Act Now: Tell your US Rep farm workers deserve overtime
News Coverage
- 06/15/2011 International Business Times: California Governor Jerry Brown Confronted With Chair of Cesar Chavez
- 06/15/2011 The Atlantic: The 12 Dirtiest and 15 Cleanest Fruits and Vegetables
- 06/14/2011 Mother Jones: “Dirty Dozen” List: Great, but What About the Farm Workers?
- 06/14/2011 Bakersfield Californian: Farmworkers urge passage of bill to ease organizing
- 06/13/2011 Los Angeles County AFL-CIO: Tell Governor Brown to Protect Farm Workers
- 06/13/2011 Los Angeles Times: Pesticide-laden produce — Apples and celery top the list
- 06/13/2011 Central Valley Business Times (CA): Farm workers pressure governor to sign legislation
- 06/13/2011 Latina Lista: United Farm Workers asks nation to sign petition supporting Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act
- 06/13/2011 The Atlantic: The Sunshine State’s Pesticide Problem
- 06/10/2011 People’s World: Landmark farmworker bill on its way to governor’s desk
- 06/09/2011 Change.org: It’s Up to California Governor Jerry Brown to Stop Farm Worker Deaths
- 06/09/2011 WABE (GA): Labor shortages grip Georgia’s farms (includes audio)
- 06/09/2011 California Progress Report: SB 104 — Providing Farm Workers a 75-Year-Old Protection
- 06/09/2011 Oakland Tribune (CA): Oakland supports farm workers
- 06/08/2011 California Labor Federation: SB 104 — Providing Farm Workers a 75-Year-Old Protection (includes video)
- 06/03/2011 CBS 47 (CA): Is Methyl Iodide a Safe Pesticide?
- 06/02/2011 Financial Express Bangladesh: The growing threat from pesticides
- 06/02/2011 Salinas Californian: Methyl iodide — ‘Safe until proven guilty’ won’t work
- 06/01/2011 HealthyCal.org: With help from Planned Parenthood, pregnant fieldworkers try to protect themselves from pesticides
- 06/01/2011 Huffington Post: New York Quits Secure Communities Immigration Enforcement Program, Andrew Cuomo Announces
- 06/01/2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Hispanic population growing fast in South, Midwest
- 05/31/2011 New York Times: Supreme Court Won’t Consider Industry Challenge of EPA Carbofuran Ban
- 05/31/2011 Monterey County Herald (CA): Protection from methyl iodide
- 05/27/2011 Desert Sun (CA): Editorial — Thumbs Up: Naming Navy ship after César Chávez an appropriate tribute
- 05/26/2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Cuentos Inmigrantes — Hundreds of farm workers witness the Assembly vote on SB104