Support Overtime for California Farmworkers

07/28/2010

ACTION ALERT: Call the Gov. Schwarzenegger and urge him to Support SB 1121-supporting farmworkers being treated equally under the law by allowing them to be paid for overtime. Call Gov @ 916-445-2841

07/28/2010

ACTION ALERT: Call the Gov. Schwarzenegger and urge him to Support SB 1121-supporting farmworkers being treated equally under the law by allowing them to be paid for overtime. Call Gov @ 916-445-2841

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to veto legislation that would give workers on California farms the same overtime pay standards as most labor forces, the bill's author said today.

07/23/2010

Call or email Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar’s office NOW and tell him to sign the farmworker overtime bill into law. Dial 916-445-2841

This is a picture of Arturo Rodriguez (UFW President); Sen. Dean Florez (D-Shafter, CA); Msgr. James Murphy (Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament); and scores of farmworkers. They are kneeling in California’s State Capitol building and praying that Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar will sign SB 1121 into l...

07/21/2010

Call and tell the Governor to sign Farmworker Overtime (Senate Bill 1121) at 916-445-2841.

07/21/2010

Listen to the story: http://www.capradio.org/resources/audioplayer.aspx?articleid=8525

Nearly 100 farm workers paid a visit to Governor Schwarzenegger’s office today (Tuesday). They’re urging him to sign a bill that would expand their overtime pay. Ida Lieszkovszky reports from Sacramento.

07/21/2010

Video: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/video?id=7565955
Story: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news%2Fstate&id=7565919

California farm workers prompted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to pass a bill to improve their overtime pay.

07/21/2010

LATimes Blog: Farmworkers pray for Schwarzenegger to sign overtime bill. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2010/07/there-was-some-old-time-religion-in-front-of-the-governors-office-monday-as-about-50-members-of-the-united-farm-work.html

07/21/2010

Press Conference: Florez Farm Worker Overtime Bill Hand Delivered to Governor's Desk

For more, visit http://www.sen.ca.gov/florez

07/20/2010

Capitol Alert: Farmworkers turn up heat on Schwarzenegger to sign OT bill

Several dozen farm laborers -- joined by a priest from Sacramento's Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament -- marched to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office today to deliver a bill requiring overtime pay equity for farmworkers.

07/20/2010

Farmworkers pray for Schwarzenegger to sign overtime bill

There was some old-time religion in front of the governor’s office Monday as about 50 members of the United Farm Workers knelt and prayed for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign a bill that would provide overtime pay for agricultural employees. The call-and-response prayer session was led by a Cathol...

07/20/2010

Governor May Sign-Off on Overtime for Farmworkers
Gov. could sign bill that passed CA Assembly and Senate

Bill to pay farmworkers overtime lands on Gov. Schwarzenegger's desk today.

07/15/2010

MrcedSun-Star Our View: Time to pay overtime to farm laborers

California's multibillion-dollar farm industry would be a shadow of itself without seasonal and migrant farmworkers.