Senate vote imminent: Act to save highest-paying domestic farm jobs
Heat News
- 06/03/2022 The Stranger: A Majority of U.S. Workers Now Support Unions
- 06/03/2022 The Seattle Times: WA rolls out emergency heat protections for outdoor workers: ‘These new rules are strong’
- 06/01/2022 WA State Department of Labor & Industries: Washington increases heat, wildfire smoke protections for outdoor workers this summer
- 06/01/2022 NBC Right Now: Employers must monitor temperature and air quality in new L&I rules
- 06/01/2022 The Bakersfield Californian: Activists renew attention on farmworkers’ heat illness risks
- 05/26/2022 Sonoma Index-Tribune: Faces of the Climate Crisis: Sonoma’s farworkers
- 05/25/2022 YourCentralValley.com: Outdoor workers try to stay cool through Central Valley heat
- 05/20/2022 San Francisco Chronicle: Hundreds of Sonoma farmworkers may have been exposed to toxic smoke during 2020 wildfires
- 05/12/2022 Civil Eats: Oregon Adopts Nation’s Strongest Farmworker Protections for Heat and Wildfire Smoke
- 05/12/2022 Yale Environmental 360: Oregon Adopts Strongest Worker Protections in U.S. Against Heat and Wildfire Smoke
- 05/12/2022 Daily Kos: ‘This is a time for drastic action’: California proposal would aid farmworkers amid severe drought
- 05/12/2022 Idaho Capital Sun: Oregon adopting rules to protect workers from excessive heat and wildfire smoke
- 05/11/2022 Salem Reporter: Oregon adopting rules to protect workers from excessive heat and wildfire smoke
- 05/11/2022 KLCC: Oregon adopts heat and smoke rules for workers
- 05/11/2022 Statesman Journal: Oregon establishes rules to protect outdoor workers from heat, wildfire smoke
- 05/11/2022 Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon adopting rules to protect workers from excessive heat and wildfire smoke
- 05/11/2022 NBC 16 KMTR: Oregon OSHA adopts rules protecting workers from high heat, wildfire smoke
- 05/02/2022 Popular Science: Farm workers exposed to climate change effects are demanding protections
- 04/29/2022 Civil Eats: $1,000 a Month for Farmworkers? Proposed Payments Aim to Help Amid Drought
- 04/28/2022 The Runner: UC Irvine professor explains dangers of wildfires for farmworkers
- 04/28/2022 RFD-TV: California farmworkers might receive payments for their work during the ongoing drought
- 04/26/2022 Record Searchlight: California farmworkers could get $1,000 cash a month help under drought relief proposal
- 04/26/2022 Los Angeles Times: California bill would pay farmworkers $1,000 a month to help endure drought, climate crisis
- 04/26/2022 ABC 30 Fresno: Proposed state senate bill would send relief checks to farmworkers
- 04/26/2022 Hastings Tribune: California bill would pay farmworkers $1,000 a month to help endure drought, climate crisis