Maria was only 17 (and pregnant) when she died (her approved wine list)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.ufw.org/_page.php?menu=organizing&inc=orga_label.html

WINE
Chateau Ste. Michelle
Columbia Crest
Saddle Mountain
Farron Ridge
North Star
Snoqualmie
St. Supery

Dollarhide Ranch

Scheid Vineyards Inc.
Balletto
Charles Krug
C.K. Mondavi
C.R. Cellars

BLACK EAGLE WINES
United Farm Workers launch Black Eagle Wines. Vineyard workers now offer their own Napa Valley union wines that celebrate justice. http://www.ufw.org/_board.php?mode=view&b_code=news_press&b_no=3950&page=1&field=&key=&n=516

http://www.blackeaglewines.com/

About Maria: State fines labor firm over death

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/A_NEWS/807240324/-1/A_NEWS05

By Jennie Rodriguez
Record Staff Writer
July 24, 2008 6:00 AM

SACRAMENTO - Atwater-based Merced Farm Labor, the contractor investigated in the death of Lodi teen Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez last spring, was fined $262,700 by the state Wednesday for failure to follow heat illness prevention regulations at the time Jimenez was stricken.

Jimenez, a 17-year-old pregnant farm laborer, collapsed May 14 in a Farmington vineyard operated by West Coast Grape Farming and died two days later. Her death from heatstroke was ruled an occupational death by the San Joaquin County coroner.

The fine to Merced Farm Labor is the largest an agriculture operation has received under heat regulations enacted in 2006 and championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. They require employers to provide adequate shade and water, employee and supervisor education on heat-related illnesses, rest periods and an emergency plan.

The citations issued Wednesday included three serious and willful citations, each with a $70,000 fine: failing to provide heat illness prevention training to employees; failing to provide heat illness prevention training to supervisors; and failing to provide prompt medical attention in the case of a serious injury in a remote location.

The company also received two fines of $22,500 for serious citations: failing to provide readily accessible water and failing to permit access to water at all times.

Two additional violations costing $1,350 each were for failing to train new employees about the requirements of the injury and illness prevention program, and failing to include written procedures for complying with heat illness prevention requirements.

FULL story at link.

[speedoo]

1. K&R. Thanks for posting this. nt

[hedgehog]

2. Are any table grapes acceptable?

I boycotted them for years when the kids were little- it's about the only fruit they don't scarf down now.

[Omaha Steve]

3. Frozen grapes are great kids snacks

I don't see grapes on any list except the UFW wine lists.