Letters to the Editor 9-1-16

Abstensions
Editor:
Assemblyman Jim Wood has walked away from providing economic equality to those who harvest our food. AB 1066, which just managed to pass the State Assembly will, if Gov. Brown signs it, grant overtime pay to farmworkers after an eight-hour day and a 40 hour week — conditions the rest of us enjoy but they never have.
And Wood abstained. Didn’t vote. Shame on him, but — I suspect — kudos to the local dairy industry, whose fingerprints are all over this. For that matter, Sen. Mike McGuire didn’t vote, either, so that raises the fence even higher against parity for farmworkers.
What don’t Wood and McGuire get about economic justice?
Dave Henderson
Healdsburg