News and Events

11/14/2018 ThinkProgress: California’s farmworkers are still working despite deadly wildfires
11/14/2018 Salinas Californian: Fresh Harvest reaches settlement over farm worker transportation pay
11/14/2018 Agprofessional.com: Fines Proposed Over Farmworker’s Death in Sweltering Heat
11/14/2018 Salinas Californian: Fresh Harvest reaches settlement over farm worker transportation pay
11/14/2018 ThinkProgress: California’s farmworkers are still working despite deadly wildfires
11/14/2018 NTV(NB): OSHA cites company in excessive heat death of detasseler
11/13/2018 Omaha World-Herald: OSHA proposes $11641 penalty for heat-related death near Grand Island
11/13/2018 Farm Workers Excited about Possibility of Speaker Pelosi
11/12/2018 Remezcla.com: As Fires Rage on in California, Many Farmworkers Are Working in Hazardous Conditions
11/10/2018 Kerry Kennedy, RFK’s daughter, moved during 50-year anniversary of farm workers medical plan named for her father at East San Jose church tied to history of Chavez & Kennedy
11/08/2018 Register Pajaronian (CA): UFW mainstay Don Adán Ramirez dies
11/08/2018 Los Angeles Times: Appeals court rules against Trump on DACA immigrant policy
11/07/2018 Mourning Don Adan, an ‘unsung hero’ who ‘gave himself totally from his heart to the UFW’
11/05/2018 PUBLICINTEGRITY.ORG: Tragic immigrant deaths fuel drive to ‘flip’ California GOP congressional district
11/03/2018 Los Angeles Times: ‘We are tired of being attacked’: Farmworkers and immigrant rights activists make a final push to flip the House
11/02/2018 New York Times: A few days later, it was off to Salinas for a tour of a mushroom farm with members of the powerful United Farm Workers
10/30/2018 NPR: Paul Ryan Dismisses Trump Plan To Void Birthright Citizenship Law By Executive Order
10/30/2018 The Hill: Graham to introduce legislation to end birthright citizenship
10/30/2018 Washington Post: Trump’s proposal to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional
10/29/2018 Times of San Diego: Opinion: H-2A Visa Reform Needed to Protect Migrant Farm Workers
10/29/2018 Washington Post: ‘He is not welcome here’: Thousands support Pittsburgh Jewish leaders calling on Trump to ‘denounce white nationalism’
10/26/2018 Salon: Our food system is built on exploitation. Now farmworkers are saying “no more”
10/26/2018 Register Pajaronian (CA): Sen. Feinstein visits Monterey Mushrooms
10/26/2018 Monterey County Herald (CA): Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Jimmy Panetta visit Monterey Mushrooms
10/26/2018 Monterey Herald: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Rep. Jimmy Panetta visit Monterey Mushrooms