‘Unprecedented’ Lawsuit May Roll Back Farmworker Union Wins From 2023
From today’s Sacramento Bee: A Kern County decision handed down earlier this month could be the first step in an industry-wide effort to overturn a 2023 California law making it…
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Bill Expanding Undocumented Farm Workers’ Rights Gets Boost in Colorado
From today’s Denver Post: Lulu Guerrero wakes up at her home in Wiggins, sometimes as early as 3 a.m., to get out to the farm fields that spread across Weld…
As Immigrant Farmworkers Become More Scarce, Robots Replace Humans
From today’s New York Times: As a boy, Abel Montoya remembers his father arriving home from the lettuce fields each evening, the picture of exhaustion, mud caked knee-high on his…