""You just gotta suck it up, and you gotta work through it," he said on a recent Sunday, his only day off that week."
""We believe he was targeted," says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create."
""It really smelled bad," he said. "It gave me headaches.""
A 14-year-old named Jose labors long hours in Salinas Valley strawberry fields, working summers and weekends since age 11 to help his family. He is paid by the box, earning $2.40 per filled box, and sometimes ends up earning less than minimum wage for his hours. He twisted his ankle while running with a full box but did not report the injury for fear of losing his job. Many pickers are minors and relatives who face heat without required shade and exposure to strong chemical odors from tractor spraying that caused headaches.
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