Luis Jimenez and Lisa Zucker 9 hrs ago Facebook Twitter Email Print This Thanksgiving, as you pass the mashed potatoes, dig into that second piece of pumpkin pie or pour yourself a glass of milk, please take a moment
The Buffalo News: Another Voice: Wage board needs to lower overtime threshold for farm workers
JD Supra: Washington Supreme Court Grants Overtime Protections to Dairy Workers Under the State Constitution
November 25, 2020 LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Send Embed In a 5-4 decision, a divided Washington Supreme Court ruled that dairy workers are entitled to overtime pay under Washington law if they work more than 40 hours a week, nullifying
HuffPost: Watch How Your Thanksgiving Food Is Grown, And Humanize The Farm Workers Behind It
U.S. NEWS 11/25/2020 11:38 pm ET “Now, as winter approaches, they’ll keep working amid the rain, mud, and cold,” United Farm Workers said as the nation prepares to tuck into the festive season. By Nick Visser America’s largest union
MSNBC: Chris Hayes: This Is What Essential Work Looks Like
MSNBC 3.82M subscribers “As we sit down for Thanksgiving this week, a lot of us, thanks to the pandemic, are farther from our families than we would like. But while we prepare smaller meals this year, it is important
Lifehacker: Learn How Farmers Produce Ingredients for Your Favorite Thanksgiving Dishes
Elizabeth YukoYesterday 9:00AM•Filed to:Holidays21 Every few years, a new study or news segment comes out demonstrating how kids today are so disconnected from their food, they aren’t able to recognize even the most basic fruits and vegetables. As adults,
Atlas Obcura: Celebrate the Farm Workers Behind Your Favorite Thanksgiving Sides
Favorite Thanksgiving Sides Organizers are using mesmerizing video clips of harvests to advocate for better protections and pay. by Reina Gattuso November 25, 2020 Celebrate the Farm Workers Behind Your Favorite Thanksgiving Sides Agricultural workers have been classified as
TODAY: Viral Twitter thread shows the skillful farm work behind your Thanksgiving dinner
#ThankAFarmworker aims to raise awareness about the labor that goes into harvesting the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinners across the country. While your Thanksgiving might look a little different this year, the work that goes into harvesting the ingredients in
CNN: See what farm workers do to get your favorite holiday meals on the table
See what farm workers do to get your favorite holiday meals on the table Your Thanksgiving meals wouldn’t be the same without ingredients like Brussels sprouts, radishes, onions and celery. But the work necessary to get those foods to
Pop Sugar: These Tweets Reveal Just How Much Hard Work Goes Into Your Thanksgiving Dinner
Thanksgiving: Farmworkers Are the Holiday’s Unsung Heroes Nov 23 2020 by Chanel Vargas 615 Before we dig into that roast turkey and mountain of mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving, we want to take a moment to thank the dedicated agricultural
KCTV 5 News: Organizations feed farmworkers for the Thanksgiving holiday
By Kyla Linville Posted 13 hrs ago 0 Facebook Twitter Email Print Save Click here for updates on this story SALINAS, CA (KSBW) — One thousand food boxes were distributed to farmworkers and their families in Salinas Monday afternoon.
The Desert Sun: New California campaign aims to inform farmworkers about labor rights amid COVID-19 pandemic
Rebecca PlevinPalm Springs Desert SunSKIP As farmworkers picked the chard, kale and beets that Americans will eat on Thanksgiving Day, a truck blaring a recorded message pulled up to an eastern Coachella Valley field. “If you or someone close
The Bakersfield Californian: UFW Foundation calls for prioritizing farmworkers in COVID-19 vaccinations
BY JOHN COX jcox@bakersfield.com 5 hrs ago Facebook Twitter Email Facebook Twitter Email Print Save The head of the United Farm Workers Foundation, while announcing Tuesday the organization had been named to a state committee helping guide the rollout
The San Joaquin Valley Sun: Chavez pushes for Valley to receive coronavirus vaccine first
Alex Tavlian4 hours ago Facebook Twitter Print As two American-developed vaccines appear primed for Federal Drug Administration approval and rollout, Valley leaders are pushing state officials to expedite deployment of the inoculations. Tuesday, Fresno City Council member Luis Chavez
Mashable: A reminder to #ThankAFarmworker for harvesting your Thanksgiving meal
By Chase DiBenedetto1 day ago Where do Thanksgiving foods come from? No, not the grocery store. Well, thanks to a Twitter campaign by United Farm Workers (UFW), you can now learn what it takes to supply America’s grocery stores
Daily Kos: ‘Putting their lives at risk’: Coalition urges farmworkers be prioritized for COVID-19 vaccine
Gabe Ortiz Daily Kos Staff Monday November 23, 2020 · 10:38 AM PST Recommend 105 Tweet 34 Comments 34 New RSS PUBLISHED TO Gabe Ortíz LatinoKos Daily Kos TAGS Farms FarmWorkers Immigration UndocumentedImmigrants UFWFoundation Coronavirus COVID19 Share this article
KUOW News and Information: With overtime ruling, farmworkers gain legal protections long enjoyed by other industries
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The Batavian: Ag groups ask Cuomo to make 60-hour overtime threshold law permanent for farmworkers
posted by Press Release in business, agriculture, Farm Laborer Fair Labor Practices Act, Farm Laborers Wage Board. Press release: A diverse group of agricultural organizations in the state are calling on the 60-hour overtime threshold for farm laborers to
NBC Palm Springs: New outreach campaign educates farming community about workers’ rights
Local New outreach campaign educates farming community about workers’ rights Olivia Sandusky November 23, 2020 5:45 PM Over 4,000 farm workers have tested positive for coronavirus in Riverside County. Farming communities in the Coachella Valley face higher exposure to
The Californian: Monterey County advocates, growers urge renewed focus on farmworker housing
Kate CiminiSalinas Californian How do you think the community can improve and increase housing in Monterey County? What are some ways you’d like to see local regulations change to grow housing in this area? The following responses were submitted by
CAL Matters: Do California ag counties hold solutions to Monterey County farmworker housing crisis?
by Kate Cimini November 23, 2020 Lea este artículo en español. In 2019, Monterey County sold more than five billion dollars worth of agricultural products, from cannabis to strawberries to leaf lettuce. It is, by far, the largest industry in
UFW & UFW Foundation applaud ‘historic’ Biden nomination of Mayorkas as first Latino head DHS
United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero and UFW Foundation Executive Director Diana Tellefson Torres issued the following statement on President-elect Joe Biden’s pick of Alejandro Mayorkas as secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS): The United Farm
Chanel 3 News: TODEC launching new outreach campaign to protect farmworkers amid pandemic
A new outreach campaign is being launched on Monday to protect local farm workers during the pandemic. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office and TODEC Legal Center are spearheading the campaign, which is set to launch at 11 a.m. in
Fast Company: Watch the mind-blowing skills of the farmworkers harvesting your Thanksgiving dinner
The United Farm Workers shared a series of videos of their members at work. They’re mesmerizing. More Like ThisThis Gates-backed, MIT-based biotech company solves a key vaccination problemThe real reason your company might not do COVID testing: The costCorporate
LA Progressive: Will Roberts Court Undo Farmworker Union Rights?
FacebookTwitterPinterestRedditShare The access regulation allows union organizers to come onto a grower’s property in the morning before work to talk with workers. Not long before Donald Trump’s election in 2016, the Pacific Legal Foundation filed suit against California’s farmworker
Salon: Tyson Foods managers bet on how many of their workers would get COVID-19, lawsuit alleges
“This is depraved,” United Farm Workers said in a Twitter thread By Kenny Stancil November 21, 2020 9:39PM (UTC) A nurse checks a patient in a temporary hospital for the COVID-19 patients set up in a gymnasium in Wuhan in central