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California farmworkers sue over heat safety

The United Farm Workers union sued California's occupational health and safety agency on Thursday, accusing it of doing too little to prevent farm laborers' deaths from heat illness.

The lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court in Los Angeles, says 11 farmworkers have died from heat illness since....

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