Of ways that it can have an impact, both on the hiring and employee side, as well as on the owner side. On the hiring side, setting standards for hiring contracts with vendors can set a high bar for companies that are receiving the Public Airways to live up to those sorts of standards on the structure that can impact the ownership side. Perverting competition. He surely set off structures that allow for small women and minor minor owned businesses to create compete in the auctions. You may not have all the ideas but we are interested in finding out what other ideas can be brought forward and celebrate the chamber recently reinstating the Advisory Committee on diversity and digital empowerment. Those are the sorts of things we love to see at the fcc where stakeholders can come together and come up with other tactics to promote diversity. Thank you chairman, my time is up. , we hear from senator blackburn. Thank you mr. Chairman. I want to thank our witnesses for being here to talk about
Counted for over 50 percent of all did child fatalities the arned my masters degree. However the majority of farmers do not even graduate high school they drop out four times the national average. I am not alone for these are the same harrowing experiences i heard my parents and grandparents and also heard from other farmers throughout my career. Its experience approximate 3000 farm working children today each of them a life, person, part of our community. But would be even more heartbreaking as congress chooses to do nothing will be the same experience youre going to hear from children 20 years from now. Data clearly shows agriculture to the u. S. Child labor laws to the detriment of child farm workers which the majority are u. S. Citizens. The care act sponsored by representative cosponsored by many members of this committee will give children working agriculture the same workplace protection that every other working child is provided. The protect 12 yearolds from exploitation and re
Examine ways to improve safety conditions for youth would that that workon farms around americ. Today we are meeting to examine workplace detections for child farmworkers. Todays hearing represents the third in the series for spotlight workers that are all too often overlooked, neglected and exploited. The hearings have been invented to lift workers up and champion their causes. Each day hundreds of thousands many of whom come from low income migrant families risk their health and wellbeing while working on farms across the country. Child farmworkers should be able to rely on the basic workplace protections that are standard. Unfortunately, the nations labor law has left the child workers behind. While the fair standard laborers fact provides protections in the workforce, children working in the Agricultural Industry are either excluded from many of these protections were provided Legal Protections for example unlike other industries, child farmworkers can be assigned hazardous jobs fr
But there is a new transit strike on the horizon that could wreak havoc for thousands of commuters. Tonight the Union Representing ac transit is threatening to strike wednesday if demands are not met. Were live at the terminal with the story tonight. Commuters and cross hairs with this threat as well. Yes. Ac transit shock asked surprise they had plan to strike on wednesday even if wrk workers have walked out. So, the transit nightmares continue. I will have to probably start my commute at 4 00 in the morning and figure out how much it will cost me to park here. Joanne is already trying to figure out how to cope with 1800 drivers and workers strike on wednesday. The threat left sheri almost speechless. Theyre just two of the 181,000 riders who depend on a sfts, daily n oakland, local 192 president delivered a formal strike notice tou mtx commissioners at headquarters she says the strike notice would have gone out even if the governor had not stopped workers from walking out. We did not
Resolved. Providing a meal and rest period for transit operators. Its not been part of the procession at this point. Clarence johnson is the spokesperson who says the real Sticking Point are wages and health and welfare benefits. The union contributes nothing towards health benefits. And there are several proposals on the table getting them to that 10 figure over the course of the three year contract. Williams says there is wiggle room for continued bargaining without a strike. If we do make progress well continue to go past it but it would have to be significant progress with a number of issues. Without progress the buses will stop rolling wednesday moshing. With the strike averted there are questions tonight about whether this break in the negotiate yaigs will lead to a productive settlement. This panel will be taking testimony here in the bay area. Abc 7 news is live for us in oakland. Laura . Were there, today, here at the caltrans building were told the Governors Committee will ge