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Heat News
- 08/30/2023 KOSU NPR: Great Plains farmworkers struggle with extreme heat — and almost no regulatory safeguards
- 08/30/2023 CBS News: Workers pay the price while Congress and employers debate need for heat regulations
- 08/29/2023 Undark Magazine: Farmworkers Face Increasing Heat Waves With Little Protection
- 08/28/2023 The Modesto Bee: Heat’s a danger to farmworkers in Stanislaus, Valley region. Climate change makes it worse
- 08/28/2023 Iowa Public Radio: Midwest farmworkers struggle with extreme heat — and almost no regulatory safeguards
- 08/27/2023 Star Tribune: Midwest farmworkers struggle with extreme heat and almost no regulatory safeguards
- 08/26/2023 St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Poor safeguards leave farmworkers suffocating as heat waves increase
- 08/26/2023 Santa Cruz Sentinel: After farmworker’s death, UFW and Padilla seek stronger protections
- 08/24/2023 Northern Public Radio: Extreme heat highlights federal healthcare program for farmworkers
- 08/24/2023 The Shorthorn Editorial: Climate change is not your fault
- 08/24/2023 Tri Stat Public Radio: Midwest farmworkers struggle with extreme heat — and almost no regulatory safeguards
- 08/22/2023 KQED: A Farmworker Death in California Heat Has UFW, Padilla Urging Major Changes
- 08/22/2023 Peninsula 360 Press: Senator Alex Padilla Pushes Legislation to Protect Outdoor Workers from Heat
- 08/21/2023 AG Web: Keep Farm Employees Safe During the Extreme Heat
- 08/21/2023 Jefferson Public Radio: After farmworker’s death in Fresno-area heat, UFW and Sen. Padilla say it’s time for stronger protections at work
- 08/21/2023 California Local: A Farmworker Dies in Fresno’s 100-Degree Heat As UFW, Padilla Call for New Workplace Protections
- 08/18/2023 The Fresno Bee: Farmworker who labored in extreme California heat died. Family, advocates seeking answers
- 08/18/2023 The Bakersfield Californian: ‘Laws on the books aren’t the laws in the field’: US Senator Padilla, advocates seek national workplace heat protections
- 08/18/2023 ABC 30: California Sen. Alex Padilla pushes for outdoor workers rights after recent heat-related deaths
- 08/18/2023 Cal Matters: After farmworker’s death in Fresno-area heat, UFW and Sen. Padilla say it’s time for stronger protections at work
- 08/18/2023 Senator Alex Padilla: Padilla Joins Union Workers in the Central Valley to Push for Federal Heat Stress Protections
- 08/18/2023 The Sentinel: After farmworker’s death in Fresno-area heat, UFW and Sen. Padilla say it’s time for stronger protections at work
- 08/18/2023 KVPR: Farmworker dies in Fresno County after working in extreme heat. ‘He should not have died.’
- 08/17/2023 The Brunswick News: 113 degrees at work, failing AC at home: Farm workers can’t escape life-threatening heat
- 08/16/2023 Los Angeles Times: 113 degrees at work, failing AC at home: Farmworkers can’t escape life-threatening heat