Agricultural Field Work

[Jeanfromfillmore]

This was advertised in the local paper. You'll notice the pay is not minimum wage, housing and transportation is included and the gov. provides medical, education, food, legal fees and just about any and everything they need. And don't think they live in a shack, some have recently been built and are very nice places to lay your hat. The growers complain they can't get enough workers, but those workers I've spoken with say they can't get enough work. Some of the jobs pay more than what is posted here. They get paid hourly plus piece work.


HELP WANTED
Agricultural Field Workers - Plan and cultivate crops for vegetable and fruit production; Set up, operate, and maintain irrigation equipment; Irrigate soils and plants, using pipes and ditch systems; Pull plans for transplanting; Set plants by hand and perform activities on a plant setter; Perform hand cultivation tasks, hand weeding, and hoeing in field; Load and unload supplies, packing equipment, and machinery with water, soap and chemicals; Keep count of harvested and loaded crops, ensuring accuracy of all counts, record keeping, overages, shortages, wrong product harvested and other record keeping; Unload packing supplies from equipment; Pick vegetable/fruits from plants or use knife to remove vegetable/fruit from plant according to size, color, shape and degree of maturity; Remove bloom end and place individual vegetable/ fruit in container or on conveyor belt of packing machine; May work on packing equipment; Circulate and push vegetable/fruit in a water tank; May separate vegetable/fruit according to size and uniformity and place in container; and Close container after packing and stacks full containers according to size. $10.24 per hour. The employer guarantees to offer the worker employment for a total number of work hours equal to at least three-fourths of the workdays of the total period beginning with the first workday after the arrival of the worker at the place of employment or the advertised contractual first day of need, whichever is later, and ending on the expiration date specified in the work contract or in its extensions, if any. Housing will be made available at no cost to all workings within a reasonable commuting distance. Transportation and subsistence expenses to the worksite will be provided by the employer or paid by the employer upon completion of 50% of the work contract, or earlier, if appropriate in the amount of $11.13. This is a temporary position. 45 positions are available. Applicants must apply at the State Workforce Agency in Sacramento, California. 800 Capitol Mall, MIC-55 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 653-9900. Job Order number: CA12900564. Job Location: Pacific Country Labor, Inc., 957 Faulkner Rd., Suite 211, Santa Paula, CA 93060.