COVID-19 nearly killed a Washington farmworker. Now, the farm won't pay his worker's compensation

[TexasTowelie]

When Laura Sandoval said goodbye to her husband, Eduardo, in August, she thought he'd return home to Mexico in three months. She trusted that the fruit farm that hired him — Washington Fruit and Produce — would protect Eduardo from COVID-19.

Instead, he got a case of COVID that will cripple him for life.

And when Laura flew to Spokane to care for her husband, she thought the company would — at the very least — provide the workers compensation that Eduardo legally was entitled to for catching COVID-19 on the job.

But to this day, she hasn't seen a penny.

"I don't know how they can sleep at night, knowing the situation we're in," Laura tells the Inlander, through a translator.

Read more: https://www.inlander.com/spokane/covid-19-nearly-killed-a-washington-farmworker-now-the-farm-wont-pay-his-workers-compensation/Content?oid=21152134

[Enterstageleft]

1. What can be said. What more needs to be said.

[KT2000]

2. East side of WA

RW territory - they don't have to care because they are more American than the liberals who do care!

[Raster]

3. Once you cross over the Cascades, you are pretty much in Idaho...

...figuratively speaking.

[KT2000]

4. Good way of putting it

I may borrow that one!

[Raster]

5. Please do.

[hlthe2b]

6. THis is horrible, but did you know Health Care Workers are not eligible for workman's comp either?

I'd bet most of the country doesn't know that and it is all because of Trump admin neutralizing OSHA on behalf of big business.