Labor & Economic News Blog


Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Spinach scare hits Salinas Valley hard / Crops being plowed under; some workers already being laid off

Spinach scare hits Salinas Valley hard / Crops being plowed under; some workers already being laid off
By Meredith May and George Raine
When truck driver Daniel Rivas pulled his load of baby lettuce into a packing plant Monday, he heard the bad news -- at least 60 of the employees who depend on his hauls for their livelihoods had been laid off. That's because production of spinach,...

 



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