Posts Tagged ‘farm worker’
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November 2, 2009
A painful way to make a living, but for some migrants, little choice – farm workers in Ohio
October 17, 2009
CULTURAL DIVIDE: Migrant students find hard time fitting in – Every year, migrant workers and their families travel from Texas to Manchester’s DuRussel Potato Farm to harvest vegetables, living in housing provided by the farm personnel. – Minnesota
October 2, 2009
A pilot program in North Carolina has been launched to protect the life and health of U.S. migrant and seasonal farm worker children, many of whom are Hispanic.
September 15, 2009
Cool Life magazine photo archive of migrant workers via Google Images
September 11, 2009
Chipotle Reaches Agreement with Florida Tomato Grower to Improve Wages for Farm Workers – will receive an additional penny per pound, a wage increase of 64% – (does this sound okay to you?)
September 9, 2009
New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. (D-Bronx) held a press conference on Tuesday to cast a spotlight on rights violations against farm workers
September 1, 2009
Justice for Latino Farmers
Trabajadores agrícolas: los nuevos esclavos – Farmworkers are the New Slaves
August 27, 2009
Commissioner Constance Barker of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought her campaign against sexual assaults on female Hispanic migrant farm workers to Birmingham on Wednesday.
August 25, 2009
State agency hears testimony on treatment of farm workers – Michigan
August 24, 2009
He toiled in California’s farm fields alongside his Mexican migrant worker parents and didn’t learn English until he was 12. Now Jose Hernandez, NASA astronaut, is about to rocket into orbit.
August 16, 2009
Migrant camps morph into communities – Housing complexes for farm laborers and other workers are shedding their old patterns and stigmas. – Idaho
Hundreds of farm workers in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur are being exploited by employers who trick them into believing they are in the United States and keep them in line with threats of deportation
August 4, 2009
California steps up efforts to prevent heat-related deaths among farmworkers
July 21, 2009
Pregnant farm workers exposed to pesticide drift while harvesting organic onions
July 20, 2009
Thieves Continue to Target Migrant Farm Workers in Lowndes County – Florida
May 29, 2009
LABOR SECRETARY HILDA SOLIS REVERSES BUSH’S ATTACK ON FARMWORKER LABOR LAWS – Groups applaud the suspension of a policy that slashes wages, worker protections
May 28, 2009
The children of Hispanic migrant farm workers in a sparsely populated area of central Florida finally have access to a pre-school and can now dream of becoming doctors, teachers or nurses. – Mulberry, Florida
April 27, 2009
A federal judge has awarded about $235,000 to more than 600 Latino farm workers who accused a farm labor contractor and two Yakima Valley growers of violating federal labor laws.
February 20, 2009
Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes -If you have eaten a tomato this winter, chances are very good that it was picked by a person (a Latino) who lives in virtual slavery.
January 28, 2009
The growing number of indigenous people — especially as farm workers — has caught the attention of the federal government, which has made changes to the National Agricultural Workers Survey to get a better picture of the indigenous population here.
December 2, 2008
Determinants of Health Insurance Status for Children of Latino Immigrant and Other US Farm Workers – Findings From the National Agricultural Workers Survey
October 27, 2008
Who will pick the crops? North Olympic Peninsula farmers lament lack of migrant workers
October 23, 2008
Website chronicles farm workers’ rights fight by Cesar Chavez
August 17, 2008
Why have California legislators allowed a sixth farm worker since May to die of heat stroke?
