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News and Events
- 07/26/2020 CNBC: Advocates push for more farmworker protections as coronavirus cases surge
- 07/25/2020 Los Angeles Times: This county knew coronavirus could ravage its farmworkers. Why didn’t officials stop it?
- 07/23/2020 Tucson.com: As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers prioritize production over lives
- 07/23/2020 CAL Matters: Workers in the San Joaquin Valley ask the attorney general for support
- 07/23/2020 San Antonio Express-News: Ayala: First woman, immigrant to lead UFW sees no benefit in calling farmworkers ‘essential’
- 07/22/2020 Grist Magazine: Why are farmworkers joining the strike for Black lives? Shared roots.
- 07/22/2020 Food Tank: New on the Podcast: Teresa Romero discusses justice for farm workers
- 07/22/2020 JEC Releases New Report on Cost of Gaps in Paid Sick Leave During the Coronavirus Crisis
- 07/21/2020 PBS Frontline: She Has Cancer and Is High-Risk for COVID Complications. But Like Many Essential Farmworkers, She Can’t Stay Home
- 07/20/2020 CBS Los Angeles: Workers Walk Off The Job Monday In Strike For Black Lives By CBSLA Staff
- 07/20/2020 NPR: Essential Workers Hold Walkouts And Protests In National ‘Strike For Black Lives’
- 07/20/2020 The Washington Post: The historical alliance behind today’s Strike for Black Lives
- 07/20/2020 USA Today: ‘Whatever it takes’: Thousands of workers could join Strike for Black Lives, walking off jobs Monday to protest racial inequality
- 07/19/2020 The New York Times: How Buying Beans Became a Political Statement
- 07/19/2020 Up News Info: United Farm Workers president: Why we’re striking for Black lives
- 07/18/2020 Baltimore Sun: ‘COVID’s Hidden Toll’ and the threat of the virus to farm workers keeping our food supply going | COMMENTARY
- 07/18/2020 Why UFW is joining the Strike for Black Lives
- 07/18/2020 Mourning the passing of civil rights hero John R. Lewis
- 07/17/2020 The Counter: On Monday, thousands of food workers will walk off the job in a “Strike for Black Lives”
- 07/17/2020 UFW asks CA AG investigation after Primex worker death, continuing spike of COVID-19 infections and company retaliation against employee for speaking out
- 07/15/2020 Los Angeles Times: Ventura County sees increase in number of positive coronavirus cases among farmworkers
- 07/15/2020 Cronkite News: As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers are ‘prioritizing production over … lives’
- 07/15/2020 KABC 7: Ventura County aiming to keep farmworkers healthy and food safe to sustain $2 billion industry
- 07/14/2020 Bloomberg: Only Eight U.S. States Have Virus Rules for Farms as Cases Rise
- 07/10/2020 The Associated Press: ‘A slap in the face:’ Goya faces boycott over Trump praise