Senate vote imminent: Act to save highest-paying domestic farm jobs
News Coverage
- 11/27/2023 Maine Public: Committee to discuss wages for Maine farmworkers
- 11/24/2023 The Salinas Californian: From the fields to the table: Giving thanks to farmworkers
- 11/24/2023 New York Daily News: Farmworkers inch toward equality: N.Y. must defend the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act in federal court
- 11/22/2023 MSNBC Reports: Thanking the migrant farm workers across our country
- 11/21/2023 America’s Voice: Thanksgiving Is A Time To Thank The Workers Who Feed Us – And An Opportunity To Welcome Families Seeking New Lives Here
- 11/20/2023 The Bakersfield Californian: JOSE GASPAR: Farmworker lives are not disposable, but are treated as such
- 11/17/2023 NC Newsline: Feds slap $139K fine on NC employers for exploiting farmworkers
- 11/16/2023 U.S. Department of Labor: US Department of Labor fines North Carolina employers $139K after they shortchanged farmworkers; seized passports, visas to intimidate them
- 11/14/2023 America’s Voice: “I Was Tired Of The Injustice”: California Farmworkers Score Major Union Win
- 11/12/2023 The Globe and Mail: Mushroom-farm workers call for collective-bargaining rights in Washington
- 11/10/2023 KCRA 3: Farm workers win first election to unionize under new California law
- 11/09/2023 CAL Matters: UFW wins first farmworker union vote under new California law
- 11/09/2023 Sacramento Bee: UFW wins first California union vote in six years. Is more farmworker organizing coming?
- 11/06/2023 The Washington Post: This county could create the strictest workplace heat rules in the U.S.
- 11/06/2023 AZ Family: 21 people hospitalized after bus carrying farmworkers flips over near Yuma
- 11/03/2023 Los Angeles Times: She was killed in a carrot field. With her body nearby, workers say, they were told to keep picking
- 10/31/2023 KGET: United Farm Workers to honor those who served in the fields on Day of the Dead
- 10/21/2023 Los Angeles Times: Coachella Valley farmworkers struggle after crops were heavily damaged by Tropical Storm Hilary
- 10/19/2023 Grist: Workers are dying from extreme heat. Why aren’t there laws to protect them?Grist:
- 10/19/2023 The Guardian: ‘You should be able to have a water break’: US workers fight for extreme-heat rules
- 10/15/2023 Yakima Herald-Republic: Historic showing by Latino candidates in Sunnyside elections could increase voter engagement
- 10/13/2023 Stop AAPI Hate: Commemorating the legacy of cross-racial solidarity between Filipino and Mexican American farmworkers
- 10/12/2023 Eater: Nighttime Harvests Can Protect Farmworkers from Blistering Heat, but They Bring New Risks
- 10/05/2023 Olean Times Herald: NY farm owners fight labor law in federal court
- 10/04/2023 Times Union: Farm owners fighting labor law in federal court in latest move