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|News Coverage
- 05/08/2020 LA Times: Most California voters back coronavirus protections for undocumented farmworkers, poll finds
- 05/07/2020 One News Page: UFW helps deliver meals to Delano farm worker families
- 05/06/2020 KGET 17: World Central Kitchen And UFW Donates Drive Thru Meals To Field Workers in Delano
- 05/06/2020 The New York Times: A Former Farmworker on American Hypocrisy
- 05/05/2020 YakTriNews KAPP-KVEW: Farm workers’ unions fighting for ‘enforceable rules’ for workplace COVID-19 precautions
- 05/04/2020 New York Daily News: The New York The hands that feed us: Protect New York’s farmworkers from coronavirus, too
- 05/01/2020 Grist: Study: Rising temperatures will double the risk to farmworkers in the coming decades
- 04/30/2020 The New York Times: Why the People Harvesting Californians’ Food Can’t Afford It
- 04/30/2020 KPFA – 94.1FM: UFW President Teresa Romero on Farmworkers and COVID19
- 04/29/2020 KERO 23ABC News: UFW helps deliver 4,000 meals to farm worker families in Delano
- 04/29/2020 KERO 23ABC News: World Central Kitchen, farm worker movement to distribute meals for farm worker families
- 04/29/2020 Bloomberg: Front-Line Food Workers Agonize: Risk Illness on Job or Go Broke
- 04/29/2020 National Geographic: ‘I can be the person helping.’ On the frontlines with America’s essential workers
- 04/24/2020 Ventura County Star: Espinosa: COVID-19 impacts most vulnerable
- 04/24/2020 The Spokesman-Review: Tests of workers at Central Washington orchard finds dozens of COVID-19 cases without symptoms
- 04/23/2020 CNN: Trouble in farm country because of Covid-19
- 04/22/2020 Civil Eats: Change to Federal Rule Could Expose More Farmworkers to Pesticides
- 04/21/2020 NBC Bay Area: Immigration Advocates Slam President’s Plan to Suspend Immigration to the U.S.
- 04/20/2020 PBS NewsHour: How the COVID-19 pandemic is sending American agriculture into chaos
- 04/20/2020 Yakima Herald: Yakima Health District reports 70 COVID cases in agriculture industry
- 04/19/2020 The Seatle Times: As coronavirus cases in Yakima Valley agriculture spike, advocates for growers and workers react differently to new state guidelines
- 04/18/2020 Mother Jones: As Growing Season Ramps Up, “Essential” Farmworkers Are Still Largely Unprotected
- 04/17/2020 MSN.com: Farm worker unions sue Washington state for safer work conditions due to coronavirus
- 04/17/2020 Eater Seatle: Farmworkers Unions Sue Washington State Over Lack of Adequate COVID-19 Protections
- 04/16/2020 CBS San Francisco: Coronavirus Update: California To Provide Supplemental Paid Sick Leave For Food Sector Workers