farmworkers

California Providing Free Legal Services For Undocumented Farmworkers

This new pilot program looks to prevent the exploitation of undocumented farmworkers by providing additional tools for California labor enforcement…

2 years ago

Photo Essay: A Cooperative Farm’s Long Path to Liberation for Farmworkers

A young chilacoyote seedling in a Tierra y Libertad greenhouse. On the Sakuma Brothers farm, over two hundred angry Mixtec…

2 years ago

No Papers?  Lose Your Home!

USDA and Housing Authorities could follow the process established in employment law, where reverification is barred once the original documents…

2 years ago

Ill Harvest In Rural California, Farmworkers Fend For Themselves For Health Care

Where government and health care institutions are absent, some communities turn to grassroots action. Capital and Main https://capitalandmain.com/in-rural-california-farmworkers-fend-for-themselves-for-health-care Carmen Hernandez…

3 years ago

Why Farmworker Legalization Failed

For farmworkers, real change requires a much larger base of organized workers. Today, less than 1 percent of the farm…

3 years ago

Exhibition: Two Years Of Heat And COVID In The San Joaquin Valley

This exhibition presents this complex reality through documentary photographs taken in the course of the pandemic and the past two…

3 years ago

Gov. Newsom Finally Signs Law Expanding Farmworker Union Rights

AB 2183 by Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) creates new ways for farmworkers to vote in a union election, including…

3 years ago

Will Gov. Newsom Sign two Bills Strengthening “Guest Worker” Rights?

AB 857 would require recruiters and employers to notify workers, in Spanish and in writing, about those protections. It also…

3 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…

4 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…

4 years ago