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Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services As this year’s polarized election cycle continues, anti-immigrant rhetoric grows ever uglier, with life-altering consequences for farmworkers in California. Between half and one-third of all farmworkers in the U.S. live in California alone. That’s between 500,000 and 800,000 farmworkers. These immigrants working to put...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters It took years for CalVans to get its vehicles on the road legally. The Central Valley transit agency, conceived after a 1999 crash that killed 13 farmworkers, leases strictly monitored vehicles to workers and employers to form vanpools. It gives thousands of laborers a safe way...
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Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services Estamos a finales de febrero y la carretera que lleva a Hamilton City, una comunidad agrícola situada a unos 16 kilómetros al oeste de Chico, está flanqueada por almendros en flor, cuyas flores rosas cubren los campos a kilómetros de distancia. En el centro...
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Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services HAMILTON CITY, Calif. – It’s late February and the road to Hamilton City, an agricultural community about 10 miles west of Chico, is lined with blooming almond trees, their pink blossoms blanketing the fields for miles around. A single clinic stands in the center...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Los legisladores de California se están volviendo más duros con las agencias laborales del estado y también con los empleadores. La presidenta del Comité Laboral de la Asamblea, Liz Ortega , dijo que buscará una auditoría de la agencia de seguridad laboral Cal/OSHA después de escuchar...
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Jeanne Kuang CalMatters California lawmakers are getting tougher on the state’s labor agencies to get tougher on employers. Assembly Labor Committee Chairperson Liz Ortega said today she’ll seek an audit of the workplace safety agency Cal/OSHA after hearing dozens of farmworkers and their advocates describe harsh working conditions, including extreme heat and pesticide exposure....
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Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services HALF MOON BAY, Ca. – Residents and public officials gathered in Half Moon Bay on Sunday January 21 for a memorial marking the one-year anniversary of a shooting that claimed the lives of seven farmworkers. The event came on the heels of another shooting...
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Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
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Los trabajadores latinos forman la columna vertebral de la industria agrícola estadounidense. Sin ellos, no podríamos comer. Sin ellos, nuestros sistemas alimenticios más grandes se derrumbarían. Pero los trabajadores agrícolas ganan “mucho menos que incluso algunos de los trabajadores peor pagados de la fuerza laboral de los Estados Unidos”,...
Selen Ozturk Ethnic Media Services As this year’s polarized election cycle continues, anti-immigrant rhetoric grows ever uglier, with life-altering consequences for farmworkers in California. Between half and one-third of all farmworkers in the U.S. live in California alone. That’s between 500,000 and 800,000 farmworkers. These immigrants working to put...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters It took years for CalVans to get its vehicles on the road legally. The Central Valley transit agency, conceived after a 1999 crash that killed 13 farmworkers, leases strictly monitored vehicles to workers and employers to form vanpools. It gives thousands of laborers a safe way...
Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services Estamos a finales de febrero y la carretera que lleva a Hamilton City, una comunidad agrícola situada a unos 16 kilómetros al oeste de Chico, está flanqueada por almendros en flor, cuyas flores rosas cubren los campos a kilómetros de distancia. En el centro...
Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services HAMILTON CITY, Calif. – It’s late February and the road to Hamilton City, an agricultural community about 10 miles west of Chico, is lined with blooming almond trees, their pink blossoms blanketing the fields for miles around. A single clinic stands in the center...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Los legisladores de California se están volviendo más duros con las agencias laborales del estado y también con los empleadores. La presidenta del Comité Laboral de la Asamblea, Liz Ortega , dijo que buscará una auditoría de la agencia de seguridad laboral Cal/OSHA después de escuchar...
Jeanne Kuang CalMatters California lawmakers are getting tougher on the state’s labor agencies to get tougher on employers. Assembly Labor Committee Chairperson Liz Ortega said today she’ll seek an audit of the workplace safety agency Cal/OSHA after hearing dozens of farmworkers and their advocates describe harsh working conditions, including extreme heat and pesticide exposure....
Peter Schurmann Ethnic Media Services HALF MOON BAY, Ca. – Residents and public officials gathered in Half Moon Bay on Sunday January 21 for a memorial marking the one-year anniversary of a shooting that claimed the lives of seven farmworkers. The event came on the heels of another shooting...
Nicole Foy CalMatters As Fresno-area temperatures sizzled around 100 recently, a 59-year-old tomatillo field worker collapsed and died. The coroner listed the cause of death as cardiovascular disease caused by cholesterol buildup; the farmworkers’ union blamed it on working in such heat. “Elidio Hernández should not have died,” said...
Los trabajadores latinos forman la columna vertebral de la industria agrícola estadounidense. Sin ellos, no podríamos comer. Sin ellos, nuestros sistemas alimenticios más grandes se derrumbarían. Pero los trabajadores agrícolas ganan “mucho menos que incluso algunos de los trabajadores peor pagados de la fuerza laboral de los Estados Unidos”,...
