UFW calls for boycott of Windmill Mushrooms
News Coverage
- 07/12/2008 Merced Sun Star: Safe water is scarce at Los Banos housing center –
- 07/11/2008 KCOY: Heat wave victim laid to rest.
- 07/11/2008 Bakersfield Californian: Possible heat death prompts questions from local lawmaker
- 07/11/2008 KSBY: Santa Maria family searches for answers in death of field worker
- 07/11/2008 News10.net: Third, Possible Heat-Related Farmworker Death Investigated
- 07/11/2008 Porterville Recorder: UFW leader says heat to blame for farmworkers’ deaths
- 07/11/2008 Sacramento Bee: State investigating third farmworker fatality in scorching weather
- 07/10/2008 KMPH: Heat Could Be To Blame In Two Farmworker Deaths
- 07/10/2008 KERO ch 23: Heat Possibly Claims Worker’s Life
- 07/10/2008 KBAK: Heat Wave Alert-Farm workers suffer brunt of heat one dies, two sick
- 07/10/2008 KGET: Kern County Heat Wave
- 07/10/2008 KGET: Heat Death Victim Identified
- 07/10/2008 Associated Press: More heat-related incidents reported
- 07/10/2008 Bakersfield Californian: Farm workers union complains about heat-related deaths
- 07/10/2008 KERO ch 23: Heat Wave Strikes Farm Workers Living In Field – UFW Concerned After 3 Heat-Related Deaths In 2 Months
- 07/09/2008 KFSN 30 Protecting Workers from Heat Stress a Priority during Heat Wave (includes video 2:07)
- 07/09/2008 KCRA: Heat Claims Life of Another Farm Worker – 64-Year-Old Man Died On 110-Degree Day
- 07/09/2008 NPR: California Checks On Farmworkers In Heat Wave
- 07/08/2008 SF Bay Guardian: Bucking off Chuck – Death of 17-year-old pregnant farm worker incites campaign against Trader Joe’s
- 07/08/2008 KERO ch 23: Farm Worker Killed By Tractor Remembered – UFW Says Accident Should Never Have Happened
- 07/06/2008 Stockton Record: Labor union seeks Trader Joe’s assistance – Calls on grocery chain to toughen vendor policies
- 07/04/2008 Sacramento Bee: Merced labor contractor reopens, then is shut down again
- 07/04/2008 Stockton Record: Labor firm ordered to cease again – It was shut down temporarily after teen worker died
- 07/04/2008 Central Valley Business Times: Farm labor contractor shut down – again. Merced Farm Labor was back in business until Thursday afternoon. Contractor not in compliance with regulations says CalOSHA
- 07/03/2008 San Francisco Chronicle: Farm firm back after teen’s death