KGMI News
SUMAS, Wash. – Many of the workers who said they were fired from Sarbanand Farms in Sumas for complaining about working conditions are heading home.
Cliff Wooley with Sarbanand said the company is paying to send them back to Mexico. “We’ve actually gone beyond the contract,” Wooley said.
The workers said they expressed their concerns about the conditions after their colleague, Honesto Silva Ibarra, died.
Not all of the workers are taking the company up on the free travel offer.
The Seattle Times reports some are reluctant to go home, concerned they’ll be blacklisted from returning to the United States.