United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 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
- 12/11/2020 NBC News: Farmworkers, firefighters and flight attendants jockey for vaccine priority
- 12/10/2020 Yakima Herald: Letter: Help keep the community safe — donate masks to the United Farm Workers
- 12/09/2020 Cal Matters: New bill pushes California to stock, distribute masks to farmworkers during wildfires
- 12/09/2020 The Desert Review: Assemblymen Garcia and Rivas pass bill putting farmworkers to front of Covid-19 vaccine line
- 12/08/2020 KCET: Farmworkers are both #AlwaysEssential and Perpetually Disposable: How Can We Change All That?