While many Americans are working from home, farmworkers have continued laboring in fields.
Farmworkers in the United States are classified as essential workers.Cleotilde is a farmworker in Ventura County who wears a colorful bandana to protect her from the sun and pesticides, but since"Farm work is an honorable job, but a tough job," she said. Her employers have implemented social distancing in the fields, but she said she's worried about putting her three daughters at risk when she returns home.
Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California. Her employer has implemented strict social distancing guidelines and ramped up sanitation practices in order to help keep Lazaro and her co-workers safe, but she has heard reports of farmworkers in neighboring towns who've been infected with COVID-19. She said she's put aside her fears to keep working, to provide for her son who's deaf.Farm laborers with Fresh Harvest wash their hands before work on April 28, 2020 in Greenfield, California.
At the beginning of the outbreak, Wilmer Jimenez, western coordinator at the Rural and Migrant Ministry, said some farmworkers in New York state were told to keep working even though they were exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19. Farm laborers from Fresh Harvest working with an H-2A visa maintain a safe distance as a machine is moved on April 27, 2020 in Greenfield, California.
In neighboring San Luis Obispo County, Ryan Talley also said he's focusing his efforts on keeping employees safe -- staggering shifts, limiting the number of people riding in each vehicle, disinfecting all of the shared facilities multiple times a day. In some cases, he's reduced production in order to increase safety for employees -- people he refers to as his extended family.
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