United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Corona Virus News
- 10/13/2020 The Counter: Advocates say seasonal farm workers are forced onto high-cost, low-nutrition employer-run meal plans
- 10/13/2020 Rural Migration News: Covid-19 and Farm Labor after 6 Months
- 10/12/2020 Fox KTVU: California farmworkers endure harsh conditions, wildfires and the coronavirus
- 10/12/2020 The Fern: Advocates fear canceling Farm Labor Survey is first step in gutting guest farmworker protections
- 10/12/2020 Illinois Newsroom: ‘Either I Risk It All Or Nothing At All’: Migrant Workers’ Need To Work Outweighs COVID-19 Concerns
- 10/12/2020 NBC News: Who should get America’s Covid-19 vaccine first?
- 10/12/2020 Latin Post: Latino Immigrant Workers Continue to Die on the Job, Study Says
- 10/09/2020 Post Register: Food project connects Latino farmers, farmworkers
- 10/09/2020 KQED: Immigrant Workers Power Napa Valley’s Economy – But Fires and COVID-19 Are Destroying Jobs
- 10/09/2020 Lancaster Farming: New Bill Would Allow Farmworkers to Drive in Pennsylvania
- 10/09/2020 CBS12 News: Palm Beach County leaders ask for rapid COVID-19 tests for farmworkers
- 10/09/2020 CAL Matters: California work safety agency’s response to COVID complaints: letters, not inspections
- 10/08/2020 Daily Yonder: ‘Treated as Expendable’: Immigrant Farmworkers Fall Through Healthcare System Gaps in the Rural South
- 10/08/2020 Santa Barbara Independent: Santa Barbara County Strengthens COVID Protocols at Farmworker Housing After Outbreaks
- 10/08/2020 Herald and News: 54 strawberry harvest workers test positive; in quarantine in Klamath County
- 10/07/2020 Napa Valley Register: With harvest amid fire and smoke, how should Napa Valley protect its farmworkers?
- 10/07/2020 The Progressive Pulse: Farmworkers’ wages threatened by Trump administration’s inaction
- 10/07/2020 WSAV NBC: Essential Hispanic agricultural workers tackle new challenges getting food to your table
- 10/07/2020 Mountain Times: 27 farm workers test positive
- 10/07/2020 The Washington Post: In the U.S., states — not science — decide what counts as a coronavirus outbreak
- 10/06/2020 NBC News: Latino workers are at increased risk of dying on the job, new report says
- 10/06/2020 Crosscut: During wildfires, West Coast farmworkers forced to put harvest over health
- 10/06/2020 Here And Now: Migrant Farmworkers Face Twin Risks: Wildfires And COVID-19
- 10/06/2020 Investigate West: Farmworkers forced to put harvest over health during wildfires
- 10/06/2020 ABC10: New program provides free hotel rooms for farm workers testing positive for Covid-19