It’s a time of uncertainty in the heartland as agricultural programs are cut. “It’s very unsettling and very stressful.”
The bill would have made it easier to file heat-related workers’ compensation. A Capital & Main investigation found field safety inspections fell 30% in seven years.
In response to a Capital & Main investigation, lawmakers say more enforcement and worker education is needed.
As California regulators struggle with short staffing, farmworkers say they are denied shade and water required by law.
Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.
Incentives for cow manure methane prop up gas infrastructure — can California do better?
Low-income communities of color bear the pollution burden of California’s incentive-based dairy gas climate plan.
Why the threat to food supplies — and industrial agriculture’s role in global warming — is central to the discourse on climate change.
An historic expansion of Medi-Cal for undocumented workers will miss many farmworkers.
New laws would fight abuse by prohibiting recruiters from charging fees and better informing workers of their rights.
The governor’s stated opposition is based on a procedural point that is moot, bill supporters say.
Major overhaul of labor laws circumvented by employers, say workers and advocates.
Coast to coast, the green rush is failing Black growers and entrepreneurs.
Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first time has been delayed.
Without adequate oversight, there is little incentive for employers to protect workers during wildfire season.
As the state grapples with ongoing drought and an array of drinking water pollutants, California’s most vulnerable residents have the biggest reason to worry.
The potential remedies for the state’s drought-related problems are diverse, complicated and divisive.
Photojournalist David Bacon documents the harsh lives of farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley.
Legal observers worry a ruling against a California law could signal a willingness to undermine labor codes with ‘states’ rights’ arguments.
From the start a labor rule allowing union access to farmworkers in the field helped level the relationship between workers and growers.