United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Corona Virus News
- 09/16/2020 Fresh Food Portal: Wildfires make dangerous air for farmworkers
- 09/16/2020 Marketplace: A shortage of masks and air purifiers makes wildfires more dangerous
- 09/16/2020 The Desert Review: Assemblymembers and farmworker advocates call on governor to sign the California Farmworker COVID-19 Relief Package
- 09/16/2020 Bradenton Herald: Washington farms given masks for workers to combat smoke
- 09/16/2020 Eater Portland: Willamette Valley Vineyard Workers Are Picking Grapes in Hazardous Air
- 09/16/2020 The Counter: I’m a farm worker in Washington state, picking apples during the wildfires. All I have is a cloth mask to protect myself.
- 09/16/2020 NBC Palm Springs: New program launches aimed at protecting farm workers
- 09/15/2020 Type Investigations: The Immokalee Way: Protecting Farmworkers Amid a Pandemic
- 09/15/2020 The New Republic: American’s Food Supply Chain Was Already Deadly. Then Came the Wildfires.
- 09/15/2020 Southeast AG Net: FDACS Launches COVID-19 Farmworker Safety Video Series as Harvest Season Begins
- 09/15/2020 Environmental Working Group: Time Is Running Out to Help Hungry Families and Food and Farm Workers
- 09/15/2020 WAMU 88.5: Wildfires Make Dangerous Air For Farmworkers: ‘It’s Like You Can’t Breathe’
- 09/15/2020 Marketplace: As wildfires continue, air quality impacts farmworkers — masks requirements vary
- 09/15/2020 Skagit Valley Herald: Farms receive respiratory masks to protect workers from smoke
- 09/14/2020 Deli Market News: Tillamook and Eva Longoria Partner To Say Thank You To Farmers Everywhere
- 09/14/2020 Norwalk Reflector: ‘Crisis within a crisis:’ Already endangered by COVID-19, farms and farmworkers face new threat from wildfires
- 09/14/2020 Democracy Now! Pandemic, Wildfires & Heat Wave: Undocumented Farmworkers Face “Triple Threat” as West Coast Burns
- 09/14/2020 Centralia Chronicle: Already Endangered by COVID-19, Washington Farms and Farmworkers Face New Threat From Wildfires
- 09/14/2020 NPR: Wildfires Make Dangerous Air For Farmworkers: ‘It’s Like You Can’t Breathe’
- 09/14/2020 Crosscut: Migrant workers leave WA farms, risking poverty instead of coronavirus
- 09/13/2020 Santa Barbara News-Press: A growing concern
- 09/13/2020 CAL Matters: California farmworkers say they didn’t get masks during wildfires
- 09/12/2020 Statesman Journal: COVID-19 and now wildfire smoke, vineyard workers vulnerable as grape harvests push on
- 09/12/2020 Bloomberg: Covid Is Clobbering America’s Farm Workers
- 09/11/2020 Grist: How California can recover from wildfires without leaving its most vulnerable behind