United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Coverage
- 09/04/2024 E&E News: Coroners ignore heat in many deaths. That’s dangerous.
- 08/30/2024 NBC News: Experimental sensors aim to detect early signs of heatstroke and warn farmworkers
- 08/27/2024 The Chief Leader: State’s temporary farmworkers win right to unionize
- 08/15/2024 Los Angeles Times: California cuts back on safety enforcement as farmworkers toil in extreme heat
- 08/15/2024 PBS: Wildfires are growing under climate change, and the smoke is threatening farmworkers, new study says
- 08/14/2024 Grist: Workers across the US rally after string of heat-related deaths
- 08/13/2024 The Guardian: US workers launch Heat Week to fight for ‘the right to water, shade and rest’
- 08/13/2024 Rochester Beacon: Workers, farms enter binding arbitration
- 08/12/2024 KCRA: Lawmaker pushes for stronger agricultural heat safety compliance after firing of 6 Yolo farmworkers
- 08/09/2024 San Francisco Chronicle: This is what the country can do for undocumented farmworkers who’ve worked for decades and paid taxes
- 08/06/2024 The Hill: EPA issues emergency order to halt use of dangerous pesticide
- 08/02/2024 Newsweek: Trump’s Mass Deportation Plan ‘Would Cut Farming Labor By Half’
- 08/01/2024 Florida Phoenix: With parts of FL under a heat advisory, Kathy Castor calls on OSHA to expedite heat protection rule
- 07/30/2024 Axios: Feds push farmworker vaccines to prevent bird, seasonal flus from mingling
- 07/30/2024 The Associated Press: US will buy flu shots for farmworkers in a bid to prevent bird flu from getting worse
- 07/24/2024 Salon: How a Kamala Harris presidency could change how we feed America
- 07/19/2024 Cal Matters: A California court just granted an ag giant a win. It could jeopardize new farm union law
- 07/17/2024 The Grist: The people who feed America are going hungry
- 07/16/2024 CNN: Colorado bird flu cases show how extreme heat may be complicating efforts to control the virus
- 07/15/2024 Salon: Farmworkers are at greatest exposure risk for bird flu, but given few protections
- 07/14/2024 NPR: Central Valley, where a quarter of the U.S.’s food is grown, faces extreme heat
- 07/11/2024 CalMatters: A not-so-wonderful labor dispute
- 07/09/2024 ABC 10: 6 farmworkers fired after leaving work in Yolo County on hot summer day
- 07/08/2024 KCRA 3: 6 farmworkers fired amid hot temps, multiple California state agencies now investigating retaliation
- 07/02/2024 The Huffington Post: Biden Announces New Rule To Protect Workers From Extreme Heat