UFW calls for boycott of Windmill Mushrooms
News Coverage
- 12/13/2011 Labor Department proposes rules aimed at protecting young farm workersblic (IN): Labor Department proposes rules aimed at protecting young farm workers
- 12/09/2011 PressDemocrat: Few California farmers embrace controversial pesticide
- 12/08/2011 Los Angeles Times: Cesar Chavez’s grandson arrested in Occupy L.A. closure
- 12/07/2011 Florida Independent: Farmworkers ask EPA for protection from pesticides
- 12/07/2011 Fox News: Cesar Chavez’s Grandson Arrested at Occupy LA
- 12/06/2011 HealthyCal.org: Farmers slow to adopt new pesticide (Methyl Iodide)
- 12/05/2011 Fresno Business Journal (CA): Sanger citrus grower fined for pesticide drift
- 12/04/2011 Statement from the Farm Worker Movement: Remembering farm worker champion David Burciaga
- 11/30/2011 Fox News: Police Arrest More Than 200 in Raid of ‘Occupy L.A.’ Camp (includes video)
- 11/30/2011 Doughlas Daily Dispatch (AZ): The Gallery to present Cathy Murphy in December
- 11/29/2011 Mother Jones: Why Businesses Love Illegal Immigration
- 11/17/2011 Monterey County Weekly: Opponents of strawberry fumigant methyl iodide push supes for county action
- 11/15/2011 La Voz Nueva: Remembering Cesar’s fight
- 11/11/2011 Pesticide Action Network: Simmering in strawberry country
- 11/09/2011 Bloomberg Businessweek: Why Americans Won’t Do Dirty Jobs
- 11/07/2011 Mercury News: Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors may enter methyl iodide debate
- 11/07/2011 ColorLines: 60 Farmwokers Stranded After Refusing to Work Below Minimum Wage (includes video)
- 11/04/2011 NBC News: Migrants’ woes: bed bugs, foul toilets, illness
- 11/04/2011 OregonLive: Washington apple pickers stranded after refusing to pick for less than minimum wage
- 11/04/2011 KIMA CBS 29 (WA): Washington farm workers say picking pay is rotten
- 11/04/2011 Monterey County Herald: CHAVEZ’S JAIL CONNECTION — Link to labor leader could lead to historic designation
- 11/04/2011 KNDU-25 and KNDO-23 (WA): Farm workers react to inmates picking apples
- 11/04/2011 KIMA-TV (WA): Washington farm workers say picking pay is rotten (video)
- 11/04/2011 Seattle Times: Farmworkers say they were stranded in Washington orchard
- 11/04/2011 Latin Amnerican Herald Tribune: Union Denounces Subhuman Conditions in Farmworker Housing