Labor Secretary Reverses Bush's Attack on Farmworker Labor Laws
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will suspend the midnight Bush Administration changes to weaken labor protections in the nation’s agricultural guestworker program. The changes to the H-2A guestworker...
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Working Away Their Childhoods: Young Farmworkers Robbed of Rights
As kids around the country look forward to the start of summer break, it’s easy to forget that their mid-year vacation is actually curious relic of an earlier time, when children took time off to help...
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On the Border and in the Fields, Dying from the Heat
On Wednesday July 14, California legislators were debating whether the state’s five-year-old heat safety regulations are strong enough to protect the 650,000 farm workers who harvest the bulk of the...
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Supreme Court’s E-Verify Decision Devastating for Employers, Immigrant Workers
Immigrants rights advocates and employers, including farmers, are lashing out at the Supreme Court’s May 26 decision upholding Arizona’s right to demand employers use the controversial e-Verify system,...
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Overtime for farmworkers passes California legislature, heads to governor's desk
The California legislature has passed a bill that would give farmworkers the same overtime protections as other workers. Now the question is whether Gov. Jerry Brown, who has not taken a position on...
View ArticleWendy’s refuses to join program protecting farm workers from sexual abuse
When Silvia Perez came to Immokalee, Florida from Guatemala in 1993, there was one profession that made sense: working in the fields. “Tomato-picking is the biggest industry in Florida, and you find...
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Groups Petition OSHA to Issue Heat Standard
Peggy Frank, a 63-year-old California postal worker — and also a mother and grandmother — died last week while working her usual route in unusually hot weather. Frank’s heat-related death was not a...
View ArticleLabor Secretary Reverses Bush’s Attack on Farmworker Labor Laws
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will suspend the midnight Bush Administration changes to weaken labor protections in the nation’s agricultural guestworker program. The changes to the H-2A guestworker...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Working Away Their Childhoods: Young Farmworkers Robbed of Rights
As kids around the country look forward to the start of summer break, it’s easy to forget that their mid-year vacation is actually curious relic of an earlier time, when children took time off to help...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the Border and in the Fields, Dying from the Heat
On Wednesday July 14, California legislators were debating whether the state’s five-year-old heat safety regulations are strong enough to protect the 650,000 farm workers who harvest the bulk of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Supreme Court’s E-Verify Decision Devastating for Employers, Immigrant Workers
Immigrants rights advocates and employers, including farmers, are lashing out at the Supreme Court’s May 26 decision upholding Arizona’s right to demand employers use the controversial e-Verify system,...
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Overtime for farmworkers passes California legislature, heads to governor’s desk
The California legislature has passed a bill that would give farmworkers the same overtime protections as other workers. Now the question is whether Gov. Jerry Brown, who has not taken a position on...
View ArticleWendy’s refuses to join program protecting farm workers from sexual abuse
When Silvia Perez came to Immokalee, Florida from Guatemala in 1993, there was one profession that made sense: working in the fields. “Tomato-picking is the biggest industry in Florida, and you find...
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Groups Petition OSHA to Issue Heat Standard
Peggy Frank, a 63-year-old California postal worker — and also a mother and grandmother — died last week while working her usual route in unusually hot weather. Frank’s heat-related death was not a...
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Will the Supreme Court Overrule Farmworker Union Rights?
Share this post Not long before Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit against California’s farmworker access rule in federal court on behalf of two companies—Cedar...
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HOW FARMWORKERS IN MICHIGAN ARE FIGHTING FOR LABOR RIGHTS AND RESPECT
Share this post On December 6, 2020, a federal judge heard arguments on a motion to dismiss in Reyes-Trujillo v. Four Star Greenhouse, a case brought by a group of farmworkers alleging wage and hour...
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How Decades of Local Activism Led to the Biggest Dam Removal Deal In U.S....
Share this post “The Klamath River is the center of our traditions, culture and community, and has always been the centerpiece of our way of life,” says Frankie Myers, vice-chairperson for the Yurok...
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How the Deep Roots of Farm Labor Solidarity Helped Wisconsin Survive the...
Share this post When Covid-19 forced Wisconsin to shut down in late March last year, supply shocks to the agricultural industry delivered a staggering blow to family farmers, many of whom have long...
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How the Covid Land Rush Is Hurting New Farmers
Share this post The pandemic has inspired city dwellers and investors to buy land in rural areas. That’s driving up farmland prices and pushing some beginning farmers out of the market. Abel Dowden,...
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Historic heat wave highlights the need for farmworker protections
Share this post Summer heat is a danger for farmworkers every year, with heat deaths happening steadily. But with climate change and heat waves like the one that hit the Pacific Northwest in recent...
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