United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Heat News
- 03/31/2021 ABC 7 News: ‘I feel secure now’: Santa Clara County vaccinates farm workers on Cesar Chavez Day
- 03/30/2021 The Counter: Climate change has direct negative impacts on farmworker health
- 03/26/2021 UFW Foundation & United Farm Workers applaud bill protecting all U.S. farm and other workers from heat
- 02/25/2021 Agri-Pulse: Farmworkers, climate and wildfires are the focus of new legislation in California
- 01/26/2021 WRLN: In Florida, Worsening Heat Puts More People At Risk
- 01/19/2021 Orlando Sentinel: In Florida, worsening heat puts more people at risk
- 12/15/2020 CAP Radio: Farmworkers Need Stockpile of N-95s For Wildfire Season, California Lawmakers Say
- 12/09/2020 Cal Matters: New bill pushes California to stock, distribute masks to farmworkers during wildfires
- 12/01/2020 Mail Tribune: Local farm workers get housing help after Almeda fire
- 11/18/2020 Agri-Pulse: More work needed to protect farmworkers from heat stress
- 10/25/2020 StarNews Online: ‘Your body can’t handle the work’: They make a living outside in dangerous North Carolina heat
- 10/23/2020 Capital Press: Washington to write rule on working in smoky air
- 10/20/2020 The Charlotte Observer: With no AC where they sleep, NC farmworkers risk the heat even after the sun goes down
- 10/20/2020 The Charlotte Observer: They make a living outside in dangerous NC heat. ‘Your body can’t handle the work.’
- 10/18/2020 Raleigh News & Observer: NC farmworkers risk the heat even after the sun goes down with no AC where they sleep
- 10/06/2020 Crosscut: During wildfires, West Coast farmworkers forced to put harvest over health
- 10/06/2020 Here And Now: Migrant Farmworkers Face Twin Risks: Wildfires And COVID-19
- 10/03/2020 Sierra Sun Times: U.S. Senators Kamala D. Harris and Sherrod Brown Introduce Heat Stress Legislation to Protect Workers
- 10/01/2020 Harris bill to protect all U.S. farm & other workers from heat
- 10/01/2020 News Advisory from Senator Harris: Harris, Brown Introduce Heat Stress Legislation to Protect Workers
- 10/01/2020 Ask your Senators to support new national heat regulation bill
- 09/29/2020 KIMA CBS 29: Union demands state do more to protect workers specifically from wildfire smoke
- 09/29/2020 Prescott News: Heat, smoke, pandemic: Dangers multiply for farmworkers in 2020
- 09/28/2020 RFD TV: California needs masks to protect farm workers and to stay safe during wildfires
- 09/28/2020 Cronkite News: Heat, smoke, pandemic: Dangers multiply for farmworkers in 2020