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Tag: ca-divide-farmworkers

Farmworkers work on a field outside of Bakersfield in Kern County on July 25 2023. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local
Posted inCalifornia Divide

After farmworker’s death in Fresno-area heat, UFW and Sen. Padilla say it’s time for stronger protections at work

Avatar photo by Nicole Foy August 18, 2023August 21, 2023

U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla and the United Farm Workers union say a recent death in a tomatillo field was due to heat, but a coroner’s report doesn’t back that up.

Michelle Hackett at the entrance to Riverview Farms in Salinas that flooded in the mid-March storms. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters
Posted inEconomy

As emergency aid flows to flooded-out Californians, will thousands get the help they need?

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Lauren Hepler, Nicole Foy and Wendy Fry March 15, 2023March 28, 2023
Farmworkers harvest romaine lettuce in King City in 2017. Photo by Lucy Nicholson, Reuters
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Study says California employers fail to keep food, farm workers safe from COVID

by Lil Kalish July 7, 2022July 11, 2022
Anthony Torres loads a vehicle with food at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank at Franklin D. Roosevelt Park in Los Angeles on March 23, 2021. Photo by Mike Blake, REUTERS
Posted inCalifornia Divide

California’s plan to provide food assistance to undocumented residents leaves some out

Avatar photo by Melissa Montalvo and Jeanne Kuang June 14, 2022April 19, 2023
A farmworker works on land irrigated by sprinklers in El Centro on May 29, 2020. REUTERS/Bing Guan
Posted inCalifornia Divide

Cash for farmworkers? Newsom vetoes $20 million drought aid bill

by Melissa Montalvo April 25, 2022September 30, 2022
Farmworker Inocencio Cortez joins the rally in downtown Fresno on Cesar Chavez Day to help urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign the Ag Labor Voting Choice Act, providing more choices in how farm workers can vote in their union elections. March 31, 2022. Photo by John Walker/The Fresno Bee
Posted inCalifornia Divide

California farmworkers march to ask Newsom to sign voting bill

by Melissa Montalvo April 1, 2022April 1, 2022
Posted inCalifornia Divide

California still won’t make COVID-19 workplace outbreaks public

by Melissa Montalvo September 27, 2021September 27, 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
Posted inCalifornia Divide

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

Avatar photo by Manuela Tobias December 11, 2020December 14, 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

Avatar photo by Jackie Botts November 19, 2020April 19, 2023

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