North Bay Farmworkers Demand Better Pay At Protest Rally In Healdsburg

CBS Bay Area

July 29, 2024

HEALDSBURG -- Hundreds of Sonoma County farmworkers marched in Healdsburg Sunday demanding higher wages and hazard pay.

"When it's hot in extreme heat (and) 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. If we weren't taking care of these plants, none of them would exist."

Rodriguez said he worked through the Point Fire, a Sonoma County wildfire that destroyed buildings, forced evacuations and caused officials to declare a state of emergency.

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