United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Corona Virus News
- 12/12/2020 Los Angeles Times: New coronavirus outbreaks reported at Foster Farms poultry processing plants
- 12/11/2020 Odyssey Online: Working For The Essentials
- 12/11/2020 NBC News: Farmworkers, firefighters and flight attendants jockey for vaccine priority
- 12/10/2020 The Sacramento Bee: ‘We have failed’: How COVID-19 affects California’s 800,000 farmworkers
- 12/10/2020 Idaho News 6: Local organization makes hand sanitizers for farmworkers
- 12/10/2020 Yakima Herald: Letter: Help keep the community safe — donate masks to the United Farm Workers
- 12/10/2020 The Sacramento Bee: After health care workers, which essential employees in California will get the COVID-19 vaccine?
- 12/09/2020 The Desert Review: Assemblymen Garcia and Rivas pass bill putting farmworkers to front of Covid-19 vaccine line
- 12/09/2020 KEYT: Nonprofit organizes blanket drive for Ventura County farmworker community
- 12/09/2020 WUSF Public Media: Long Faced With Sub-Standard Conditions, Farm Workers Deal With Added Challenges During A Pandemic
- 12/08/2020 The New York Times: We Need a Secretary of Food
- 12/08/2020 The Packer: The essential pieces of protecting ag workers
- 12/08/2020 Crosscut: Art Pulse: A Yakima artist shows why farmworkers are essential
- 12/08/2020 KCET: Farmworkers are both #AlwaysEssential and Perpetually Disposable: How Can We Change All That?
- 12/08/2020 Environmental Working Group: 6 Ways the Biden Administration Should Protect Food and Farm Workers From Covid-19
- 12/06/2020 Monroe News: Pandemic is causing food shortages
- 12/05/2020 Capital Public Radio News: Deep Distrust: Why Few Farmworkers Show Up For COVID-19 Testing
- 12/03/2020 YubaNet: California farmworkers hit hard by COVID-19, study finds
- 12/02/2020 Berkeley News: California farmworkers hit hard by COVID-19, study finds
- 12/02/2020 The Guardian: Covid and California’s farmworkers: study lays bare disproportionate risks
- 12/02/2020 CBS 13 Sacramento: Free Hotel For Positive COVID-19 Test?
- 12/01/2020 Santa Cruz Sentinel: Letter | Gratitude for food suppliers and farm workers
- 12/01/2020 Marie Claire: You Can’t Pick Produce on Zoom
- 12/01/2020 Fresno Bee: Who gets the COVID-19 vaccine first in Fresno? Pressure mounts to focus on this group
- 11/30/2020 CNN: Radio hosts were among the first who could explain Covid to indigenous Mexican farmworkers in US