David Bacon

A Candidate For Mixtecos in The Republican Heartland

If all the immigrant farmworkers in San Joaquin Valley agriculture could vote, Kevin McCarthy would probably not be the Congressman…

5 years ago

Gov. Newsom Vetoes Vote-By-Mail Law For Farmworkers

Senator Alex Padilla, appointed by Newsom to fill Vice-President Kamala Harris's seat, supported the bill. "As Secretary of State," he…

5 years ago

The Supreme Court’s Real Target — Farm Workers’ Organizing Rights

Most of the media coverage of the recent Supreme Court decision about the farmworker access rule took for granted the…

5 years ago

Living With Climate Change In Farmworker Communities

This rural poverty of the southern San Joaquin stands in stark contrast to the enormous wealth the labor of its…

5 years ago

In 114-Degree Heat Farmworkers Are Still At Work

A recent report by Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, "Essentially Unprotected," points out that only California,…

5 years ago

Good for Growers, Bad for Workers

There should be no question that undocumented farmworkers need and deserve legal status in this country.  They have fed us,…

5 years ago

Who’s “Taking” from Whom?

The court, and the growers, deliberately confuse the mechanism of the rule with rights, calling it a right of organizers…

5 years ago

FISHING IN THE BOHOL SEA

The net in, and the fish in buckets, they turn the prow towards Bohol's hills in the distance. In no…

5 years ago

ILWU AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA UNIONS CELEBRATE MAY DAY

The marchers without exception called on Congress to pass the PRO Act, a labor law reform bill that would penalize…

5 years ago

GUEST WORKER COVID PROTECTIONS ABANDONED – A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME

The laborers are arriving to just-relaxed COVID-19 health and safety requirements for farmworkers, courtesy of a Superior Court judge in…

5 years ago