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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.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the United Farm Workers’ bill to change how farmworkers vote in union elections. Although labor rights activists are calling the bill a step toward progress, growers are frustrated and disappointed.
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The United Farm Workers’ voting rights bill passed out of the state legislature this week. The union is now hosting 24 hour vigils throughout the state to pressure the governor to sign the bill. One of them is in downtown Fresno.
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Thousands of supporters rallied behind the marchers in the final mile of their pilgrimage. The bill they support made its way to Newsom’s desk Monday afternoon.
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As the United Farm Workers’ march made its way into Fresno County from Malaga to Calwa this week, Bishop Joseph V. Brennan of the Fresno Diocese and members of the Catholic Church walked alongside them.
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A new report from the California Institute for Rural Studies reveals food production employees worked in “life-threatening” conditions at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The United Farm Workers is among the most high-profile unions in the state, despite a decades-long struggle to grow its ranks. To get a better sense of the challenge to recruit members, we speak with Philip Martin, UC Davis professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics.
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The film follows four cousins as they make their first visit to their family’s ancestral village in Mexico.
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State agencies are partnering with community organizations across the San Joaquin Valley to inform farm workers of their rights at work. They’re taking…
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Ashlee Arteaga squats down near the pale pink blooms. I’m cutting all the roses that are already dead,” she says. The 11-year-old navigates her clippers…