News and Events Twitter facebook YouTube Emailshare link 06/15/2011 Real people from the fields: Mauricia Calvillo and why farm workers need “Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act” 06/14/2011 Mother Jones: “Dirty Dozen” List: Great, but What About the Farm Workers? 06/14/2011 Bakersfield Californian: Farmworkers urge passage of bill to ease organizing 06/14/2011 REP. LAMAR SMITH’S MANDATORY E-VERIFY PROPOSAL LEADS TO MORE EXPLOITATION OF FARMWORKERS – UFW AND FARMWORKER JUSTICE OPPPOSE E-VERIFY WITHOUT LEGALIZATION 06/14/2011 Cesar Chavez Foundation receives U.S. agency’s top national award for service and volunteerism 06/13/2011 Los Angeles Times: Pesticide-laden produce — Apples and celery top the list 06/13/2011 Los Angeles County AFL-CIO: Tell Governor Brown to Protect Farm Workers 06/13/2011 The Atlantic: The Sunshine State’s Pesticide Problem 06/13/2011 Latina Lista: United Farm Workers asks nation to sign petition supporting Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act 06/13/2011 Central Valley Business Times (CA): Farm workers pressure governor to sign legislation 06/10/2011 People’s World: Landmark farmworker bill on its way to governor’s desk 06/09/2011 Oakland Tribune (CA): Oakland supports farm workers 06/09/2011 California Progress Report: SB 104 — Providing Farm Workers a 75-Year-Old Protection 06/09/2011 WABE (GA): Labor shortages grip Georgia’s farms (includes audio) 06/09/2011 Change.org: It’s Up to California Governor Jerry Brown to Stop Farm Worker Deaths 06/08/2011 California Labor Federation: SB 104 — Providing Farm Workers a 75-Year-Old Protection (includes video) 06/08/2011 “Human Billboards” in the Central Valley urge Governor Brown to sign Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act 06/06/2011 Oakland City Council to pass resolution in support of the Fair Treatment for Farm Workers 06/03/2011 CBS 47 (CA): Is Methyl Iodide a Safe Pesticide? 06/02/2011 Salinas Californian: Methyl iodide — ‘Safe until proven guilty’ won’t work 06/02/2011 Financial Express Bangladesh: The growing threat from pesticides 06/01/2011 Huffington Post: New York Quits Secure Communities Immigration Enforcement Program, Andrew Cuomo Announces 06/01/2011 HealthyCal.org: With help from Planned Parenthood, pregnant fieldworkers try to protect themselves from pesticides 06/01/2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Hispanic population growing fast in South, Midwest 05/31/2011 New York Times: Supreme Court Won’t Consider Industry Challenge of EPA Carbofuran Ban « Previous1…214215216217218…365Next »