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Just another reason to vote Obama and his cronies out of office next year. If these regulations were on the book when I was kid, I would not have been able to help my step-dad when he was a hog buyer through the local sale barn. The new regulations would prohibit anyone under age 18 from working at grain elevators, feed yards, sale barns, etc as well as those under 16 from detassling corn.
More inside the link.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20111217/BUSINESS/312170023/Child-labor-proposals-draw-fire-from-farmers
More inside the link.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20111217/BUSINESS/312170023/Child-labor-proposals-draw-fire-from-farmers
Proposed child labor laws that would essentially take kids under age 16 out of tractor cabs on farms other than on their family-owned operations have touched off a “cultural war” between farmers and the Department of Labor.
Gov. Terry Branstad, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey and 70 congressmen have sent letters to U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis urging that the rules be put off.
Supporters of the rules say that farming is dangerous and that new regulations are necessary to protect migrant children and others.
Farmers fear that any changes in rules, real or potential, could interfere with the flow of labor on their own and neighboring farms.
For instance, many Iowa farmers also work adjacent land they rent, and they worry that their children who have long driven tractors at ages of 12 or younger won’t be able to help on the non-owned land.