United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Heat News
- 03/21/2024 Environmental Health News: Florida’s farmworkers face a new challenge as state bans heat protections
- 03/19/2024 North Carolina Health News: Scientists call for using more accurate metrics to gauge extreme heat after farmworker’s death in Nash County
- 03/19/2024 The Washington Post: US farms are increasingly reliant on contract workers who are acutely exposed to climate extremes
- 03/18/2024 Scientific American: As Extreme Heat and Smoke Threaten U.S. Farmworkers, Federal Health Leaders Evaluate Protections
- 03/14/2024 Florida Phoenix: The Florida Legislature doesn’t care how hot outdoor workers get
- 03/13/2024 Grist: As heat becomes a national threat, who will be protected?
- 03/11/2024 The Apopka Voice: Farmworkers push back on Florida Legislature’s Heat Preemption Bill
- 03/08/2024 The Guardian: Florida passes ‘cruel’ bill curbing water and shade protections for workers
- 03/07/2024 Cleveland.com: Florida could become the latest state to block extreme heat protections for workers
- 03/06/2024 AOL: Florida Senate passes bill blocking local rules protecting workers from heat
- 03/06/2024 NBC News: Florida Senate passes bill blocking local rules protecting workers from heat
- 03/05/2024 BNN: Florida State Senate Votes 28-11 to Strip Local Governments’ Power Over Worker Heat Protections, Imposing Delays Until 2028
- 03/05/2024 WJBC 20: Florida Senate votes to ban heat-related worker protectionsWJBC 20:
- 03/05/2024 Florida Politics: Senate strips wage preemption from heat exposure bill, sends back to House
- 03/04/2024 Insurance Journal: Plan Takes Shape in Rural California to Provide Farm Workers Shade From Heat
- 03/02/2024 BNN: Farmworkers Brace for Another Scorching Summer: Innovations and Challenges Ahead
- 02/29/2024 Marketplace: Farmworkers are making — and enforcing — the strongest heat protection rules in the country
- 02/27/2024 Scientific American: Florida Considers Banning Local Heat Protections for Workers
- 02/27/2024 Politico: Florida Republicans’ war on the war on heat
- 02/20/2024 Environmental Health News: Florida farmworkers spearhead nation’s most stringent heat safety measures in agriculture
- 02/18/2024 Nottingham MD: Attorney General Brown takes steps to protect workers from occupational heat exposure
- 02/17/2024 The Washington Post: These farmworkers created America’s strongest workplace heat rules
- 02/16/2024 Science Direct: “No matter how hot it is, you just have to do the work”: Examining farmworkers’ experiences with heat and climate change in Idaho
- 02/15/2024 CA Senator Cortese: Senator Cortese’s bill will provide fast relief for heat-injured farm workers
- 01/30/2024 Daily Kos: Florida GOP wants to block heat protection for workers. Good thing it’s never hot there