Act Now: Tell your US Rep farm workers deserve overtime
News Coverage
- 05/11/2021 Yakima Herald: Inslee signs agricultural worker overtime bill into law in Yakima
- 05/11/2021 The White House: Statement by President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. in Support of Washington State’s Overtime Bill for Farm Workers
- 05/08/2021 The Sacramento Bee: COVID pandemic highlights need for California to invest in farmworker health
- 05/07/2021 LIVE for Live Music: Michael McDonald, Willie Nelson, David Hidalgo Team Up For “Dreams Of The San Joaquin” [Stream]
- 05/06/2021 Earth Justice: We Just Got a Big Win in Court Against a Pesticide Linked to Harming Kids’ Brains
- 04/30/2021 Reuters: EPA’s ‘time is up’ on critical pesticide chlorpyrifos – 9th Circuit
- 04/29/2021 The Intercept: Court Rules That EPA’s Delay “Exposed a Generation of American Children” to Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
- 04/28/2021 The Hill: Biden calls for path to citizenship for dreamers, farmworkers
- 04/28/2021 PBS News Hour: How Florida’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is leaving essential farmworkers behind
- 04/27/2021 San Benito County News: César Chavez supporters walk in his honor
- 04/25/2021 Yakima Herald: Overtime bill for agricultural workers marks a historic change for workers and industry
- 04/21/2021 Politico: Biden’s open to doing immigration through reconciliation, Hispanic lawmakers say
- 04/20/2021 The World: As temperatures heat up, farmworkers across the US push for more rights
- 04/20/2021 Random Lengths News: A Democratic Food System Means Unions for Farmworkers
- 04/19/2021 WAMC: NY Aims To Vaccinate Farmworkers, Food Production Workers
- 04/14/2021 Newsweek: With COVID-19, Nearly Half of U.S. Farm Workers Are ‘First in Exposure, Last in Protection’
- 04/14/2021 The Madera Tribune: Farmworkers encouraged to get vaccine
- 04/14/2021 The Counter: Washington state is likely to pass one of the nation’s strongest farmworker overtime laws
- 04/12/2021 KJZZ 91.5: Phoenix Could Add Street Signs To Honor Labor Leader Cesar Chavez
- 04/10/2021 ABC 7: Gov. Newsom proclaims April 10 Dolores Huerta Day in California in honor of civil rights activist
- 04/09/2021 KION 5/46: Organizations partner to vaccinate thousands of Monterey County farm workers
- 04/09/2021 Capital Press: Washington House passes farmworker overtime bill
- 04/05/2021 Civil Eats: A Path to Citizenship Is on the Horizon for Undocumented Farmworkers
- 04/04/2021 Idaho Press: Editorial: We owe farm workers safety, security of pathway to citizenship
- 04/03/2021 ABC News: California targets critical farmworkers for vaccinations