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A Democrat lawmaker from the central San Joaquin Valley wants to put cash in the hands of eligible farmworkers to help them deal with the devastation of California’s drought. Proposed by State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat from Sanger, Senate Bill 1066 would allocate $20 million to create the California Farmworkers...
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Latinos play a critical role in the US farmworker industry, from fighting and advocating for better treatment of migrant workers, to harvesting the produce that comes to our table every day. Our farmers are an underrepresented community and have faced all kinds of difficulties in their work, especially during...
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Tens of thousands of California’s guest farmworkers and U.S. farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022, which advocates say comes thanks to their lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze. The wage increase is based on the USDA’s annual survey findings on farm labor, released on Nov. 24. The survey...
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Decenas de miles de trabajadores agrícolas invitados de California y trabajadores agrícolas estadounidenses verán aumentos salariales en 2022, lo que, según los defensores, se debe a su demanda para detener la congelación salarial de la era Trump. El aumento salarial se basa en los resultados de la encuesta anual del...
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SEATTLE – La Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU. Aprobó la Ley de Modernización de la Fuerza Laboral Agrícola, que establece un camino hacia la ciudadanía para los trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes, pero algunos grupos que representan a los trabajadores dicen que pondría demasiado poder en manos de la industria...
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SEATTLE — The U.S. House has passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, setting up a path to citizenship for immigrant farmworkers, but some groups representing workers say it would put too much power into the hands of the agriculture industry. If the bill passes, workers with at least a decade...
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Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services Además de estar peligrosamente expuestos al contagio de la COVID-19, los trabajadores agrícolas en California han experimentado como pocos los reveses de esta pandemia: pérdida de ingresos y de empleo, costos repentinos de cuidado infantil debido al cierre de escuelas, problemas con el aprendizaje...
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Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services In addition to high-risk exposure to COVID-19, farmworkers in California have borne the brunt of setbacks caused by the pandemic: loss of income and employment, sudden childcare costs due to school closings, problems with distance learning due to poor or zero Internet access, food...
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A Democrat lawmaker from the central San Joaquin Valley wants to put cash in the hands of eligible farmworkers to help them deal with the devastation of California’s drought. Proposed by State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, a Democrat from Sanger, Senate Bill 1066 would allocate $20 million to create the California Farmworkers...
Latinos play a critical role in the US farmworker industry, from fighting and advocating for better treatment of migrant workers, to harvesting the produce that comes to our table every day. Our farmers are an underrepresented community and have faced all kinds of difficulties in their work, especially during...
Tens of thousands of California’s guest farmworkers and U.S. farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022, which advocates say comes thanks to their lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze. The wage increase is based on the USDA’s annual survey findings on farm labor, released on Nov. 24. The survey...
Decenas de miles de trabajadores agrícolas invitados de California y trabajadores agrícolas estadounidenses verán aumentos salariales en 2022, lo que, según los defensores, se debe a su demanda para detener la congelación salarial de la era Trump. El aumento salarial se basa en los resultados de la encuesta anual del...
SEATTLE – La Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU. Aprobó la Ley de Modernización de la Fuerza Laboral Agrícola, que establece un camino hacia la ciudadanía para los trabajadores agrícolas inmigrantes, pero algunos grupos que representan a los trabajadores dicen que pondría demasiado poder en manos de la industria...
Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services Además de estar peligrosamente expuestos al contagio de la COVID-19, los trabajadores agrícolas en California han experimentado como pocos los reveses de esta pandemia: pérdida de ingresos y de empleo, costos repentinos de cuidado infantil debido al cierre de escuelas, problemas con el aprendizaje...
Jenny Manrique Ethnic Media Services In addition to high-risk exposure to COVID-19, farmworkers in California have borne the brunt of setbacks caused by the pandemic: loss of income and employment, sudden childcare costs due to school closings, problems with distance learning due to poor or zero Internet access, food...
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