United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Heat News
- 06/15/2022 Spokane Public Radio: Extreme heat and smoke protections for workers in place until September
- 06/12/2022 The Seattle Times: New heat rules bring welcome relief to outdoor workers
- 06/12/2022 Your Central Valley: Farmworkers grapple with extreme heat in the Central Valley
- 06/11/2022 Manteca Bulletin: Think it is hot? Ask a farm worker
- 06/09/2022 E&E News: Here’s how OSHA is protecting workers from heat this summer
- 06/09/2022 KREM 2: Washington releases emergency rules expanding protections for outdoor workers during wildfire smoke, heat
- 06/07/2022 NBC Right Now: Labor and Industries creates rules to protect outdoor workers through hot and smokey conditions
- 06/06/2022 The Stand: UFW: State’s new heat protections ‘strong’
- 06/06/2022 Washington State Issues Emergency Heat Standards
- 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