Farmworkers marched in Healdsburg on Sunday demanding higher wages and hazard pay.
HEALDSBURG -- Hundreds of Sonoma County farmworkers marched in Healdsburg Sunday demanding higher wages and hazard pay.'When it's hot in extreme heat when there's smoke, we're out there as farmworkers,' Isidro Rodriguez said on Sunday. 'We're taking care of these vines. From planting them, all the way until they make the grapes for the wine. This industry, this wine industry, is very rich. They are not paying us what we deserve.
'The rent is high the food is high. The wages are not keeping up with the cost of living,' he said.Workers are demanding $25 an hour or $250 for every ton of grapes picked. They also demand hazard pay, which would provide them with additional money when working through dangerous conditions such as wildfires and heat waves and compensation for hours lost.
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