The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — The state agency in charge of overseeing workplace safety is failing to ensure proper living conditions are provided to thousands of migrant and seasonal farmworkers, according to a federal complaint filed by Legal Aid of North Carolina.
The complaint, filed with the U.S. Department of Labor, says that some poultry plant workers and fieldhands live in overcrowded, rundown temporary camps with unsanitary cooking and bathroom facilities and says the North Carolina Department of Labor's Agricultural Safety and Health Division is failing to address the problem.
"Despite numerous housing and field safety violations. . .
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