Janet Mills has vetoed collective bargaining rights, wealth taxes, protections for renters, and tribal sovereignty laws.
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Younger laborers are facing long-term impacts from working conditions due to lax oversight and infrequent inspections.
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Child Farmworkers Face Dangerous Exposure to Pesticides in California Fields Read Post »
The climate of fear has made families more reluctant than ever to complain about unsafe working conditions.
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California Is Failing to Protect Health and Safety of Child Farmworkers Read Post »
After Isabella received an H-2A visa, she faced trafficking, brutal working conditions, and gender-based violence.
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For Mexican Workers, Temporary Farmwork Visas Facilitate Abuse and Exploitation Read Post »
Increasingly targeted in immigration raids, Mixteco and Triqui communities hold festivals of resistance.
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Indigenous Communities From Southern Mexico Refuse to Bow to ICE in California Read Post »
Agents tear-gassed community members, including children, as crowds attempted to protect farmworkers from arrest.
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Farmworker Dead and More Than 300 More Detained in California ICE Raid Read Post »
“Other workers, including U.S. citizens, remain unaccounted for,” reported the United Farm Workers.
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Farmworker Falls to His Death During Violent California ICE Raid Read Post »
Deportations have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the nation’s bird flu strategy, public health workers say.
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Trump’s Mass Deportations May Be Hampering Efforts to Avert Bird Flu Pandemic Read Post »
“We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create.
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With Detention of Beloved Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement Read Post »
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