Act Now: Tell your US Rep farm workers deserve overtime
News Coverage
- 06/24/2022 Yakima Herald-Republic: ‘Sí se puede:’ Sunnyside workers protest wages, conditions at mushroom plant
- 06/24/2022 AG Daily: Padilla introducing Senate bill to extend OT pay to agriculture
- 06/21/2022 Daily Kos: Cory Booker becomes the second senator to join farmworkers as part of ‘Take Our Jobs’ challenge
- 06/07/2022 NBC Right Now: Labor and Industries creates rules to protect outdoor workers through hot and smokey conditions
- 06/03/2022 Los Angeles Daily News: Photos: Sen. Padilla takes to the fields in Moorpark to pick parsley, promote immigration reform
- 06/03/2022 Daily Kos: Alex Padilla joins California farmworkers for a day, one of just two senators to accept invitation
- 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 The Bakersfield Californian: Activists renew attention on farmworkers’ heat illness risks
- 05/30/2022 The Center Square: California advances bill allowing farmworkers to vote by mail in union elections
- 05/27/2022 NPR capRadio: A human-trafficking case exposed farmworker abuses. The government is promising change
- 05/26/2022 Sonoma Index-Tribune: Faces of the Climate Crisis: Sonoma’s farworkers
- 05/25/2022 Santa Maria Times: US Department of Labor fines Santa Maria farms for withholding wages, benefits
- 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
- 05/11/2022 Oregon Capital Chronicle: Oregon adopting rules to protect workers from excessive heat and wildfire smoke
- 05/05/2022 UPI: Biden urges Congress to pass immigration reform during Cinco de Mayo ceremony
- 05/03/2022 The Augusta Chronicle: Farm labor advocates, leaders concerned after reported human trafficking, ties to Georgia officials
- 05/02/2022 Popular Science: Farm workers exposed to climate change effects are demanding protections
- 05/01/2022 abc 10: Families of migrant farm works call for justice and reform in Stockton march
- 04/27/2022 The Hill – Opinion: Immigration reform can ease farm labor shortages
- 04/26/2022 Los Angeles Times: California bill would pay farmworkers $1,000 a month to help endure drought, climate crisis
- 04/22/2022 ABC 30 Action News: Discussing pesticide use in agriculture with 2 California organizations
- 04/21/2022 Los Angeles Times: Latinx Files: The other Coachella
- 04/19/2022 Yahoo Entertainment!: ‘Beyond troubling’: Current, former government officials tied to human trafficking probe in Georgia