[FARMWORKERS/ LABORERS, X149, Yakima, Selah, Wapato, Eltopia ]{times="" new="" roman";="" font-weight:="" bold"=""}[ ]{times="" new="" roman";="" font-weight:="" bold"=""}

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[This is a job order for field work and labor for the harvest of apples, pears, and]{times="" new="" roman""=""}

[cherries, as well as thinning, pruning, training, and other orchard labor.]{times="" new="" roman""=""}

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[Cherry Harvest: The worker will hand harvest marketable cherries on a motorized platform, from the ground and/or utilizing a ladder. The worker will attach the harness, bucket or bag and pick low hanging fruit. The worker will pick according to grade, color, and size by grasping fruit with their hands and removing it from the tree in a motion so as not to cause "picker damage" defined as harming adjacent buds on the tree branches, bruising, pulling stems or spurs. The worker will carry a harness, bucket, or bag of up to 20-30lbs and will place fruit into plastic lugs.]{times="" new="" roman""=""}

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[Pear & Apple Harvest: The worker will hand harvest marketable apples/ pears on a motorized platform, from the ground and/ or utilizing a ladder. The worker will attach the harness, bucket or bag and pick low hanging fruit, while standing on the ground and higher branches while standing on a ladder. The worker will pick according to grade, color, and size by grasping fruit with their hands and removing it from the tree in a motion that will not harm buds on tree branches. The worker will carry the harness or bag of up to 60 lbs. and will place the fruit into bins. The worker must exercise care at all times to prevent "picker damage", defined as bruising of fruit, stem/ spur punctures, clipper damage or other defects caused by improper care or technique. Some workers may be tasked with examining harvested fruit in bins and sort out any fruit not meeting the grade, color, and size specifications. Workers will be directed to "sort pick", based on a pre-communicated color standard or removal of physiological defects (sunburn, diseased fruit).]{times="" new="" roman""=""}

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[Thinning: The worker will hand thin on a motorized platform, from the ground, and/ or utilizing a ladder. The worker will use scissor-like clippers to remove small fruit blossoms, buds, and/ or identifiable fruit from within a cluster of other fruits. The workers mus ]{times="" new="" roman""=""}