The Central Valley produces the food for the world. With that production has come immense wealth and prosperity for many of its corporations and farmers.
This wealth was built on the backs of our mothers and fathers. Many of them immigrants, our mothers and fathers have given billion-dollar companies such as Foster Farms and Dole decades of the healthiest years of their lives. They have, over and over again, had to choose work over critical moments of their children’s lives – unable to attend birthdays, sports events and parent-teacher conferences.
With low wages and no guaranteed hours, they are at the mercy of the company to meet their families’ basic needs. They often lack flexibility and sustain unpredictable schedules.
