Marie Lys BIBEYRAN, wine employee in the Médoc, conducted, with the environmental association "Future generations", a survey that demonstrated, through a series of observation and analysis on the hair of 25 people (agricultural workers who work in vineyards, residents, and witnesses), that wine workers are most exposed to pesticides. We find their traces in their hair.
Each year in spring, with their passport and their employment contract, about 1500 Bretons go to Jersey to do the season. Seasonal workers (men and women) testify about their salary and living conditions in Jersey.
150 immigrant agricultural workers of Moroccan origin launched a hunger strike in the church of Saint Joseph in Avignon to obtain their regularization. Seasonal or undocumented workers, they apply for a residence and work permit. Interview with one of them, M'Hamed CHARKI, who lists their demands.
Denise ARMATYS and Pierre GOUTTENOIR were agricultural employees and have been fighting since they retired to ensure that their profession is respected and recognized. They denounce the living conditions of some employees housed by their bosses in sheds and note that employers are looking for a skilled workforce, without giving employees time to train.
As part of an investigation, in Carpentras, on the working conditions of clandestine Maghrebi agricultural workers employed during harvests in orchards, interview with Jean Pierre BERLAN, agricultural engineer of the INRA, which explains this use of clandestine labour in connection with the development of a Californian type of agriculture, specialized in a sector.
An agricultural worker employed as a handyman in a property in the Channel explains that he is fed, housed, receives a salary below the SMIG, does not receive a payslip and is reluctant to unionize for fear of not finding a job.