{"id":796,"date":"2009-06-02T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/02\/a-fair-wage-for-farm-workers\/"},"modified":"2009-06-02T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T12:11:00","slug":"a-fair-wage-for-farm-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/06\/02\/a-fair-wage-for-farm-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"A fair wage for farm workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20090602\/NEWS03\/306029971\">a detailed look today<\/a> at the debate in Albany over worker benefits for farm hands.<\/p>\n<p>Farming interests &#8212; and many North Country lawmakers &#8212; see the proposed bill as a devastating blow to the region&#8217;s farmers. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Darrel J. Aubertine, D-Cape Vincent, said at a press conference, &#8220;Proponents of this bill have all the best of intentions, but this bill would hurt farm workers and farmers alike. It does not do what they intend it to do.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But labor groups say the bill would insure overtime pay, the right to unionize, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  Many modern farms look more like factories than traditional mom-and-pop operations.<\/p>\n<p>Should their workers receive the same benefits as factory workers?<\/p>\n<p>Or is this a case of ham-handed New York City-types imposing thoughtless regulation on rural communities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Watertown Daily Times has a detailed look today at the debate in Albany over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}