Author: Jorge Orrantia
- 01/11/2021 US Senate Committee of Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry: Ranking Member Stabenow Leads Advocates in Urging USDA to Prioritize Protections for Food Workers
- 01/11/2021 WLRN 91.3FM: Coronavirus Live Updates: Farmworker Community In Palm Beach County Demands COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization
- 01/11/2021 The Nation: Housing Is a Right. During a Pandemic, It’s Also a Fight.
- 01/08/2021 Valley Voice: Tulare County supes sign on to letter supporting vaccines for farmworkers
- 01/08/2021 Yakima Herald-Republic: Hearing on farmworker wages pushed to next month
- 01/08/2021 NBC 29: Food and Farm workers in Virginia are next in line for COVID-19 vaccine
- 01/07/2021 Naples Daily News: What is Florida’s plan for vaccinating thousands of farmworkers? It’s unclear
- 01/06/2021 eFeedLink: Foster Farms faces fresh scrutiny following latest COVID-19 death of facility worker
- 01/06/2021 High Country News: California farmworkers aren’t staying in free quarantine hotel rooms
- 01/06/2021 NBC2 News: Immokalee farmworkers fight for COVID-19 vaccine
- 01/06/2021 Visalia Times-Delta: Tulare County leaders push for farmworkers to receive COVID-19 vaccine priority
- 01/06/2021 AgNet West: H-2A Wage Freeze Blocked by Federal Judge Ruling
- 01/05/2021 Market Watch: ‘We forget about them as being essential workers.’ COVID-19 has made farm workers even more vulnerable — and created momentum to protect them
- 01/04/2021 The Bakersfield Californian: Ag employers target state’s new COVID-19 emergency rules
- 01/04/2021 California Lutheran University: Caring for essential workers
- 01/04/2021 Beyond Pesticides: Federal Court Blocks EPA from Weakening Farmworker Protections
- 01/04/2021 The Desert Sun: Riverside County allocates another $500K for farmworkers with COVID-19. ‘The need is still higher’
- 01/02/2021 The Bakersfield Californian: State issues $77,500 in fines in aftermath of outbreak at Primex nut plant in Wasco
- 01/02/2021 Auburn Citizen: NY wage board recommends delay on farmworker overtime changes
- 01/02/2021 Albany Times Union: Farm worker OT recommendation sparks reactions
- 01/01/2021 Newsday: Panel won’t recommend OT changes for NY farmworkers, citing recession
- 01/01/2021 New York Daily News: Bitter harvest: Farm workers again left out in the cold by state Wage Board refusing them overtime
- 01/01/2021 The Sacramento Bee: New California workplace laws for 2021 tackle COVID outbreaks, family leave, gender pay gap
- 01/01/2021 NNY360: Farm Wage Board delays lowering 60-hour overtime threshold for farm workers
- 01/01/2021 The Hill: Twelfth worker at California poultry company dies of COVID-19