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The shattered legacy of Latino labor rights icon César Chavez has been particularly devastating among advocates who have long fought to raise awareness about sexual harassment and abuse against women farmworkers, which remains both widespread and underreported.

The United Farm Workers sued the Trump administration in November over new wage rules.

Most farmworkers in the United States today aren’t represented by labor unions, but United Farm Workers is known by many as their voice.

Fresno's Azteca Theater was the focal point of Fresno's Latino community in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, hosting Mexico's biggest film stars and a stop on Cesar Chavez's march to Sacramento in 1966.

Born in Delano, the theater group has a long legacy dramatizing the stories of those who work in California's farm fields.

In a heated exchange, Senator Kennedy told the sheriff to "read the Constitution" after he testified his deputies had arrested people who had not broken the law.

U.S. Senator Alex Padilla visited Delano on Friday to introduce a bill that would create a federal workplace heat standard. The legislation comes the same month a farmworker died in the Fresno area, reportedly after working in extreme heat.

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.

On this week’s Valley Edition: Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed $820 million to expand Medi-Cal to all undocumented Californians. Two farm workers in Riverdale say this could be life-changing. Listen to this story and more in the podcast.

On this week’s Valley Edition: A new exhibit celebrates a 1970s-era magazine that highlighted the achievements of African Americans in Fresno. We speak…