Investigations Reveal Child Labor, Sewage, Unlicensed Workers in Michigan Blueberry Fields
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During inspections throughout the state, investigators found workers living in unlicensed migrant labor camps with sewage from a faulty septic system seeping up near living units. They also discovered untreated waste water spilling out of broken pipes, no hot water for hand washing and infestations of bugs and rodents.
(AP, 2009, October 30, par.11)
The U.S. Department of Labor announced this week that a check of 35 randomly selected farms in Michigan led to eight of them being fined about $36,000 in all for violating federal migrant-housing and child-labor laws.
(AP, 2009, October 30, par.4)
Ten other farms were cited for violations but not fined. Adkin was the lone farm fined for both migrant-housing and child-labor law violations and paid more than $5,500 in penalties, said Scott Allen, a Labor Department spokesman based in Chicago.
(AP, 2009, October 30, par.5)
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(AP, 2009, October 30, par.11)
The U.S. Department of Labor announced this week that a check of 35 randomly selected farms in Michigan led to eight of them being fined about $36,000 in all for violating federal migrant-housing and child-labor laws.
(AP, 2009, October 30, par.4)
Ten other farms were cited for violations but not fined. Adkin was the lone farm fined for both migrant-housing and child-labor law violations and paid more than $5,500 in penalties, said Scott Allen, a Labor Department spokesman based in Chicago.
(AP, 2009, October 30, par.5)
[more details at the link...]
[image: canr.msu.edu]
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33554339/ns/business-us_business/
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