Opinion ID: 1281454
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Heading: Labor Camp Facilities

Text: The grower operates labor camps to house agricultural workers at both its Kern County and Imperial Valley operations. The Lakeview labor camp, southwest of Bakersfield in Kern County, consists of separately fenced areas containing two barracks buildings or bunkhouses, a kitchen and dining facility, and an equipment storage area. The separately fenced kitchen and dining facility is connected to the barracks area by a fenced walkway. The entire compound is also surrounded by a chain link fence. Immediately outside the camp is a company-owned park. The nature of the facility in which the workers here live  a communal barracks  is deserving of specific mention. Each of the bunkhouses at the Lakeview camp consists of a single dormitory room containing 60 double bunks (120 beds) arranged in 4 rows. The two outside rows are separated from the two center rows by aisles six to eight feet wide. Partitions are set up to create three-sided cubicles for two double bunks (four beds). The cubicles are open on the side that faces the aisle. The double bunks in each cubicle stand only four feet apart. Each bunkhouse contains a shower and toilet facility and there is also a lounge area approximately 10 to 15 feet wide spanning the width of the dormitory room at one end. A single switch controls overhead lights for the entire dormitory room. In the Imperial Valley, the grower leases a camp facility near Holtville and operates it for its agricultural employees. There is one entrance to the fenced camp, which consists of four concrete block buildings. Two of the buildings are used as bunkhouses, one building contains the kitchen and dining facilities, and another contains shower and bathroom facilities. The bunkhouses are similar to the ones at the Lakeview camp. Each bunkhouse consists of a single room, approximately 20 feet by 70 or 75 feet in size. There are two rows of double bunks in the bunkhouse. Plywood partitions form cubicles around sets of double bunks four feet apart, in a similar fashion to the bunks at the Lakeview camp.