Farmworkers And Laborers, Crop

Qué va a hacer

Texto original en inglés, tal como se registró en el Departamento de Trabajo.

Workers will perform assigned duties as described in this clearance order.
Field Workers will perform a variety of routine, repetitive, entry-level duties associated with the planting, cultivation, manual harvesting, and incidental field packing of Napa cabbage, Korean radish, and other seasonal vegetable crops at fixed-site grower locations. Work is performed entirely on foot in the field under the close, direct supervision of the Farm Labor Contractor (FLC) and team leads.
To harvest Napa cabbage and other vegetables, workers will walk down field rows behind a moving tractor and trailer, bending and reaching to identify mature vegetables using simple visual instructions provided by the supervisor. Using a hand knife, workers will manually cut cabbage at the base of the head, remove excess or damaged outer leaves according to supervisor instructions, and carefully place harvested produce into field bins, cartons, or onto harvest trailers. Produce must be handled carefully to prevent bruising. Workers will not drive or operate tractors or other motorized field machinery. For Korean radish and other root vegetable harvesting, workers will manually pull vegetables from the soil, shake off excess dirt, trim green tops or foliage to specified lengths using a hand knife as instructed by the supervisor, and place harvested vegetables into field bins, crates, or cartons.
As an incidental part of the harvesting process performed in the field, workers may conduct basic visual sorting of harvested vegetables according to simple quality standards and supervisor instructions. Workers may remove defective, diseased, or insect-damaged produce identified by the supervisor and may place acceptable produce into field cartons, crates, or bins for transport from the field. Any incidental field packing activities are performed only in conjunction with harvesting and are subordinate to the primary harvesting duties. Workers will not perform packing-house, packing-shed, processing, grading-line, cooling, warehousing, or shipping operations.
Prior to and during harvest, workers will participate in routine field preparation and crop maintenance, including manually planting or transplanting seedlings, hand-weeding with manual hoes or by hand-pulling weeds, and removing debris and dead plants from fields. Workers will also manually lay plastic ground cover, stake, tie, and prune tomato plants, and manually install, reposition, clear, or remove plastic mulch, drip irrigation lines, and micro-jets under supervisor direction.

General Farm Maintenance and Other Activities: When primary work is temporarily unavailable due to weather conditions, crop conditions, operational needs, or other lawful business reasons, workers may be assigned miscellaneous incidental duties directly related to the agricultural operation. These duties will not replace or substantially reduce the availability of primary agricultural work. Incidental duties may include general cleanup of the worksite and fields; weeding, trimming, digging, cutting, topping, and removing weeds, vines, debris, and trash from fields and fence lines; routine installation and removal of plastic mulch and irrigation drip tape; and routine inspection, repositioning, flushing, connecting, disconnecting, and removal of drip irrigation lines and micro-jets under supervisor direction. Field sanitation activities may include cleaning and disinfecting harvest buckets, field bins, harvest trailers, hand tools, knives, and similar field equipment. Workers may also assist with washing and removing dirt and plant residue from harvest trailers, field bins, and agricultural equipment used in field operations.

Requisitos

This type of work, involves working conditions that require tremendous stamina, a high level of physical activity in cold or extremely hot conditions in direct sunlight and in adverse weather such as rain. The work requires a high level of physical conditioning.

Beneficios y condiciones