UFW calls for boycott of Windmill Mushrooms
Windmill Mushroom campaign news
- 11/28/2023 Source One News: Workers suing Yakima County mushroom farm over mistreatment and union rights denial
- 11/28/2023 Workers Sue Windmill Farms to Demand Fair Treatmentand Union Recognition
- 11/12/2023 The Globe and Mail: Mushroom-farm workers call for collective-bargaining rights in Washington
- 09/18/2023 High Country News: Farmworkers fight for higher pay, better hours and fair treatment
- 09/13/2023 Telemundo: Esta planta cambió de dueño, pero sus trabajadores latinos denuncian que “no ha mejorado nada”
- 09/12/2023 Telemundo: Trabajadoras latinas de una planta de recolección de hongos en el estado de Washington denuncian abusos: “Hubo mucha injusticia”
- 09/02/2023 The Seattle Times: Advocates ramp up support in Seattle for farmworker union recognition
- 08/31/2023 America’s Voice: Let’s Celebrate And Honor The Essential Immigrant Workers Who Keep Us Fed All Year Round
- 08/21/2023 Mile-long human billboard line with UFW Pres. Romero calls for recognizing union & buying union-picked mushrooms
- 08/15/2023 Los Angeles Times: Exploitation, retaliation, alarming conditions: Inside the crisis at West Coast mushroom farms
- 08/14/2023 The Stand: Mushroom workers to rally Aug. 31 in Seattle
- 08/11/2023 The Seattle Times: Mushroom company fined over several violations of farmworkers’ rights
- 08/10/2023 Sunnyside Sun: Department of Labor assesses Ostrom Farms, finds $74K in penalties
- 07/19/2023 Capital & Main: Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms
- 05/17/2023 Sunnyside Sun: Sunnyside mushroom farm will pay $3.4 million for violating the civil rights of its workers
- 05/17/2023 The Seattle Times: $3.4 million fine resolves lawsuit against WA mushroom farm
- 05/17/2023 Yakima Herald-Republic: Ostrom to pay workers $3.4 million to resolve WA attorney general lawsuit
- 05/17/2023 Tri-Cities Yakima: Sunnyside mushroom farm to pay $3.4 million in civil rights lawsuit
- 05/17/2023 King 5: Sunnyside mushroom farm to pay $3.4 million for discriminating against workers
- 05/17/2023 WA AG office: Sunnyside mushroom farm will pay $3.4 million for violating the civil rights of its workers
- 05/17/2023 Windmill-Ostrom Workers Welcome 3.4 Million Dollar Payment for Civil Rights Violations; Continue to Fight for Union Recognition
- 05/08/2023 Yakima-Heral Republic: Farmworkers continue to speak out about conditions at Sunnyside mushroom plant
- 05/03/2023 The Stand: May Day: Together, we have the power
- 04/30/2023 Yakima Herald: Efforts to unionize agricultural workers in WA face long-standing hurdles
- 04/29/2023 Yakima Herald: PHOTOS: Unionization efforts of farmworkers in the Yakima Valley