Recent News
The Seattle Times: Heat was contributing factor in July death of Yakima Valley farmworker- August 3, 2021 PBS News Hour: Worsening wildfires in California’s wine country threaten low-wage farm workers
- July 31, 2021 Statesman Journal: With new protections in place, farmworkers face another heat wave
- July 28, 2021 Politico: Western heatwave highlights need for better farmworker protections
- July 22, 2021 The Daily Kos: Padilla: ‘Fundamentally wrong’ to deem undocumented workers essential yet deny them protections
- July 21, 2021 IL Senator Dick Durbin: Durbin Questions Witnesses At Hearing On Need For Path To Citizenship For Immigrant Farmworkers
- July 21, 2021 UFW: Congress Has the Chance Right Now to Pass a Pathway to Citizenship for Farm Workers
- July 20, 2021 Fresh Fruit Portal: U.S. states struggle with more extreme heat as UFW urges more protections
- July 17, 2021 ABC 7 Eyewitness News: Farmworkers seek more legal protections amid rising danger from heat
- July 16, 2021 The Guardian: ‘We’re not animals, we’re human beings’: US farm workers labor in deadly heat with few protections
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