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Food, extreme heat and human labour on plantations

Too hot to harvest: Rising heat threatens farm labor and food security farming work
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https://phys.org/news/2025-10-hot-harvest-threatens-farm-labor.html
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Too hot to harvest: Rising heat threatens farm labor and food security

Imagine a farm in 2050. It's summer and solar radiation and humidity are peaking. Fruit picking machines hum and cooling mist sprays overhead. In the haze, a robot stands among the rows of fruit. It scans two strawberries—one red and ripe, the other still green. It hovers, hesitates, then makes its pick.

Phys.org

Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Jun 12, 2025

"Monterey County Agriculture is a $4.3 billion-dollar economic sector that depends on 55,000 farmworkers to harvest our crops each year, primarily immigrants; some have resided in our communities for decades.
Our nation’s fresh food supply and local economy are fully dependent on this workforce, and we consider this a #NationalSecurity priority in a time of agricultural labor shortages.” —#MontereyCounty Farm Bureau https://montereycfb.com/immigration-resources/

Two-page guidelines below, “What to do if ICE or Border Patrol show up at your fields or facilities,” posted by Rep Jimmy Panetta (California’s 19th Congressional District) on June 10, 2025: https://panetta.house.gov/services/immigration-resources

#SalinasValley #SaladBowlOfAmerica #PajaroValley #MontereyCounty #SantaCruzCounty #SantaClaraCounty #SanLuisObispoCounty #immigrants #AgriculturalWorkers

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Peter Riley May 20, 2025

Ascott Martyrs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascott_Martyrs

From the “Tolpuddle to the Cotswolds”
https://tolpuddletothecotswolds.co.uk/

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#Tolpuddle #WorkingClassHistory

Ascott Martyrs - Wikipedia

Peter Riley May 20, 2025

May 20th 1873

On 20 May 1873, 16 women from Ascott-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire, England, were sent to prison for their role in forming the Agricultural Workers' Union and became known as the Ascott martyrs. Local farm workers had joined the union, so the landowner sacked them and instead hired workers from the nearby village of Ramsden.

https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9301/ascott-martyrs-sentenced

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Working Class History

Peter Riley May 5, 2025

#May1 2025 Jornaleras de Huelva en Lucha (#Huelva Day Laborers in Struggle) and the Andalusian Workers’ Union (#SOA).

...More : https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/165410/moroccan-agricultural-workers-huelva-form.html

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#solidarity #unions

Moroccan agricultural workers in Huelva form historic union to defend rights

Moroccan agricultural workers hired in Huelva have officially established their own union branch, supported by the collective Jornaleras de Huelva en Lucha (Huelva Day Laborers in Struggle) and the Andalusian Workers’ Union (SOA). Announced

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Peter Riley Nov 30, 2024

@ufwupdates

Source Durango Worker

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