, United Farm Workers of America, Relative of farmworker who died of heat-related illness, Farmworkers
SACRAMENTO:
WHAT: Press conference on failure of Cal/OSHA to protect farm workers
WHEN: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 10:00 a.m.
WHERE: State Capitol, sidewalk area in front of State Capitol on L and 11th streets, Sacramento, CA
WHO: Gabriel Sanchez, attorney, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, Merlyn Calderon, national vice president, United Farm Workers, Doroteo Jimenez, relative of 17-year-old farm worker Maria Isabel Jimenez who died of heat-related illness Farm workers,
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