farmworkers

The vast majority of the country’s table grapes are grown right here in the San Joaquin Valley. But this year, a freak summer storm took a big bite out of that production.

Investigations are underway after a Bakersfield farmworker was killed while on the job in Santa Barbara County.

Farmworkers in central California have worked through extreme heat, wildfires and extreme rain periods, but gaps in health care access have placed them in an even more precarious position.

Farmworking families allege intimidation and questions over immigration status, forcing some families to leave at least two centers in Farmersville and Woodville.

January’s rains flooded farm fields and orchards. Many California farmworkers lost weeks of pay. Advocates say the state should help them weather such crises. A leading proposal would pay $300 a week to undocumented workers.

The law gives farmworkers new options to vote to unionize beyond at physical polling places. Proponents say it will help protect workers from union-busting and other intimidation.

Farmworkers from across the state have set off on a 335-mile trek to Sacramento to show support for a voting rights bill

As drought continues to hammer the state, advocates are sounding the alarm for what they think could be the collapse of the San Joaquin Valley’s agriculture workforce.

The state rarely penalized employers for breaking the rules under Douglas Parker, who now leads the federal agency charged with ensuring worker safety, according to an investigation by KQED and The California Newsroom.

A new report from researchers and community-based organizations released Monday shows Indigenous farmworkers across California lacked information and…