KCBX s Francisco Martinez reports.
Strawberry field workers in San Luis Obispo County striked for a second day July 2, demanding better wages.
Workers are demanding West Coast Berry Farms pay them $14 hourly wages, $1.25 per strawberry box and $2 per unit of juice.
The strike was organized by the farm workers and received a publicity boost on Instagram from the Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project.
Strikers, present since 5:30 a.m., received an offer around two hours later from a West Coast Berry Farms representative for $2.40 per strawberry box and $2 per juice unit, but no hourly wage, according to community organizer Fernando Martinez.
A South County teachers union is siding with three Lucia Mar Unified School District board members who are facing the threat of a recall election for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a letter to community members on May 5, Lucia Mar Unified Teachers Association President Cody King called the recall effort a witch hunt that would only succeed in wasting taxpayer dollars. click to enlarge File Photo By Kasey Bubnash ENOUGH IS ENOUGH At a rally outside the Lucia Mar Unified School District office on May 4, Michael Mulder, vice president of Central Coast Families for Education Reform, announced plans to recall three of the district s board members.
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Progressive-Dems have plenty of causes to push their desire for equality to new levels of activism. But all they seem to accomplish is protesting and talking. There was the whole controversy over
Paso Robles Joint Unified School District board member Chris Arend who believes systemic racism is a fallacy and yells at Spanish speakers because the district translator doesn t translate very well as well as some of Arend s ideological cronies on the board who are worried that teaching a high school ethnic studies course will unfairly target white students. (Insert eye roll.) These elected officials represent a school district that is majority Latino with a high percentage of families who speak Spanish at home.
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