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hire them but I can’t put them up. So then they go down the road, looking for somewhere else <br />most likely to work, or they go and rent a house; five, eight, ten of them get together and they <br />actually rent a house. At the end of the season they prune coffee for us, and they leave. Some <br />stick around, some stay around. Some of them get into the construction business, and usually <br />when that happens, we don’t see them again in the harvesting business. <br />WOODWARD: If I might -. <br />WATANABE: Follow-up question? <br />WOODWARD: Yeah, if I might follow up. So you know how many are coming in, you <br />don’t know how many are going out, is basically what you are telling me. Is that right? <br />GREENWELL: I personally, you mean, the ones that come to our farm and live on the -? <br />WOODWARD: Right. The ones that, your seasonal workers that come from Central <br />America, you know how many are coming in but you don’t know how many leave the country <br />legally, right? <br />GREENWELL: Yeah, I have, I mean, of everyone that comes into Kona to work, the total <br />picking force, no, I have no idea. <br />WATANABE: Ms. Bowman, it looked like you had a question earlier, no? <br />BOWMAN: Not right now. <br />WATANABE: Okay. Mr. Domingo. <br />DOMINGO: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You check if they meet all the immigration <br />requirements and laws upon hiring them? <br />GREENWELL: Yeah, we have the procedures that were set forth to hire legal immigrants. <br />DOMINGO: How long have they been working for you as farm labors? I know you <br />mentioned the once they get out and taste the, go into the labor market for construction, then they <br />never come back because there’s no comparison between what you can get as a labor, union <br />worker and a farm labor. <br />GREENWELL: I’m sorry, I -. <br />DOMINGO: How long do they remain with you before they change to other jobs? <br />GREENWELL: A lot of the construction workers also like to do the picking; a good coffee <br />picker can make good money. And normally when they are -. See, I don’t bring them in. I’m <br />not calling them up and bring in people; and they actually come in on their own. We are trying <br />to change that. We are trying to follow a different program. But the ones that come in usually <br />EXHIBIT B <br />7 <br /> <br />