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California’s masking guidelines allow fully vaccinated people to go maskless in several indoor settings. But there are still plenty of reasons that you and the people around you can benefit from wearing masks, according to public health experts.
Monterey Mushrooms has hosted a vaccination site three times since farmworkers become eligible for the vaccine on Feb. 28.
Since then, it has able to vaccinate more than half of its 1,200 employees and hundreds more agricultural workers employed at other farms, said Shah Kazemi, president and CEO of Monterey Mushrooms.
Of the 500 farmworkers getting their vaccines Wednesday, 100 were Monterey Mushroom employees and the rest were other farmworkers in the county, he noted.
Kazemi said the pandemic has been especially hard on his business and employees.
“We have had as many as 50 to 60 people off at any given day, Kazemi said. So it s been very challenging.
The legislation would give growers, laborers what they most need and want, union leader says.
The United Farm Workers and West Coast agricultural groups agree on something.
Leaders of the nation s largest ag workers union are backing a revived bill in Congress that would reform the H-2A farm guestworker program, providing a path to legal status for undocumented workers and their immediate families.
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero and UFW Foundation Executive Director Diana Tellefson Torres heralded the reintroduction of the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act coauthored by U.S. Reps. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and Dan Newhouse, R-Wash.
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