Thanks to North Bay Jobs With Justice, de Leon and her fellow farmworkers are (re-)learning skills many of their ancestors knew well. Calling themselves trabajadores de la tierra (land workers), farmworkers like de Leon say they’re tired of having their labor used by the vineyard bosses to deplete the land. For their labor, workers earned $35 per hour, a significant increase from what they were paid by the vineyards. “The farmworkers come from a difficult job—not just physically hard, but one in which they have used the land,” Duce Aragüés says. Trabajadores de la tierra (land workers) pose for a group photo on August 18th, 2022.