{"id":657137,"date":"2013-05-09T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=229175"},"modified":"2013-05-09T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:06:49","slug":"fired-for-fleeing-fire-15-lose-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657137","title":{"rendered":"Fired For Fleeing Fire: 15 Lose Their Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 people were fired last week for abandoning their jobs picking strawberries in California when a wildfire got a little too close to where they were.<\/p>\n

The Springs Fire<\/a> left 28,000 acres burned and devastated a large portion of Ventura County, but that didn’t stop the foremen at a nearby strawberry farm from threatening<\/a> the employees with termination if they left. The workers took off anyway due to the large amount of smoke and ash in the air.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ashes were falling on top of us,\u201d one worker told NBC LA<\/a>. \u201cThey told us if we leave, there would be no job to return to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, they were fired when they returned to their jobs on May 3rd, and contacted the United Farm Workers for help even though they weren’t part of a union.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo worker shall work under conditions where they feel his life or health is in danger,\u201d Lauro Barrajas of the UFW said.<\/p>\n

Eventually, the workers were offered their jobs back, but only one person accepted.<\/p>\n

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15 people were fired last week for abandoning their jobs picking strawberries in California when a wildfire got a little too close to where they were. The Springs Fire left 28,000 acres burned and devastated a large portion of Ventura County, but that didn’t stop the foremen at a nearby strawberry farm from threatening the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}