Farmworker Justice, Pesticide Action & Agroecology Network (PAN) North America, and Center for Food Safety challenged the ...

For New York Democrats, occupying the governor’s mansion and controlling both houses of the state Legislature was like looking for El Dorado, a goal that often proved elusive but kept their sights ...

A worker follows a raisin harvesting machine at a farm near Fresno in this 2021 photo. (ERIC PAUL ZAMORA/[email protected]) After months of anxiety over the possibility that mass deportations ...

Stanislaus County struggles to fill 10 farmworker seats on new advisory board. Fear of retaliation and lack of community trust deter farmworker applications. Organizers urge outreach in safe spaces to ...

Senator Rebecca Saldaña (D-Seattle) expressed her deep concern over the detention of Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez, a prominent farm worker and labor rights advocate, in a news release. The 25-year-old Juarez ...

Farmworker wages rose 3.2% nationally this year from 2023, according to an American Farm Bureau Foundation analysis of USDA’s Farm Labor Survey, which is used to set H-2A minimum wage rates. In 2024, ...

The minimum wage that farms are required to pay workers with H-2A visas - those who come from other countries for temporary agricultural work - continues to vex both producer and farmworker ...

Wearing sunglasses and a straw hat, Lourdes Cárdenas began the 24-day ‘March for the Governor’s Signature’ at Forty Acres near Delano on Aug. 3, 2022. JUAN ESPARZA LOERA [email protected] ...

This week, with the help of a translator, a woman named Ruby gave Oregon lawmakers a list of reasons why it was important to support a plan to give farmworkers overtime pay. She spoke of returning to ...

A US farmworker who caught bird flu after working with dairy cattle in Texas appears to be the first known case of mammal-to-human transmission of the virus, a new study shows. The dairy worker sought ...

A GoFundMe for a farmworker who died from injuries he reportedly sustained during a federal immigration raid near Camarillo has raised more than double its $50,000 goal. The farmworker was identified ...

They fell for one another in junior high school, in a village deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre range. Within a few years, the young couple had crossed the border and found jobs pruning grapes in a ...