Recent News
NEWS FROM THE U.S. CONGRESS Udall, Neguse Introduce Landmark Pesticide Reform to Protect Children, Farmworkers and Consumers from Toxic Pesticides:- August 2, 2020 NPR: Washington Farmworkers Ask State Supreme Court For Overtime Pay
- July 31, 2020 ABC 7 News: Stanford student raises awareness for farm worker wages after getting $7 for picking 2 gallons of blueberries
- July 29, 2020 PRI The World: Farmworkers are getting coronavirus. They face retaliation for demanding safe conditions.
- July 28, 2020 Courthouse News Service: Farmworkers Lobby Ninth Circuit to Force Ban on Pesticide That’s Toxic to Children
- July 28, 2020 KGET: UFW files charges against Primex Farms for allegedly firing employees who said company wasn’t protecting them from COVID-19
- July 27, 2020 NBC Bay Area: Union Claims Unsafe Coronavirus Conditions for Farm Workers
- July 27, 2020 After a death and quarter of work force infected by COVID-19, Primex letting go workers who complained & turned to UFW
- July 27, 2020 Remembering Richard Chavez on 9th anniversary of his passing (Nov 12, 1929-July 27, 2011)
- July 26, 2020 CNBC: Advocates push for more farmworker protections as coronavirus cases surge
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CoronaVirus- Immigration: Farm Workforce Modernization Act
- National Heat Regs
- Overtime: Fairness for Farm Workers Act
- Darigold
- CA Heat Regs Settlement with state will help prevent heat deaths
- CA Wild Fires
- CA Overtime (AB 1066) 2016 Learn about CA's AB1066, “The Phase-In Overtime for Agricultural Workers Act of 2016.”
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Action Center
Donate to help farm workers say no to wage cuts- TAKE ACTION: Nearly 100 Primex Farms workers have gotten COVID and workers say the company is still failing to protect them
- Farm workers are getting sick from COVID-19 & it’s past time to protect them
- ACT NOW: New heat risk for farm workers during COVID-19
- Tell your Senators to support the HEROES Act
- Another way you can help farm workers during COVID-19
- Join our drive to provide masks for farm workers during COVID-19
- Stop the Trump admin from lowering farm worker wages during COVID-19
- Californians: The farm workers who feed us need paid leave to prevent outbreaks. Please act now!
- Farmworkers left out of COVID19 aid. Email your congress member now
- Please donate: You can’t pick strawberries working remotely.
- You would not believe what this Hawaii “Democratic” Congressmember just did!
- Even in the bitter cold, farm workers are working
- Sign the Premiere Raspberry workers’ petition to the ALRB
- EPA proposes weakening pesticide drift protection
- Download your FREE 2020 UFW Calendar
- Please make your New Year’s resolution to help farm workers
- Celebrate the Holidays with UFW union products! Download list here
- Ask your Congressmember to support new national heat regulation bill
- Tell your Congressional reps farm workers deserve overtime