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Central Coast contingent lobbies lawmakers to change farmworker union elections.

Osiris Salgado grabs an armful of red flags emblazoned with the black United Farm Workers eagle and hands them out to her North Monterey County High School classmates. The students have just arrived at the sunny state capitol, having boarded a UFWchartered bus at about 6:30am in foggy Castroville. The group is one of seven busloads of Central Coast farmworkers and UFW supporters in Sacramento to mourn six farmworkers who died this year. The UFW says heat-related illness killed the six. Today, Aug. 18, the group will lobby legislators to pass a bill that would make it easier to unionize ag workers.

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