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...boycott that is effective today, however, the international table grape boycott, was issued by the UFW in 1984 to continue to fight for humane working conditions. But little has changed since the first and second boycot. Nearly one-third of the workforce is under 16 years old, and many of these workers paid less than minimum wage. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that the average income of a farm worker's family is less than $5,000 a year. Farmworkers are seldom supplied with toilets or even drinking water while working...
...however, is the use of harmful pesticides on grapes. Table grapes use such cosmetic pesticides such as Captan, Methyl Bromide, and Parathion because of the grapes thin and fragile skin. According to a report by the U.S. General Accounting office, many of these pesticides cannot be washed off and one-third of them are considered carcinogenic. The EPA reports that 300,000 farmworkers every year receive pesticide poisoning...
...curtail their use; and farmworkers face generally unhospitable working conditions, often lacking bathrooms and drinking water. Meanwhile, the UFW claims, consumers are also at risk. According to a 1992 study by the General Accounting Office, cited by the UFW, grapes are sprayed with 75 different kinds of pesticides--one-third of which are known to be carcinogenic--and between 20 and 50 percent of the grapes on supermarket shelves retained pesticide residues...
...anticipated event for California is heavy rain. Some meteorologists, however, remain skeptical and distinctly unimpressed by the grim Noachian predictions. For example, Jan Null of the National Weather Service in Monterey, Calif., points out that in the eight heaviest El Nino years, California experienced on average only about a one-third increase in rainfall. In fact, two of these years, 1965 and 1991, brought drought...
Simplify the recall process. Students ought to be able to fire delinquent council representatives more easily. Currently, impeachment is nearly impossible. One-third of a district must petition if it is dissatisfied with its representative. After that, turnout in the new election must exceed one-half of the district, and two-thirds of voters must wish to terminate that member's term. This is ridiculous. Make recall possible by decreasing the initial petition fraction and by decreasing the election turnout number to the percentage of the House which voted in the initial election...