Special Report: Voices of Children of Farmworkers Demanding Driscoll’s Boycott
“One day—I think it was a Sunday—where we were picking strawberries, it was raining, and it was like super cold, like the wind and stuff like that. And I was kind of feeling a little sick. It was like around 12:00. And I wanted to go home, so I asked my mom. And then she said, if I’m like not feeling well, we should go home. And then my mom told the supervisor. But the supervisor said like, ‘If you guys don’t get back to work, your whole—you guys all will get fired, and then you guys will find someplace to live.’ Like just like right away, like at the same day, you get fired and then you have to find a place to stay.”
- Alfredo Juárez, a 16-year-old who has been picking berries for Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington state since he was 13.