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- 02/09/2019 KYMA (AZ): Memorial for farm worker killed during a local strike
- 02/08/2019 Rufino Contreras still inspires movement 40 years after lettuce striker was slain; UFW, Cesar Chavez family, local officials join Contreras family
- 02/07/2019 Sen. Kalama D. Harris: Harris Reintroduces Legislation to Strengthen Labor Protections for Farm Workers
- 02/07/2019 Rep. Raul Grijalva: Rep. Grijalva and Senator Harris Re-Introduce Fairness for Farm Workers Act’
- 02/07/2019 Farmworker Justice: FARMWORKER JUSTICE STATEMENT ON FAIRNESS FOR FARM WORKERS ACT OF 2019
- 02/07/2019 Harris-Grijalva bill ends ‘racist exclusion’ of farm workers from overtime pay 81 years after nearly all other U.S. workers won
- 02/06/2019 Earthjustice: WHEELER’S EPA KEEPS BRAIN-DAMAGING CHLORPYRIFOS IN FOOD, FOR NOW
- 02/06/2019 Visalia Times Delta: Lawmakers wants to give farm workers a voice, will others follow?
- 02/01/2019 National faith leaders gather at Well-Pict cooler in Watsonville asking Premiere to honor state-ordered raspberry workers’ union contract
- 01/31/2019 New Jersey minimum wage bill accepts ‘racist legacy’ of excluding farm workers; Gov. Murphy should veto measure
- 01/31/2019 United Farm Workers, Indivisible WA-8, other organizations rally outside Schultz Seattle book tour stop
- 01/31/2019 Los Alamos Daily Post (NM): Udall, Carper Respond To EPA Withdrawing Proposal To Scrap Worker Protection Rules
- 01/31/2019 New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio: Is NJ minimum wage racist? Excluded farm workers think so
- 01/31/2019 The Fresh Toast: Why Unions Might Hit The Cannabis Industry Soon Enough
- 01/31/2019 InsiderNJ: United Farm Workers: ‘New Jersey minimum wage bill accepts ‘racist
- 01/30/2019 New Jersey lawmakers, governor should reject minimum wage bill because of its racist exclusion of farm workers from protections all other workers would enjoy
- 01/30/2019 VICE: Unionizing Weed Workers Are Reigniting the Labor Movement
- 01/29/2019 Capital Press: Judge hears arguments over H-2A wages
- 01/25/2019 Capitol & Main: Will Growers’ Demand for Wage Cuts Get Help From U.S. Government?
- 01/24/2019 Remembering Nan Freeman 47 years after the young Jewish woman gave her life for farm workers
- 01/24/2019 Daily Kos: Democrats sign on to legislation to put America’s undocumented farmworkers on pathway to citizenship
- 01/20/2019 He Showed Us The Way, by Cesar Chavez – April 1978, Maryknoll Magazine
- 01/19/2019 Salinas Californian: ‘Blue Card’ bill would give agricultural workers pathway to citizenship
- 01/17/2019 La Opinion: Presentan proyecto de ley que legalizaría a los trabajadores campesinos
- 01/17/2019 NBC: Feinstein Introduces Bill to Give Farmworkers ‘Blue Card’