#farmworker — Public Fediverse posts
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"Today, #civilrights leader #DoloresHuerta issued the following statement: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the #farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for. medium.com/@dolores_hue...
A Statement from Dolores Huert... -
"In California, laborers as young as 12 can legally work in #agriculture. But many of them toil in punishing and dangerous conditions, and the state is failing to ensure their health and safety" #farmworker https://capitalandmain.com/californias-child-farmworkers-exhausted-underpaid-and-toiling-in-toxic-fields
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🌕 🍂 Harvest Moon 🍂 🌕
The harvest moon is the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox so called because because the extra, bright moonlight in the early evening provided a crucial extended work period for farmers to finish harvesting their crops before the first frost
Hired Hand, Grundy County, lowa, 1939. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein
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#arthurrothstein #harvest #corn #harvestmoon #farmer #farmlife #autumnharvest #photography #photooftheday #photographer #documentaryphotography
#documentaryphotographer #fotografia #fotografie #hiredhand #bwphoto #bwphotography #photoworld #farmworker #schwarzweissfotografie #schwarzweiss #blancoynegro #iowa -
Sen #ElizabethWarren (D-MA) sent a letter Thursday calling on the #Labor Dept to release the #data despite the #shutdown. According to William Beach, a fmr commissioner of the #BLS, the monthly survey was collected & processed this week.
Shutdown or not, the #Trump admin has already canceled some data collection, such as an annual survey of #FoodSecurity & another on #farmworker #wages, to obscure understanding of the #US’ economic health.
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Farm to Taber
https://youtube.com/@farmtotaber?si=1zcwDKJEGngOp0f8> Farms, food, and money! I'm a small farmer, crop scientist, and ex-farm worker.
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…#Immigration enforcement actions at #farms, #businesses & #construction sites brought everything to a standstill, said Elizabeth Rodriguez, director of #farmworker advocacy for the National Farmworker Ministry.
“In May, during the peak of our watermelon and cantaloupe season, it delayed it. A lot of #crops did go to #waste,” she said.
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#Weather damaged much of the family orchard’s crop for the 3rd time in 5 years. The blow landed on a #farm & an industry already squeezed by the #Trump admin’s changes to #government #services, #immigration & #trade policies.
King Orchards’ harvest crew from Guatemala arrived in mid-July, short-handed & weeks late after delays in securing the H2A seasonal #farmworker #visas…. They paid more to ship fresh cherries by private carrier after #USPS reorganization left fresh fruit sitting too long.
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A #California #farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when #US #immigration agents raided a cannabis operation & arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.
Dozens of #ImmigrantRights activists faced off w/ #federal agents in rural Southern California on Thursday. It was the latest escalation of #Trump's campaign for #MassDeportations of immigrants in the US.
#law #HumanRights #ICE #Gestapo #PoliceBrutality
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/one-california-worker-dead-hundreds-arrested-after-cannabis-farm-raid-2025-07-11/ -
How Colleges and Ag Companies Are Training the Next Generation of Workers https://www.allforgardening.com/1352878/how-colleges-and-ag-companies-are-training-the-next-generation-of-workers/ #AgLaborManagement #DTN/Ag/Labor #FarmLabor #FarmLaborManagement #FarmLaborNews #FarmWorker #FARMBUSINESSNEWS #garden #gardening #GardeningCanada #news
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Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB: #Farmworker, #immigrant rights group take to the streets in #SalemOregon #Oregon
#Migrants #immigrants
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/05/01/farmworker-immigrant-rights-protest-may-day-salem-pcun/ -
Best handouts on Colorado farm worker rights?
We are looking for a good handout on #Colorado #farmworker rights to have as a reference for Farm Club. We have this exercise in visual dullness from the CO DOL: https://cdle.colorado.gov/sites/cdle/files/Agric…
Has anyone else made a more user-friendly version?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdpMcz3JAho&list=PLneypbodq-jYq9a6Y8BjobC6KJOIBLCZB&index=3&pp=iAQB
🚨 #ALERT 🚨
Washington #farmworker Organiser #AlfredoLeloJuarez Detained in Trump #Immigration Crackdown
#StoptheKidnappings #StopDeportations
#FreeAlfredoLeloJuarez #AbolishICE
#Lelo is currently jailed at the privately run #NorthwestDetentionCenter in #Tacoma, Washington, where hundreds have rallied in support of his release.
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#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
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https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism -
#US #CDC #H5N1 #BirdFlu #Response #Update August 2, 2024, https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/spotlights/h5n1-response-08022024.html
In this week's update, CDC shares information about 2 new investments agency announced this week to protect & improve #farmworker #health. Also provides a summary of new #genetic #sequencing data from viruses that caused 3 human cases in #Colorado #poultry workers that were confirmed on July 25, 2024. Also included is an update on #seroprevalence studies in #Colorado and #Michigan.
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#USA, First #human case of #influenza A (#H5) detected in #Michigan #resident, MDHHS: https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside-mdhhs/newsroom/2024/05/22/influenza-a-detection
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is announcing the first case of influenza A (H5) virus identified in a Michigan #farmworker who had regular #exposure to #livestock infected with influenza A (H5).
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Maker of #POM and #Fiji Water suing to enjoin #farmworker #unionization bill. https://apnews.com/article/farmworkers-union-wonderful-co-california-newsom-biden-23dd469e3c2c8aa664ac0fd764c0c54e
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#USA, #Readout of #CDC Call with State Public #Health Partners Regarding Avian #Influenza and #Farmworker #Protection, https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2024/s0506-readout-avian.html
May 6, 2024 – Today, CDC Director Nirav D. Shah met with state health officials, public health emergency preparedness directors, state epidemiologists, and state public health veterinarians, and leadership from public health partner organizations to discuss farmworker protection and personal protective equipment (#PPE) for avian influenza.
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@Hey_Beth I’d like to see a #NewCity or #Arcology as an alternative to typical #Sprawl which often results in open spaces and prime ag lands near existing cities being destroyed. However, the first draft of this proposal didn’t look green enough and it would be better to put it on the #WestSide of the #SanJoaquinValley, where it could replace thousands of acres of almonds, use other land too alkaline to farm, and include new neighborhoods with decent housing and water for #farmworker families.
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Tribute to the day labourer
The occupation of day labourer is out of date. Yet, it was one of the most common occupations until before the First World War. Consequently, many of my ancestors worked as day labourers. Now what is a day labourer?
#FamilyHistory #OldOccupations #JobsOfYesteryear #ForgottenOccupations #SocialHistory #DayLabourer #Farmworker
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[Paywall] Young People in #Peru Are Protesting to Protect Democracy
by Walter Thomas-Patterson, September, 2023
"#Indigenous community members, #farmworker coalitions, and #students have taken to the streets. 'Right now, we are calling for #DinaBoluarte to leave power, and for new congressional elections.'
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/peru-youth-indigenous-protests-dina-boluarte/
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Everyone Owes a #Debt to #Laborers
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-goodman/107559/everyone-owes-a-debt-to-laborersThis #LaborDay, a day set aside as a national holiday in 1894, we commemorate the #laborunion movement, the demand for an eight-hour work day, better working conditions, #fairwages, and an end to #childlabor.
#Genderequality, #racialequality, fair #farmprices, and #farmworker rights are separate issues but all related to the struggle of the #unions for a fair wage and decent working conditions. -
Bill would raise threshold for #farmworker overtime
This is the second year that #farmworkers are eligible for overtime. Right now, if they work more than 48 hours in a week, they get paid time and half. Next year, they’ll be the same as everyone else — anything past 40 hours would count as overtime. But new proposed legislation in #OlympiaWA is trying to re-negotiate that.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/bill-would-raise-threshold-for-farmworker-overtime
Getting paid #overtime for when employees at farms worked over 40 hours was a hard-won battle for farmworkers in #Washington and the change is being slowly introduced to reduce the impact on farm owners
SB 5476 would allow employers to choose up to 12 weeks each year when farmworkers could work up to 50 hours without getting paid overtime #wages.
SB 5172 made farmworkers, who have historically been excluded from overtime pay regulations, eligible for overtime pay.
Farmworker Alfredo Juarez, who lives off his summertime wages in winter and picks up work in packing plants, believes the 12 weeks per year would invariably come during summer and fall harvests, meaning he would be working more and making less.
"It's not fair," Juarez said. "It's really not fair at all."
There's also a social justice component at play. The exemption of farmworkers for overtime came out of the Deep South in the 1930s, and some say it's a remnant of #racism that should be eradicated.
“It's hard to come by a more straightforward example of systemic racism and we must not be press forward with this,”
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#Roundup Caused Her Cancer, but Bayer Won’t Pay Settlement Because She’s an #Undocumented #Farmworker, Lawsuit Says
Elvira Reyes-Hernandez was diagnosed with cancer after working for years with the weed killer on Virginia tree farms.https://inthesetimes.com/article/roundup-cancer-monsanto-bayer-settlement-undocumented-farmworker