OPINION William B. Gould IVGuest Columnist Assembly Bill 616 is misleadingly being portrayed as merely a way to shift farmworker union elections to mail-in ballots. In reality, the bill could deprive California farmworkers of many of their existing rights in choosing

Feature Image: Farmworkers work at a bell pepper farm in the Coachella Valley, one of the largest agricultural regions in the nation, in February 2021. (Heidi de Marco/KHN) By: SN&R Staff August 24, 2021Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on

Bart JansenUSA TODAYhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.476.0_en.html#goog_957036137 WASHINGTON – The House approved a $3.5 trillion budget blueprint Tuesday in a straight party-line vote, setting up a fall clash over the details of President Joe Biden’s proposed expansion of social programs that Republicans blasted for higher taxes

Skip Ad Editorials It shouldn’t take a 100-degree day to trigger heat protections for farmworkers Aug. 24, 2021 at 1:52 pm Updated Aug. 24, 2021 at 1:52 pm Farmworkers spread out in the shade during a lunch break at

The initiative comes at a time when cases have been steadily increasing because of the new Delta variant.Listen 03:23 By Juan Carlos ChavezPublished Aug. 20Advertisement PLANT CITY — Luis Angel Rodriguez Roque was a little bit nervous as he

Earthjustice Aug 24, 2021 Comments Facebook Twitter Email Facebook Twitter Email Print Save All food uses of chlorpyrifos will be revoked six months from the final rule’s publication in the Federal Register, which will likely happen in the coming

For workers whose jobs depend on outdoor work, a few degrees can mean the difference between life and death. By Kaiser Health News Aug 23, 2021, 5:51pm CDT | KHN Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in

By Francisco Martinez• Aug 23, 2021 ShareTweetEmail In California, pesticide regulation comes from the state Department of Pesticide Regulation, as well as each county’s local agricultural commissioner, Courtesy of California Department of Pesticide Regulation Listen Listening… 6:30 KCBX’s Francisco

Stateline Article August 23, 2021 By: Alex Brown Topics: Energy and Environment, Health & Labor Read time: 9 min Share Read Mode When American farmworkers, construction laborers and trash collectors die in extreme heat, it’s rarely because their employers

By GEORGE PLAVEN Capital Press Aug 20, 2021 0 Facebook Twitter Email Facebook Twitter Email Print Save SALEM — Farmworker advocates are so far pleased with emergency rules adopted by Oregon OSHA to protect workers from extreme heat and

By Gabe Lagarde The Country Today 17 hrs ago Facebook Twitter Email Print Save With the delta variant of COVID-19 spreading across the country, agricultural health and safety experts are telling farmers to have plans to protect their workers.

By WILLIAM GOULD IV CalMatters Aug 21, 2021 Updated Aug 21, 2021 0 Facebook Twitter Email Facebook Twitter Email Print Save Assembly Bill 616 is misleadingly being portrayed as merely a way to shift farmworker union elections to mail-in

by Guest Commentary August 20, 2021 In summary Assembly Bill 616 could deprive California farmworkers of many of their rights in choosing whether to form or join a union. The Legislature should provide for genuine mail-in balloting in farmworker

By Nadia Lopez Updated August 20, 2021 10:30 AM Duration 1:57How to prevent heat stroke. Here’s some tips from an ER doctor Arthur Jey, M.D., an emergency room doctor at Sutter Medical Center, gives tips on Monday, June 22, 2020,

By John Flesher Published 4 days ago HealthAssociated Press Facebook Twitter Print Email javascript:false WASHINGTON – The Biden administration said Wednesday it was banning the use of chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide long targeted by environmentalists, on food crops because

Enabling qualified immigrants to earn green cards satisfies the ‘Byrd rule’ By Marshall FitzPosted August 20, 2021 at 1:47pm Several months of bipartisan Senate negotiations has yielded a stalemate on broadly popular measures that would enable certain categories of qualified immigrants

Julia Shipley, Brian Edwards, David NickersonRobert Benincasa, Stella M. Chávez, and Cheryl ThompsonNPRAug 19Save Article Facebook TwitterEmailCopy LinkFarmworker Cruz Urias Beltran, 52, died of heatstroke in a cornfield near Cairo, Neb., in July 2018. OSHA found that the “moderate

Miranda Green and Heidi de MarcoKaiser Health NewsSKIPhttps://imasdk.googleapis.com/js/core/bridge3.476.0_en.html#goog_1122373876about:blank Leoncio Antonio Trejo Galdamez, 58, died in his son’s arms on June 29 after spending the day laying irrigation pipes in Thermal. News of his death reverberated through the largely Latino

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on Wednesday a plan to ban chlorpyrifos–a common pesticide used on crops including corn, soybeans, apple, broccoli, asparagus, and other common produce. Even though studies have connected the pesticide introduced in 1965 to neurological damage

ByKaren Graham Published August 19, 2021 Farmers have been spraying chlorpyrifos on crops, including strawberries, apples, citrus, broccoli, and corn since 1965. Photo courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service., Public Domain EPA delivered the final death blow to

By Industry Press Release August 19, 2021 Contact Information – EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will stop the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on all food to better protect human health, particularly

By Rich Haridy August 19, 2021 Facebook Twitter Flipboard LinkedIn After almost 15 years of legal wrangling the EPA has now banned chlorpyrifos from agricultural uses in the United Statesphotokostic/Depositphotos View 1 Images After years of lengthy court battles the

The agency will reverse a Trump-era decision to keep chlorpyrifos, one of the most common pesticides, in use. By Coral DavenportAug. 18, 2021 WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Wednesday that it is banning a common pesticide, widely

Reversing a Trump administration ruling that allowed continued use of the toxic child-brain damaging chemical chloryprifos, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today banned its use on food. But today’s decision does not eliminate risks posed by non-food uses of

Thursday, August 19 2021 Liam cole 15 hours ago 1 minute read Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Tumblr Pinterest Reddit VKontakte Odnoklassniki Pocket The Biden administration said Wednesday it was banning use of chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide long targeted by