United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Heat News
- 07/16/2019 Sacramento Bee: As temperatures climb in California and nationwide, a new push aims to keep workers safe
- 07/16/2019 U.S. News: s Temperatures Climb, a Push to Keep Workers Safe
- 07/16/2019 Comstock’s Magazine: Lawmakers Respond to Increasing Temperatures With New Worker Safety Push
- 07/15/2019 Univision: Encuentran muerto a trabajador agrícola mientras limpiaba viñedos en un campo de Kerman
- 07/15/2019 USA Today: As temperatures climb, there’s a new federal push to keep workers safe
- 07/12/2019 ABC Weather: Federal bill would protect workers from heat-related illnesses
- 07/10/2019 AZ Central: Rep. Raúl Grijalva seeks limits on heat exposure while on the job
- 07/10/2019 AZ Central:Rep. Raúl Grijalva seeks limits on heat exposure while on the job
- 07/10/2019 House Bill to Give All U.S. Workers Protections from Heat Death & Illness that California first issued in 2005
- 07/09/2019 Ask your Congressmember to support new national heat regulation bill
- 07/09/2019 Press Conference: House to Introduce Legislation Protecting Workers From Heat
- 06/20/2019 Talk Poverty.org: Heat Is Now the Deadliest Threat to Farmworkers. Only Two States Protect Them From It.
- 06/14/2019 Los Angeles Times: Essential California: Using social media to make sure farmworkers know their rights
- 06/13/2019 The New Food Economy: In California, farm workers have a right to shade
- 05/30/2019 Union of Concerned Scientists: It’s National Heat Awareness Day—Let’s Protect Farmworkers from Extreme Heat
- 05/16/2019 TucsonSentinel.com: Worker advocates burned up over lack of federal heat protections
- 05/16/2019 Modesto Bee: Loved ones honor teenage farm worker killed by heat stroke near Farmington in 2008
- 05/16/2019 As spring-summer harvest seasons begin, memorial service for pregnant Mexican immigrant, 17, whose 2008 death helped beef up California’s strict heat rules
- 05/13/2019 Safety BLR.com: Public Citizen renews call for heat stress standard
- 05/09/2019 Fair Warning: Worker Advocates Burned Up Over Lack of Federal Heat Protections
- 03/26/2019 Food & Environment Reporting Network: How climate change drives farmworker activism heat
- 03/08/2019 Orlando Sentinel (FL): Bill targets regulating heat-related injuries for Florida outdoor workers
- 01/10/2019 Moultrie Observer (GA): OSHA fines company after farm worker dies
- 11/26/2018 SUN News Reports: Rivera Agri Inc. – a provider of temporary agricultural labor – has been cited for failing to protect employees working in excessive heat after a farmworker .
- 11/18/2018 Scottsluff Star Herald (NE): Fines proposed over farmworker’s death in sweltering heat