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Category: Farmworkers

California is modifying the Housing for the Harvest program for farmworkers who have tested positive for COVID-19 by offering up to $1,000 in cash assistance, as well as allowing farmworkers to shelter at home, to boost participation. The expansion will launch in April for most counties. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Newsom doubles down on sheltering farmworkers despite few takers

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts March 24, 2021March 24, 2021

California is upgrading its underutilized Housing for the Harvest program to provide quarantine hotel rooms for farmworkers, in the hopes that a wage replacement and an option to shelter at home will boost participation. But is it too late?

Vehicles including Foster Farms trucks enter and exit the Foster Farms facility located at 1000 Davis Street in Livingston, on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Photo by Andrew Kuhn, Merced Sun-Star
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Fresno health inspectors tipped off Foster Farms about state inspection amid outbreak

by Manuela Tobias March 18, 2021March 18, 2021
A fieldworker wearing a hat with the golden eagle, the official bird of Mexico, as he uses it to shield his face from the sun while he picks strawberries on Saturday, April 25, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Farmworkers say employers, Cal/OSHA don’t enforce COVID-19 safety regulations

by Kate Cimini February 2, 2021February 3, 2021
Farmworkers around the Watsonville community pick strawberries as the Watsonville Campesino Appreciation Caravan passes through on Tuesday, May 5, 2020. Today, Gov. Newsom announced a new housing program for farmworkers that will provide hotel rooms for those who need to isolate due to COVID-19. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian
Posted inEconomy

New law in 1 minute: California offers tax credits to some undocumented workers

Jackie Botts by Nick Roberts and Jackie Botts December 31, 2020December 31, 2020
Maria Reyes, who tested positive for COVID-19, quarantines at her home in Mendota on Dec. 12, 2020. Reyes declined a hotel room with Housing for the Harvest out of concern she would have to leave her teenage daughter. Photo by Gary Kazanjian
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Why few farmworkers isolate in California’s free COVID-19 hotel rooms

Jackie BottsAvatar by Jackie Botts, Kate Cimini and Georgia Gee December 19, 2020December 21, 2020
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Fresno County tracks COVID-19 outbreaks at workplaces. Why keep it secret?

by Manuela Tobias December 11, 2020December 14, 2020
Health care workers wait to offer COVID-19 testing at Cristo Rey Church Friday afternoon, Nov. 20, 2020 in Malaga, south of Fresno. Photo by Eric Zamora, The Fresno Bee
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Deep distrust: Why few farmworkers show up for COVID-19 testing

by Manuela Tobias November 25, 2020November 30, 2020
A bus parked in front of El Dorado Motel drops off farmworkers as a van that also transports farmworkers drives right next to it in Salinas on Aug. 1, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian
Posted inCalifornia Divide

State mandates emergency workplace COVID-19 protections, less crowding for guest farmworkers

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts November 19, 2020December 18, 2020
Social Distancing rules meant to protect against the transmission of COVID-19, in English and Spanish, displayed at the entrance to a commercial construction site in Sunnyvale on May 10, 2020. California does not make workplace COVID-19 case data available to the public. Photo by Andrei Stanescu via iStock
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Oregon posts workplace outbreaks, California has no such plan

by Laurence Du Sault November 11, 2020November 12, 2020
Guadelupe Sanchez, an employee at a McDonald's restaurant in San Leandro, led a caravan of essential workers at the fast food company from two San Jose locations as they chanted, held signs and honked as they circled a Hayward location to demand wage increases and more personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Dylan Bouscher, Bay Area News Group
Posted inCalifornia Divide

What Cal/OSHA has — and hasn’t — been doing for workers?

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts and Manuela Tobias October 30, 2020November 5, 2020

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