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Video: "California's Harvest of Shame"The Los Angeles Democrat and his crew were not always well received. In one scene, Nuñez confronts a field boss about a lack of shade for workers, which is a violation of state law. In another, an angry grower stalks toward the camera, ordering Nuñez and the crew off his tomato field. An eerie night scene shows workers toiling in the dark, picking onions by the light of headlamps, "faceless bodies working the soil," according Nuñez's narration.
His purpose? To persuade Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign one of his measures, now pending in the Legislature, intended to make it easier for farmworkers to unionize. Making the video -- with taxpayer-funded staff and equipment, though Assembly officials say they do not have a cost estimate -- was an unusual exercise for a state lawmaker. Their persuasive efforts normally stop at letter-writing.
The governor has taken no official position on the measure.
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