CLICK TO TAKE ACTION: New heat risk for farm workers during COVID-19
News Coverage
- 08/24/2020 Detroit Free Press: Michigan farms, immigrant advocates clash over coronavirus testing for workers
- 08/22/2020 The Guardian: ‘An impossible choice’: farmworkers pick a paycheck over health despite smoke-filled air
- 08/22/2020 ABC7 Eyewitness News: Advocates push for support of California farmworkers amid COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires
- 08/22/2020 NBC Palm Springs: Farmworkers Continue Labor In Extreme Conditions
- 08/22/2020 Hillsdale Daily News: Judge won’t stop virus tests for migrant farm, food workers
- 08/22/2020 AG+: These farmworkers put food on our tables. Now, they have to work for hours amid wildfires, a heatwave and a pandemic, while making minimum wage.
- 08/20/2020 Yahoo News: Farmworkers Work Amid Dense Smoke in Salinas Near River Fire
- 08/20/2020 San Francisco Chronicle: As smoke fills the air, California farmworkers still labor to put food on the table
- 08/18/2020 Civil Eats: Kamala Harris Brings Food Justice to the Democratic Ticket
- 08/17/2020 The Salinas Californian: COVID-19 rips through California motel rooms of guest workers who pick nation’s produce
- 08/17/2020 Cal Matters: Investigation: COVID rips through motel rooms of guest workers who pick nation’s produce
- 08/17/2020 The Wall Street Journal: As California Struggles With Covid-19, Farmworkers Are Among Most Affected
- 08/17/2020 MLive: Public Interest Federal judge declines to set aside Michigan order requiring farm workers to be tested for coronavirus
- 08/17/2020 AZCentral: As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers are ‘prioritizing production over … lives’
- 08/15/2020 Capital Press: Inslee sets up COVID-19 fund for farmworkers
- 08/12/2020 The New York Times: The Scramble to Pluck 24 Billion Cherries in Eight Weeks
- 08/11/2020 The Los Angeles Times: Coronavirus strikes indoor mushroom farms
- 08/11/2020 NBC News: Rep. Raul Ruiz, congressman and doctor, takes coronavirus testing to farmworkers
- 08/10/2020 Albany Times Union: Viewpoint: Farmworkers deserve basic COVID protections
- 08/10/2020 Standford Medicine Scope: Stanford medical student’s tweet about blueberry pickers’ wages goes viral
- 08/08/2020 The Guardian: ‘Everyone tested positive’: Covid devastates agriculture workers in California’s heartland
- 08/08/2020 Los Angeles Times: COVID-19 strikes Washington state farmworkers and swamps rural hospitals
- 08/07/2020 The Seattle Times: Widow recounts call with farmworker husband who died of COVID-19 in Okanogan labor camp
- 08/06/2020 Madera Tribune: UFW doing what it can to help workers
- 08/04/2020 Earthjustice: Lawmakers Aim To Ban Brain-Damaging Pesticides With New Bill