United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Corona Virus News
- 04/25/2020 Lincoln Journal Star: Is protecting farmworkers a national security issue? California farmers say yes
- 04/25/2020 Idaho News: 1/2 of the farm workers at a Washington orchard test positive for COVID-19
- 04/24/2020 Ventura County Star: Espinosa: COVID-19 impacts most vulnerable
- 04/24/2020 The Spokesman-Review: Tests of workers at Central Washington orchard finds dozens of COVID-19 cases without symptoms
- 04/24/2020 Fibre2Frashion.com: CVRD coalition donates masks to farm workers
- 04/23/2020 CNN: Trouble in farm country because of Covid-19
- 04/23/2020 WA issues emergency rules on farm worker housing following lawsuit from farm worker unions
- 04/23/2020 Latin Post: Appreciation Caravan: Migrant Farmworkers in California Receive Heartwarming Tribute
- 04/23/2020 Voices of Monterey Bay: For farmworkers in Monterey County, ‘shelter-in-place” is nearly ‘business-as-usual’
- 04/23/2020 GreenBiz: Farmworkers are deemed ‘essential’ but are not protected from COVID-19
- 04/22/2020 CGTN America: COVID-19: Migrant farmworkers ‘essential’ but unsafe in U.S.
- 04/22/2020 The Fern: Farmworkers will be exempt from immigration restrictions
- 04/22/2020 AG Wired: Farm Workers Not Included in Immigration Order
- 04/22/2020 World Central Kitchen & farm worker movement distribute meals for farm worker families
- 04/21/2020 NBC 7 San Diego: Farm Workers Not Impacted By Trump’s Executive Immigration Order: CA Farm Bureau
- 04/21/2020 The Sun: Migrant farmworkers and healthcare workers ‘will be exempt from Trump’s immigration ban’
- 04/21/2020 NBC Bay Area: Immigration Advocates Slam President’s Plan to Suspend Immigration to the U.S.
- 04/20/2020 Cronkite News: Dairy farmers forced to adjust their practices during COVID-19 pandemic
- 04/20/2020 City Limits: Undocumented, Essential and Sick: COVID-19 Comes to the Farm
- 04/20/2020 Latin Post: US Recognizes the Significant Contributions of Migrant Farm Workers in the Country
- 04/20/2020 Human Rights Watch: Heat Wave Hits Florida – and Its Unprotected Farmworkers
- 04/20/2020 MediaFile: Long Time No See #09 – Feeding America During a Pandemic
- 04/20/2020 PBS NewsHour: How the COVID-19 pandemic is sending American agriculture into chaos
- 04/20/2020 Yakima Herald: Yakima Health District reports 70 COVID cases in agriculture industry
- 04/20/2020 CA Department of Industrial Relations: FAQs on Executive Order Concerning Supplemental Paid Sick Leave for Food Sector Workers at Companies with 500 or More Employees