HATFIELD Longtime farmworkers and co-owners of Riquezas del Campos Farm, Audi Gonzalez and Marcelino Martinez have experienced firsthand the mistreatment people working on farms can endure, from long hours in the fields and no overtime pay to below.
NORTHAMPTON The City Council on Thursday passed the first reading of a resolution endorsing the Fairness for Farmworkers Act, which is moving through the state Legislature.The bill (S.1205, H.1979) eliminates the $8 subminimum wage for farmworkers.