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News and Events
- 09/22/2020 Protect essential farm workers from deportation, farm worker will urge House Judiciary Committee
- 09/22/2020 Environmental Working Group: Study: More Than 125,000 Farmworkers Have Contracted Covid-19
- 09/17/2020 NPR: ‘I Have To Work’: Agricultural Workers In The West Harvest Crops Through Fire Smoke
- 09/17/2020 The Oregonian: Wildfires Oregon farmworkers face ‘awful choice’ as wildfire smoke plagues harvest
- 09/16/2020 UFW backs Hickenlooper, a partner for farm workers earning equal rights to overtime pay and a legal immigration process
- 09/13/2020 CAL Matters: California farmworkers say they didn’t get masks during wildfires
- 09/12/2020 Bloomberg: Covid Is Clobbering America’s Farm Workers
- 09/10/2020 Courts dismiss growers’ effort to block Michigan’s public health order providing free COVID-19 testing for farm workers
- 09/08/2020 Politico: Harvest of shame: Farmworkers face coronavirus disaster
- 09/07/2020 The Washington Post: The female labor pioneer who battled grape growers and sexism
- 09/07/2020 NPR: Farm Workers Face Double Threat: Wildfire Smoke And COVID-19
- 09/07/2020 Forbes: Biden Campaign Hosts Food And Farm Groups Who Say Trump Failed To Protect Workers
- 09/03/2020 Civil Eats: A Battle over Mandatory Farmworker Testing Reveals a Broken System
- 09/03/2020 CBS News: Hazardous air quality threatens California farmworkers after devastating wildfires
- 09/03/2020 Los Angeles Times: Marion Moses, Cesar Chavez confidant and expert on farmworkers’ health, dies
- 09/01/2020 abc 30 Action News: Union threatens boycott of Foster Farms following COVID-19 outbreak
- 08/31/2020 Latin Post: Port of LA, Shipping Companies Donate 75K Respiratory Masks for Farm Workers
- 08/31/2020 The Fresno Bee: United Farm Workers threatens to boycott Foster Farms in California due to COVID-19 outbreak
- 08/31/2020 Your Central Valley: Foster Farms Livingston plant to close Tuesday, UFW ask for better worker safety
- 08/31/2020 CBS Los Angeles: Port Of LA, Shipping Company Donate 75K Respiratory Masks To Farmworkers
- 08/31/2020 Daily Breeze: Farm workers to get protective masks thanks to shipping giant, Port of LA
- 08/31/2020 Fresno Bee: United Farm Workers threatens to boycott Foster Farms in California due to COVID-19 outbreak
- 08/31/2020 Pledging boycott of Foster Farms if giant Livingston plant continues failing to provide a safe workplace after at least 8 worker deaths
- 08/31/2020 PORT OF LOS ANGELES, CMA CGM GROUP DONATE 75,000 MASKS TO UNITED FARM WORKERS
- 08/30/2020 The Mercury News: Smoke, ash from River Fire raises questions about produce, farmworker safety