United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Corona Virus News
- 04/03/2020 Resilience: COVID 19 and Our Food Supply
- 04/03/2020 Streetsblog San Francisco: Cesar Chavez Day: Honoring Those Who Feed Us, Even Through a Pandemic
- 04/03/2020 KQED: The Big Challenge of Being an ‘Essential’ Worker in a Global Pandemic
- 04/02/2020 Beyond Pesticides: Farmworkers at High Risk During Coronavirus Pandemic
- 04/02/2020 KGBT-TV: Congressman Gonzalez praises farmworkers during COVID-19 pandemic
- 04/02/2020 ColorLines: Farmworkers Are Essential, Yet Remain Unprotected
- 04/02/2020 NBCNews: Farmworkers ‘harvesting America’s food supply’ amid coronavirus pandemic fight for safety
- 04/02/2020 San Jose Spotlight: San Jose legislator pushes to protect farmworkers during COVID-19 crisis
- 04/02/2020 KEYT: Ventura County provides farmworkers with information on coronavirus
- 04/02/2020 New York Times: Farmworkers, Mostly Undocumented, Become ‘Essential’ During Pandemic
- 04/01/2020 The American Prospect: America’s Farmworkers—Now ‘Essential,’ but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits
- 04/01/2020 WMFE: They’re Considered Essential, But Some Undocumented Workers in Central Florida Won’t Get a Stimulus Check
- 04/01/2020 Radio La Primerisima: Mayoría de inmigrantes fuera del paquete de estímulo en EEUU
- 04/01/2020 Chicago Tribune: Agricultores en EEUU, los más vulnerables ante coronavirus
- 04/01/2020 Los Angeles Times: Farmworkers face coronavirus risk: ‘You can’t pick strawberries over Zoom’
- 04/01/2020 KSBW The Central Coast: Unions push for more precautions, easier sick pay for farm workers during pandemic
- 04/01/2020 Quartz: Covid-19 is about to reach US farms in a major test for food supply chains
- 03/31/2020 San Jose Spotlight: Kalra: Farmworkers deserve workplace protections too
- 03/31/2020 The Guardian: California’s farm workers pick America’s essential produce – unprotected from coronavirus
- 03/31/2020 Black Star Network: America’s Voice: Immigrants Essential in COVID-19 Fight
- 03/31/2020 NBC News: On César Chávez Day, Biden calls for coronavirus protections for farmworkers
- 03/31/2020 Fox 11 Los Angeles: Farmworkers on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis
- 03/31/2020 CapRadio: COVID-19 And Food: California Should Have Enough, Some Farms Struggle While Others Thrive, Farmworker Fears
- 03/31/2020 Mercury News: Photos: On Cesar Chavez Day, California farmworkers demand coronavirus aid
- 03/31/2020 Forbes: Grocers Are Offering Coronavirus Hazard Pay. If Most Farms And Slaughterhouses Don’t Follow, A Far Bigger Problem Lurks.