A retired poultry and dairy farmer who died on Jan.
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And every other dairy farmer will say the same thing.
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One was a dairy farmer, another aspired to be a pilot.
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To be a dairy farmer in Wisconsin is a daily battle.
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Advertising JANA McCLELLAND is a third-generation dairy farmer in Petaluma, Calif.
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"Supply management has been good for the Canadian dairy farmer," he said.
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In Canada, most days there are waiting lists to become a dairy farmer.
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It is hard to be a new dairy farmer in the United States.
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Lawrence McNamee, a dairy farmer outside Letterkenny, near the border with Northern Ireland.
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"It would be a real backward step," one Irish dairy farmer told us.
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Brody Stapel, the president of the Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative in Green Bay, Wis.
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Eric Weaver, a Pennsylvania dairy farmer, posted one of his cows undergoing genomic testing.
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" He also fumed: "What they have done to our dairy farmer workers is a disgrace.
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Tim Walberg (R-Michigan) -- Jennifer Lewis, a third-generation dairy farmer from Hillsdale County Rep.
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Her father was a dairy farmer and later a crane operator in a steel mill.
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"We pray for protection," said Newberry, a dairy farmer whose son plays for the Rutland team.
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I called Tom Barcellos, a Central Valley dairy farmer, to better understand the mindset of Valley conservatives.
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Maggie, who belonged to Australian dairy farmer, Brian McLaren, was 30 at the time of her death.
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"The 1970s were a bloodbath for the dairy industry," said Stephen Henty, a dairy farmer in Victoria.
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Sine Kerr, the female dairy farmer and incumbent, easily bested him with 49 percent of the vote.
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If you aren't the son or daughter of a dairy farmer, good luck getting into the business.
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Mr. Chaney, a second-generation dairy farmer, remembers coming to an impasse with his father, James, in 2000.
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The Asian market, including China and South Korea, also are major export markets for the U.S. dairy farmer.
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Randy Koller, a longtime dairy farmer in Wisconsin, said the growth of the co-op promised market security.
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"I thought I was going to be a dairy farmer for the rest of my life," he said.
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The dairy farmer trying to make one last attempt to renegotiate her loan with the Farm Service Agency.
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A couple months ago, I was in West Texas, was visiting a dairy farmer, driving around the dairy farm.
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If you're an American dairy farmer, you're probably celebrating, though — American agriculture seems to benefit under the new deal.
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Wiens, the Manitoba dairy farmer, predicted the new trade deal will end up costing dairy producers significant revenue losses.
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Dairy farmer Brian Boman sums up the difficulties faced by locals seeking to live and work in the area.
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The business operations of a drug dealer or a terrorist have little in common with a Maryland dairy farmer.
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Dairy farmer Louise Giltrap says she has to think twice before starting her tractor as it costs her money.
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The dairy farmer and healthy, happy cows are what make for that kind of quality milk, packed with protein.
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Mr. Whitesides, an Idaho-based dairy farmer, bought Big Island Dairy in 2012, when it was flirting with bankruptcy.
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Near the end of it, I met a dairy farmer, and I asked him if he had an extra.
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If you're an American dairy farmer, you're probably celebrating — American agriculture, in general, does very well under the new deal.
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In April, 55-year old dairy farmer Pehlu Khan was accused of smuggling cows and was brutally beaten to death.
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The girl dreamed of becoming a dairy farmer like her father and grandfather, and felt that her classes were irrelevant.
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"They can't wait to have their lunch," said the dairy farmer as she arranged the trays in a neat line.
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So the fifth-generation dairy farmer in Montfort, Wisconsin cast a vote for President Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
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Mr. Austin's father, also a dairy farmer, had amassed more than 600 acres; after sell-offs, about 200 acres remain.
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Among those killed at the two mosques were students, engineers, a dairy farmer, a new father and an aspiring pilot.
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KERLÉGO, France — A dairy farmer, Jean-Pierre Le Guelvout, once kept 252 cows at a thriving estate in southern Brittany.
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In his fifteen years of coming to the Salon, Valentin Boulet, the dairy farmer from Normandy, had never seen Paris.
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Elise Stefanik (R-New York) -- David Fisher, a dairy farmer who serves as president of the New York Farm Bureau Rep.
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Among those was Janet Clark, a third-generation dairy farmer who runs Vision Aire Farms about 80 miles north of Milwaukee.
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Erwin Schöpges, a Walloon dairy farmer who joined the protests outside parliament, says he already faces milk prices below his production costs.
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"He met our expectations with his message, but there weren't enough hard figures," said Paul Chanvillard, a 26-year-old dairy farmer.
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Former dairy farmer and current chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes must really love wine a hell of a lot.
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Akbar's father disputes this: Akbar, he told CNN, was a dairy farmer who had bought the cows and was transporting them home.
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The heroes here include Max Yasgur, the dairy farmer who let the festival organizers use his land, which got pretty torn up.
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Here, they spend time with their new friends, from the county butcher to the town lawyer to the dairy farmer next door.
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Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) -- Les Danielson, a grain and dairy farmer and member of the Wisconsin Farmer's Union from Cadott, Wisconsin Sen.
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One of the people Florent-Claude visits is an old friend, a dairy farmer in distress, who helps organize a violent revolt.
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During his career as a dairy farmer, Mr. Lamport had named every cow on his farm, memorizing the markings on their hides.
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It's true I could have neglected to do the work or (perish the thought) lied to the dairy farmer about my progress.
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"We are being very, very cautious," said Christine Vazeille, a dairy farmer in a mountainous part of the Auvergne region in central France.
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SIMPSON, Australia — James Guy had been a dairy farmer since he was 240, and at 230, he thought he'd be preparing for retirement.
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There was "a perfect storm," said Sarah Lloyd, director of special projects for the Wisconsin Farmers Union and a family dairy farmer herself.
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I got about 80 responses to my ad, and I ended up hiring a young dairy farmer named Lisa Tanner in Washington State.
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But after weeks of internal debate with his staff and fellow lawmakers, the 103-year-old dairy-farmer-turned-congressman backed the measure.
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Tim Trotter is executive director of Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, which represents farms of all sizes in nine Midwestern states on federal dairy policy.
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Afterward, Luke Brubaker, a prominent dairy farmer from their region, mentioned the poultry transport raid in a meeting between Trump and agriculture-industry representatives.
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Oosthuizen said it would have been impossible for his father, a dairy farmer, to afford to take him all over the country to compete.
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Mr. Goplin talked about the tangle of trade and oversupply with his friend Joe Bragger, a sixth-generation dairy farmer in nearby Buffalo County.
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While teaching me how to candy grapefruit peels, Tammi explained her optimism: Todd, her dairy farmer neighbor, claimed that "Trump promised to end chemtrails".
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In the heartland of camembert production, dairy farmer Charles Breant in the Normandy village of Bermonville shared Ramos' concerns about the badge of quality.
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"It means a lot, just because I know that I'm not only making my dad, who is a dairy farmer, proud," Hinrichs, 19, told Refinery29.
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They suggested that he work as a dairy farmer, a job that would place less painful stress on his false leg and produce fewer disturbing memories.
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The rapport between MacAulay, a former dairy farmer, and Perdue, the former Georgia governor, is "comforting," said Ron Bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
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Dairy farmer Max Yasgur's allowed his dairy farm in nearby Bethel to serve as the new site, but the venue change left little time for construction.
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The lawsuit does not appear to be impeding the parody account, as "Devin Nunes' cow" continued to post on Twitter Tuesday, trolling the former dairy farmer.
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Lorraine Lewandrowski, a dairy farmer and attorney in Central New York, said a number of New York dairy farmers have been looking to Canada for advice.
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The third-generation dairy farmer is shown shoveling cow manure, which is meant to represent the product of "Washington politicians," over the course of the advertisement.
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Tim Trotter is executive director of Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, which represents nearly 800 farms of all sizes in nine Midwestern states on federal dairy policy.
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It's a gift from a cattle farmer in his Central California district and an ode to his previous career as a little-known cattle and dairy farmer.
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But on June 24, a dairy farmer in Ireland tweeted out a pic of one of his calves sporting baby pink earmuffs, and the internet went wild.
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The rapport between MacAulay, a former dairy farmer himself, and Perdue, the former Georgia governor, is "comforting," said Ron Bonnett, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture.
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" GREENLAND, N.H. — Allen Smith is a fifth-generation dairy farmer, who names some of his cows after pasta shapes and has a propensity for saying, "Heck yeah!
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In April 2017, Pehlu Khan, also a dairy farmer, was attacked by cow vigilantes while coming back from a cattle fair in the state capital of Jaipur.
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But Mr. Stein, the dairy farmer in Le Roy, said this summer's stresses have taken a toll on his children, who are taking over the family farm.
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Dairy farmer Marian Macdonald relies on CSIRO soil moisture forecasts to predict pasture growth on her 600 hectares of rolling hills where she keeps almost 300 dairy cows.
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A recent survey by Federated Farmers shows 290 percent of its dairy farmer members are experiencing pressure from banks over mortgages, compared with 000 percent six months ago.
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Dairy "should be off the table for these negotiations," David Wiens, a Manitoba dairy farmer and vice-president of Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) said of NAFTA talks.
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Senator Baldwin of Wisconsin said that one of the reasons she introduced the Dairy Pride Act was that her dairy-farmer constituents wrote to her with their concerns.
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Steve Harnish, a 37-year-old dairy farmer in Pennsylvania, told me he uses Gmail, Google Sheets, Google Keep, and WhatsApp for organizing tasks on his 200-cow farm.
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The board estimates that the average dairy farmer has a net worth of about two million Canadian dollars, one-third more than the average for all types of farms.
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" Murnane pointed out Murnane Bay, a notch on Victoria's southern coast said to be named after his grandfather, a prosperous dairy farmer: "Nasty old [expletive] of a bloke. Tom.
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"I just want to vote for a woman," said Inga Orth, 37, a dairy farmer who said she knew little about Ms. Klobuchar but was eager to learn more.
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"This year is the worst I've seen for the dairy cattle industry," said Shan Jiawu, a dairy farmer in Zhangwu, who has been in the business for over a decade.
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Kylie Jenner's discovery -- that putting milk on cereal is pretty fantastic -- was so moooooving to a California dairy farmer, he decided to pay tribute ... by naming his baby cow after her.
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THE DAIRY FARMER Gianantonio Locatelli climbed up the steel ladder and peered over the brim of a large corrugated vat, about the size of a very deep above-ground swimming pool.
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On our final morning in Normandy, we headed north across the Seine to meet Charles Bréant, a dairy farmer, cheesemaker and one of the five brothers behind Camembert Le 5 Frères.
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"He wanted to put Wisconsin back into the lead in milk production over California," said Joel Greeno, a dairy farmer and the president of the Wisconsin advocacy group Family Farm Defenders.
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An underground threat New Mexico dairy farmer Art Schaap has been milking his 1,800 cows every day for nearly a year -- and every day he dumps it all down the drain.
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Read more>>> By Jane E. Brody Early to bed, early to rise — a fine plan for a dairy farmer who has to get up long before dawn to milk the cows.
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TOP bv, a food technology service provider, has teamed with Dutch dairy farmer Matthijs Baan to develop a platform that will enable the country's dairy farmers to bottle milk from specific cows.
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"It seems like a pretty steep challenge to now resolve these issues in three days," said David Wines, a Manitoba dairy farmer and vice president of industry group Dairy Farmers of Canada.
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During the roundtable, Luke Brubaker, a dairy farmer from Pennsylvania, described how immigration agents had recently picked up half a dozen chicken catchers working for a poultry transportation company in his county.
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Even Representative David Valadao, a Republican dairy farmer in the 16st District to the west, an agrarian area where Hillary Clinton trounced Mr. Trump, drew just one competitor — a Democrat — this year.
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To illustrate this, our reporters spoke with people across the country — from a dairy farmer in Northern Ireland to a Polish software developer in London — to learn about their Brexit-related anxieties.
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Once upon a time, in a distant land known as Wisconsin, Paige Morgan (Julia Stiles), the daughter of local dairy farmer, had dreams too big for the small town that contained her.
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Even a successful Brexit, from a British perspective, could be damaging to Ireland, said Philip Donohoe, a dairy farmer and a shareholder of a company that makes cream for Baileys Irish Cream.
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ROME/MADRID (Reuters) - Italian durum wheat and dairy farmer Attilio Tocchi saw warning signs during the winter of the dramatic drought to come at his holding a mile away from the Tuscan coast.
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"They can bring in as much money as they want, but it's pretty hard to break the spirit of people that know what's inside of somebody like Devin," said Airoso, the dairy farmer.
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"In my eyes, it's one of the least harmful chemicals we use, and we will continue to use it," said Brad Kremer, a crop and dairy farmer with 3,000 acres in Pittsville, Wis.
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"The notion that immigrants are taking these jobs away from American workers is simply not true," Randy Mooney, a dairy farmer and the chair of NMPF's board, said in a 2015 NMPF press release.
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"I'm angry," says dairy farmer Mike McMahon, who owns 700 cows in upstate New York, which is now the third-largest dairy producing state and the biggest producer of greek yogurt in the country.
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A few miles out of town, past soybean fields and empty asphalt roads, Scott Ditter, a dairy farmer who sent milk from his cows to the Sartori factory that morning, defended the president's actions.
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"In the last quarter we spent A$40,000 on transport bills so we have already reached the capped limit," said Gavin Moore, a dairy farmer in Glenmore, 79 km (49 miles) south west of Sydney.
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Carlo Migli, a dairy farmer near Lodi who has 300 head of dairy cattle, has struggled to get the necessary health checks on milk samples because the nearest testing centres are outside the red zone.
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It's a hard time to be a dairy farmer in America: The nationwide decline in milk consumption and the rippling effects of the trade war with China have pushed thousands of farms out of business.
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"I'm not a big TV watcher, but my goodness, that's what you see over and over and over again," said Denise Lloyd, a 55-year-old dairy farmer from Schoharie County and a Faso volunteer.
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ARUNDEL, Maine (Reuters) - For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 19143 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought financial ruin and threatened to shut down a century-old family business.
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Some state governments turn a blind eye to vigilantes such as those who beat a (licensed) Muslim dairy farmer to death in Rajasthan last week; others have encouraged hyper-zealous "inspections", followed by closures, of slaughterhouses.
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As a fifth-generation dairy farmer who grew up on a 900 acre farm with 100 cows, Margot now runs a smaller operation with only 12 cows in order to make more premium and organic products.
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Thomas Willberg, a dairy farmer whose land abuts Airiston Helmi's headquarters on the mainland, said he was asked several times by the Russian and his associates whether he would be willing to sell his cow patch.
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Valadao had been one of only a handful of Republicans representing a majority-Hispanic district, which he kept by advocating for comprehensive immigration reform and touting his agricultural ties with his background as a dairy farmer.
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Saverio Delsante is a sixth-generation dairy farmer close to Parma, with 150 cows that produce more than 1,100 gallons of milk each day, which is about enough to make just 14 wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano.
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"This is just marketing puffery, not any true innovation that improves the actual product offered to consumers," said Randy Mooney, chairman of the National Milk Producers Federation, and a dairy farmer from Rogersville, Missouri, of Dannon's pledge.
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"While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, the increasingly common practice of labeling beverages as milk when they quite obviously are not is wrong and misleading," dairy farmer Brad Nevin said in the press release.
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ARUNDEL, Maine, March 2500 (Reuters) - For Maine dairy farmer Fred Stone, the discovery in 19143 that his cows were producing tainted milk has since brought financial ruin and threatened to shut down a century-old family business.
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Jeremy Brown a dairy farmer in the Finger Lakes region of New York, said he supported any effort to help consumers appreciate the effort that went into running a farm like his, which has about 2,900 cows.
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The lynching of Pehlu Khan, a 55-year-old dairy farmer, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan at the beginning of this month attracted a live audience of dozens and a virtual one in the millions.
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Saputo still imports proteins, but is talking with dairy farmer groups in Canada about alternatives, said Chief Executive Lino Saputo Jr. "All we need is an ability to source milk at competitive prices," he said in an interview.
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"Having the price cut at the eleventh hour is particularly disappointing, it is unprofessional," said Stuart Crosthwaite, a dairy farmer from the southern state of Victoria, who supplies Murray Goulburn and plans to slaughter some of his herd.
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HALCOTT, N.Y. — It's about 15 miles from here to a dairy testing facility in Roxbury, or about one hour and 20 minutes round trip if you know these dusty mountain back roads like Chris DiBenedetto, a dairy farmer.
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Hidden Valley Animal Adventure in Varysburg, New York, about 35 miles (56 km) east of Buffalo, will remain closed until Wednesday following the death on Sunday of Hans Boxler, a dairy farmer who opened the tourist attraction in 2006.
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"The elimination of Canada's Class 7 pricing system will level the playing field and give US farmers the opportunity to compete in a free and fair environment," said Brody Stapel, president of the Wisconsin-based Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative.
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The risk of dairy farmer suicides has become a matter of such gravity and concern in recent months that Agri-Mark has begun to mail suicide prevention letters out with milk checks it sends to farmers twice a month.
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While many farmers are Republicans and Trump supporters — and generally can get behind Trump's call to equalize the playing field — one Wisconsin dairy farmer, Roger Mehre, told Vox earlier in July that farmers in his circles are getting increasingly nervous.
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GOUDA, Netherlands (Reuters) - Surrounded by 15-kg (33 lb) wheels of cheese ready to be carted away in horse-drawn carriages, a dairy farmer in the Dutch city of Gouda faces off against a cheese trader wearing traditional wooden clogs.
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Scott Glezen, a dairy farmer from Lisle, New York, with 1,200 cattle, said that, while he appreciated that Perdue was reaching out to farmers, he worried that producers would be irreparably damaged while they waited for the trade war to end.
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"There are environmental costs of operating here and extremely high land costs, and feeds need to be brought in," said Ray Souza, a longtime dairy farmer in Turlock, California, who left the business in 2016 and now rents his dairy facility.
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In this week's installment of First-Person Shooter, we gave two disposable cameras to Margot Brooks, a dairy farmer who specializes in producing, cheese, beef, veal, and raw milk on her farm Sugar House Creamery in Upper Jay, New York.
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About three-quarters of the land at Dos Rios was owned by a dairy farmer who was tired of dealing with flooding and sold it in 2012 to River Partners, with various state and federal agencies financing the $21.8 million cost.
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In Mr. Morgan's case, his wife was able to dissuade him from taking such a final step and instead seek the counsel of two FarmNet consultants — Judy Flint, a social worker, and Dewey Hakes, a financial consultant and former dairy farmer.
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In 2010, his neighbor, Dean Pierson, 59, a dairy farmer, shot all 51 of his milking cows and then turned the weapon on himself, leaving suicide notes on cow tag cards stating that he was "overwhelmed" by personal and financial issues.
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GOUDA, Netherlands, April 19 (Reuters) - Surrounded by 15-kg (33 lb) wheels of cheese ready to be carted away in horse-drawn carriages, a dairy farmer in the Dutch city of Gouda faces off against a cheese trader wearing traditional wooden clogs.
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Chris Pollack, a dairy farmer from Wisconsin which saw hundreds of milk producers go out of business last year, says it is getting harder for the industry to embrace the administration's focus on long-term gains targeted from the China trade standoff.
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Some tried jumping into politics as Democratic candidates this year, but had little success: Fifth-generation Pennsylvania dairy farmer Denny Wolff lost his fight for a Congressional seat, as did Mississippi poultry farmer Michael Evans - who is pro-life, pro-gun and anti-tariffs.
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Mike Eby, Chairman of the National Dairy Producers Organization and a seventh-generation dairy farmer, was forced to sell his herd of 60 dairy cows two years ago because he, like many others, couldn't compete with corporate agriculture and the continuing decline in milk prices.
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Whether it is the almond grower in California, the dairy farmer in Wisconsin, the autoworker in Michigan, the small business owners in North Dakota, or the oil and gas producers in New Mexico, the USMCA will improve the lives of hardworking Americans and their families.
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Palle Borgstrom, a dairy farmer who lives north of Gothenburg, said dry weather since early May and higher temperatures since then had stunted the growth of silage to feed cattle for the winter, meaning that some farmers would have to slaughter more livestock than usual.
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Marie-Pier Vincent, a fourth-generation Quebec dairy farmer, worries it will be even harder to make ends meet if Canada allows more tariff-free imports of milk products from the United States under a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement.
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SYDNEY, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Australia's largest milk processor Murray Goulburn said on Thursday it would take a one-off sum of A$81.8 million ($62.54 million) from the profit pool of its publicly traded MG Unit Trust to allow it to help its struggling dairy farmer members.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution's failure to make its case despite videos of a crowd beating him in the street.
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Though Noe, an undocumented dairy farmer in West Texas, has qualified for a green card since he married a US citizen 11 years ago, he never applied—status as a legal resident would have been nice but didn't seem like it would be worth the expense.
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Eavis is respected and adored by millions for being Britain's most mighty and prolific merrymaker (and a pretty masterful dairy farmer), but he's also a notoriously difficult and rare creature to find—I guess that's what happens when the country's largest cultural event happens in your back garden.
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And yet, given a few moments to think and some creativity, we both realized that dairy farming is a perfect laboratory for everything from biology to math, chemistry to geometry, history to government; all of these subjects are relevant and important in the life of a dairy farmer.
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After a local dairy farmer took his life in January, Agri-Mark, a large cooperative that bought milk from the farmer, sent its 550 members in the state a list of suicide and mental health hotlines — along with the news that milk prices would drop even lower this year.
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"We'll sit here for many more nights if we have to but this has got to stop and we have to start getting paid for our produce," said Nicholas Hughes, a 53-year-old dairy farmer from Moylough in County Galway who sat in his tractor all night without sleep.
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In February, activists circulated footage of a dairy farmer in the state of Western Australia firing his shotgun into the air while they were in a car filming his property, although the gun is pointed away from the car and the farmer has said he did not know they were there.
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Much more fun are the sections held up by Korkki's own anxieties, as when she hires a dairy farmer in Washington State to call her every morning and nag her to work, or when she decides — not altogether intuitively — that it's time to make her dating life part of her Big Thing.
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The projects featured in this section offer ways to restore the cycle—used coffee grounds from the V&A's café make for nutritious soil beds, which grow mushrooms then used in café meals; an Italian dairy farmer turns the 150,000kg of manure produced every day by his 3,500 cows into a terracotta-like material for bricks, tiles and tableware.
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Then there's Katie Porter, the U.S. representative for California's 45th District who has become Wall Street's worst nightmare; Kevin Esvelt, the scientist bringing morality to gene editing; Nimai Pandit, the dairy farmer who wants to sell "ethical milk" that he's betting even vegans will drink; and Momentum, the nonprofit that is training members of every movement you're reading about these days.
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Workers talked about their experiences, including a dairy farmer who cannot plan for the future because the price paid for his milk has been held hostage; a customs broker cautiously preparing for a big expansion of business, but fearful of making wrong call; and two building cleaners whose livelihood has been rocked by outsourcing and dread the loss of job protections.
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The dairy farmer in this speck of a town about 140 miles north of New York City was one of the first beneficiaries of an ambitious initiative to extend broadband to every household in the state by 603 — no matter how rural or far-flung the address — which would make New York the first state to reach that high-speed internet milestone.
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Try convincing a vineyard owner that his extremely valuable wine grapes can be tended by anyone without specialized skills or experience; a dairy farmer that his cows can be properly medicated by an unskilled worker; the owner of a race horse worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that any native-born worker off the street can protect his investment; the roofing contractor whose customers expect him to complete that difficult, dangerous job in record time with zero defects.
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There are 2 reasons behind that, first, Canadian dairy farmers who has great political influence may against any changes and are unhappy to lost any protection, there are lobby group said that Canada has already made concession to foreign importers after Canada reached the Economy and Trade Agreement with EU, causing Canadian dairy farmer lost 5% home market shares, which worth around $17bn, so a further potential compromise to US importers will definitely trigger opposition from local economy groups.
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I wrote columns about a county fair bake-off in Michigan, and two bullets fired into the home of a black mayor in Louisiana; the economic struggles of a dairy farmer in Northern California, and a dying mobster in Rhode Island who gave up an old murder's secret; the dreams of migrant workers in Minnesota, and a gathering in Wisconsin of some retired burlesque queens who taught me how to perform a proper bump-and-grind.
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A dairy farmer cannot plan for the future because the price paid for his milk has been held hostage by Brexit; a customs broker is cautiously preparing for a big expansion of business, but fearful if he makes the wrong call; a tech executive in London whose payroll relies on European Union workers wonders how she will fill her job vacancies; and two building cleaners, whose livelihood has been rocked by outsourcing, dread the loss of job protections built on rules from the Continent.
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