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News Coverage
- 07/09/2021 Wenatchee World: State issues emergency rules for people working in extreme heat
- 07/08/2021 HuffPost: Farmworkers Demand Basic Safety After Working In Extreme Heat Wave
- 07/07/2021 KALW: What Will It Take To Protect Farmworkers From The Deadly Heat?
- 07/06/2021 Senator Dick Durbin: Durbin Urges Senate To Pass Bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act
- 07/06/2021 Stateman Journal: Oregon Gov. Kate Brown orders OSHA to create emergency rules after farmworker’s heat death
- 07/05/2021 The Guardian: A farm worker and a father: victims of the Pacific north-west’s heatwave
- 07/03/2021 Time: This Week’s Heat Wave Is Pushing Businesses and Workers to Their Limit
- 07/02/2021 Al Dia News: Amid Pacific Northwest heatwave, too much emphasis is on Washington’s cherry harvest, and not those doing it
- 07/01/2021 Idaho Statesman: Dangerous heat wave continues to broil Idaho. How can farmworkers be protected?
- 07/01/2021 The Huffington Post: These Are Your Rights At Work When It Is Dangerously Hot
- 07/01/2021 New York Magazine: ‘It’s Just Devastating to See These Conditions’
- 07/01/2021 The Associated Press: Biden to host naturalization event, push path to citizenship
- 06/29/2021 NBC News: Union calls for ‘urgent’ farmworker protections during Washington’s record heat
- 06/29/2021 The Washington Post: Blackouts in US Northwest due to heat wave, deaths reported
- 06/29/2021 Statesman Journal: Farmworker dies in Willamette Valley record heat
- 06/29/2021 Vice: Farmworkers Endure Brutal Conditions During Historic Heat Wave
- 06/29/2021 The Seattle Times: Farmworkers push through hottest temperatures on record in Washington
- 06/28/2021 Politico: The heat is on, in a bad way
- 06/28/2021 KGW 8: Tracking heat wave impact on Pacific Northwest crops, farm workers
- 06/25/2021 U.S. News & World Report: Colorado Governor Signs Farmworker Rights and Wages Law
- 06/23/2021 CAL Matters: Supreme Court limits California union recruiting in favor of property rights
- 06/20/2021 The Washington Post: Farmworkers and construction crews face special danger as an extreme heat wave continues to bake the West
- 06/20/2021 ABC News: Farmworkers especially vulnerable as dangerous heat wave scorches wide swath of US
- 06/18/2021 Bloomberg: Workers Critical to U.S. Fruit Supplies Face Danger From Extreme Hea
- 06/17/2021 Statesman Journal: Opinion: Protect workers from smoke exposure