CLICK TO TAKE ACTION: New heat risk for farm workers during COVID-19
News Coverage
- 09/17/2020 NPR: ‘I Have To Work’: Agricultural Workers In The West Harvest Crops Through Fire Smoke
- 09/17/2020 The Oregonian: Wildfires Oregon farmworkers face ‘awful choice’ as wildfire smoke plagues harvest
- 09/13/2020 CAL Matters: California farmworkers say they didn’t get masks during wildfires
- 09/12/2020 Bloomberg: Covid Is Clobbering America’s Farm Workers
- 09/08/2020 Politico: Harvest of shame: Farmworkers face coronavirus disaster
- 09/07/2020 The Washington Post: The female labor pioneer who battled grape growers and sexism
- 09/07/2020 NPR: Farm Workers Face Double Threat: Wildfire Smoke And COVID-19
- 09/07/2020 Forbes: Biden Campaign Hosts Food And Farm Groups Who Say Trump Failed To Protect Workers
- 09/03/2020 Civil Eats: A Battle over Mandatory Farmworker Testing Reveals a Broken System
- 09/03/2020 CBS News: Hazardous air quality threatens California farmworkers after devastating wildfires
- 09/03/2020 Los Angeles Times: Marion Moses, Cesar Chavez confidant and expert on farmworkers’ health, dies
- 09/01/2020 abc 30 Action News: Union threatens boycott of Foster Farms following COVID-19 outbreak
- 08/31/2020 Latin Post: Port of LA, Shipping Companies Donate 75K Respiratory Masks for Farm Workers
- 08/31/2020 The Fresno Bee: United Farm Workers threatens to boycott Foster Farms in California due to COVID-19 outbreak
- 08/31/2020 Your Central Valley: Foster Farms Livingston plant to close Tuesday, UFW ask for better worker safety
- 08/31/2020 CBS Los Angeles: Port Of LA, Shipping Company Donate 75K Respiratory Masks To Farmworkers
- 08/31/2020 Daily Breeze: Farm workers to get protective masks thanks to shipping giant, Port of LA
- 08/31/2020 Fresno Bee: United Farm Workers threatens to boycott Foster Farms in California due to COVID-19 outbreak
- 08/30/2020 The Mercury News: Smoke, ash from River Fire raises questions about produce, farmworker safety
- 08/28/2020 The Allegheny Front: Climate Change, Covid and Wildfires Are Making Farmworkers’ Jobs More Dangerous
- 08/28/2020 NBC News: Farmworkers to receive Hispanic Heritage Award for their ‘heroic’ service amid coronavirus
- 08/27/2020 Agri-Pulse: UFW: 84% of farm workers not given N95s
- 08/27/2020 Civil Eats: Isolated in Crowded Conditions, Guest Farmworkers Face High Coronavirus Toll
- 08/25/2020 The New York Times: Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
- 08/24/2020 CBS SF BayArea: Farm Workers Already Challenged By COVID Labor Through Heat And Wildfire Smoke