News and Events Twitter facebook YouTube Emailshare link 08/15/2023 Los Angeles Times: Exploitation, retaliation, alarming conditions: Inside the crisis at West Coast mushroom farms 08/09/2023 The Reckon Report: Say Their Names: These are all the farmworkers who have died from extreme heat in the last year 08/08/2023 KSBW Action News 8: Salinas teen co-writes first-of-its-kind national resolution to honor farmworkers 08/08/2023 UFW CALLS FOR NEW YORK FARM TO BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS FOR FAIR UNION CONTRACT 08/03/2023 Time: Extreme Heat Is Endangering America’s Workers—and Its Economy 08/02/2023 Environmental Defense Fund: The growing threat of heat for farmworkers 07/31/2023 The Guardian: Big business lobbies against heat protections for workers as US boils 07/28/2023 Democracy Now: Texas Rep. Greg Casar on Why He Undertook “Thirst Strike” to Demand Heat Protections for Workers 07/26/2023 Farm Workers Demand OSHA Issue Federal Heat Rule 07/25/2023 CBS News: Texas Congressman Greg Casar holds hunger and thirst strike to call for federal workplace heat standard 07/25/2023 CNN: Texas congressman leads thirst and hunger strike to urge heat protections for workers 07/25/2023 Texas Observer: Texas Workers, Congressman Launch ‘Thirst Strike’ for Heat Protections 07/24/2023 America’s Voice: “No Worker Deserves To Die On The Job”: Calls For Federal Heat Protections Intensify Following Tragic Death Of Florida Farmworker 07/24/2023 AZ Central: Yuma farmworker and father of 2 dies amid record heat wave 07/23/2023 The New York Times: Rising Heat Deaths Are Not Just About the Temperature 07/23/2023 CBS News: Brutal heat wave tests farm workers, many of whom lack legal protections 07/23/2023 Dr. Walt Newman Jr., dedicated himself over many years to farm worker health care and the UFW’s RFK Medical Plan 07/21/2023 The Press Democrat: California’s farmworkers in labor investigations will get free legal help with immigration 07/20/2023 Beacon: ‘Embarrassing and shameful’: Advocates blast Mills’ veto of farmworker rights bill 07/20/2023 NBC News: South Florida mourns death of another farmworker as advocates fight for heat protections: 07/19/2023 CBS News Miami: Homestead farmworker dies because of extreme heat 07/19/2023 Capital & Main: Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms 07/17/2023 The Sacramento Bee: UFW just got big union wins at New York farms. Is the same coming for California? 07/17/2023 Yakima Herald-Republic: Newhouse reintroduces Farm Workforce Modernization Act, optimistic about Senate’s support 07/16/2023 NPR: The U.S.’s increased reliance on farmworkers from other countries is drawing concern « Previous1…7891011…364Next »