Now, they may add another name to those creating major changes in the farming workplace: Jose Martinez. When people think of farmworkers, often they think of migrant workers and labor organizers like Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. "I love the fields because you're in the open air," he told NPR in his native Spanish, sitting on the lawn outside his home in Sunnyside, Wash. Irrigation, grapes, apples, mushrooms, dairies and now cherries. Martinez worked in agriculture across the fields of California and, most recently, Washington state. "When it's hot, do you have a place to protect yourself from the sun and heat?" he calls out to some workers on the side of an apple orchard on a sunny June morning. Now 67, he drives around the Yakima Valley in Washington state checking on fellow workers. Jose Martinez has lived and worked in the United States since he was 14 years old.
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