Farmworkers

En resumen Los expertos dicen que la decisión de la Corte Suprema de restringir a los organizadores sindicales en las granjas podría tener una consecuencia no deseada: un aumento en el tráfico laboral de trabajadores agrícolas. Read this article in English.  En junio de 2018, dos inspectores locales del condado de Monterey visitaron una granja de […]

Experts say the Supreme Court decision to restrict union organizers from farms could have an unintended consequence: an increase in labor trafficking of farmworkers.

Commercial growers celebrated the Supreme Court's decision in Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid, but farmworker unions say this will make it harder for them to access workers and advocate for their rights.

A Fresno-area politician wants California to prioritize struggling San Joaquin Valley farmworkers in a proposed pilot program that would put cash in the hands of some the state’s impoverished residents. State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat from Sanger, issued a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom last week urging the state to prioritize California’s “displaced, underemployed, or unemployed […]

As harvest season approached, growers begged county officials to vaccinate their workers. But the state and counties didn’t prioritize vaccine doses for farmworkers in February. So the growers and doctors stepped in and set up their own clinics.

In publishing its annual list of "job killer" bills, the California Chamber of Commerce ignites a new phase of a perpetual political conflict.

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?

California está mejorando su subutilizado programa Vivenda para la Cosecha para proporcionar habitaciones de hotel de cuarentena para los trabajadores agrícolas, con la esperanza de que un reemplazo de salario y una opción de refugio en el hogar impulsen la participación. Pero, ¿es demasiado tarde?

Read this article in English.     Carolina NavarroAños: 34Ciudad: Condado rural de FresnoRaza / Etnia: LatinaOcupación: Trabajadora agrícola cuidando a su hijo e hija Carolina perdió el trabajo debido al COVID-19 y se atrasó en el alquiler de un remolque que comparte con su hijo y su hija. La madre soltera permanece en lista de espera para inmigrantes indocumentados que necesitan […]

About 73% of farmworkers said they would get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible, but vaccination clinics at farm worksites are still infrequent and reliant on scarce supply.