News and Events Twitter facebook YouTube Emailshare link 01/17/2021 Politico: Agriculture Who is ‘essential’? Food and farm workers left in limbo in vaccine priorities 01/16/2021 The Desert Sun: Riverside County health officials working to ensure farmworkers receive COVID-19 vaccine, despite ongoing shortages 01/15/2021 Huffington Post: Democrats Call For Fast-Tracking Citizenship For Undocumented Essential Workers 01/15/2021 Politico: Democrats ready immigration push for Biden’s early days 01/13/2021 Desert Sun: Riverside County seniors, teachers and farmworkers can get COVID-19 vaccine starting Thursday 01/12/2021 The Salinas Californian: Farmworkers lose out on $1.5B COVID-19 safety funding after USDA springs surprise spending 01/11/2021 US Senate Committee of Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry: Ranking Member Stabenow Leads Advocates in Urging USDA to Prioritize Protections for Food Workers 01/05/2021 Market Watch: ‘We forget about them as being essential workers.’ COVID-19 has made farm workers even more vulnerable — and created momentum to protect them 01/04/2021 The Desert Sun: Riverside County allocates another $500K for farmworkers with COVID-19. ‘The need is still higher’ 01/02/2021 The Bakersfield Californian: State issues $77,500 in fines in aftermath of outbreak at Primex nut plant in Wasco 12/31/2020 The Sacramento Bee: California farmworkers feed us. They deserve priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine 12/30/2020 The Counter: Why few farm workers isolate in California’s free Covid-19 hotel rooms 12/23/2020 KQED: Judge Orders Foster Farms to Comply With COVID-19 Safety Rules 12/22/2020 Civil Eats: Should Food and Farm Workers Be Next in Line for the COVID Vaccine? 12/22/2020 The Counter: Big Ag and labor groups alike want food and farm workers at the front of the vaccination line 12/21/2020 Business Insider: Apple farm hit with $2 million fine after migrant workers die of COVID-19 12/17/2020 Lawsuit: After 9 Deaths and 400 Infections at Foster Farms’ Meatpacking Plant, Restraining Order Needed to Protect Workers and Merced County 12/17/2020 Earthquakes raising $20,000 to supply holiday relief kits for farm worker families in Salinas 12/17/2020 Mother Jones: “Everyone Is Tired of Always Staying Silent”: Inside a Worker Rebellion in the Central Valley 12/16/2020 KQED: California’s Farmworkers Feed the World. Should They Be Next for a Vaccine? 12/15/2020 Bakersfield protest of McCarthy one of 50 events in 27 states urging Biden to dismantle Trump’s anti-immigrant policies 12/12/2020 Los Angeles Times: New coronavirus outbreaks reported at Foster Farms poultry processing plants 12/12/2020 Protect immigrants from deportation, farm workers will urge at human billboard event 12/11/2020 Civil Eats: Op-ed: Dear Secretary of Agriculture, This Is Your Chance 12/11/2020 The Packer: USDA to reinstate agricultural labor survey « Previous1…3536373839…364Next »