“Without Shade, Without Rest” Film Screening, Meal, and Panel Discussion
September 10 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
For Season of Creation 2026, St. James Episcopal Church in Hendersonville is screening the documentary, “Without Shade, Without Rest,” highlighting the hazards of farm a
nd nursery workers, who labor in sweltering heat without heat/water/nutrition breaks, since OSHA still has no regulations about outdoor worker safety.
nd nursery workers, who labor in sweltering heat without heat/water/nutrition breaks, since OSHA still has no regulations about outdoor worker safety.Food trucks will serve meals, and a panel discussion will follow the 40-minute film describing the farmworker experience in Henderson County.
The film features a grassroots group of farmworkers in the 1990’s – now the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) who united to protect their fellow workers, after getting no heat safety accommodations from their employers.