Items Tagged with 'farmworker protections'

A new United Nations report underscores the grim reality that extreme heat poses for crops, livestock and farmworkers.

California may soon grant farmworkers essential access to the state stockpile of N95 respirators to distribute when wildfire smoke is hazardous.

Lawmakers are calling on Newsom to expand his universal basic income pilot program to farmworkers displaced by drought.

California’s strict COVID-19 measures have added more regulatory layers for agricultural employers dependent on the H-2A visa program for guest workers.

Lawmakers are hoping to protect vulnerable H-2A temporary guestworkers from exploitative practices by returning to two earlier legislative proposals.

Gov. Newsom returned to Fresno County on Friday to promote the administration’s efforts to bring vaccine doses to the Central Valley and to farmworkers.

NASDA has asked Acting Ag Secretary Kevin Shea for more flexibility in Special Crop Block Grants.

A coalition of social justice and community groups has issued its second report on the challenges farmworkers have faced during the pandemic.