by Liisa Wale | Sep 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
August 26th, 2019 Originally posted at The Takeaway On The Takeaway, we’ve talked about how heat is affecting workers throughout the country this summer — but now we want to turn our attention to farmers. For instance, farmers from California have been...
by Liisa Wale | Sep 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Gosia Wozniacka July 16,2019 Originally Posted at Civil Eats When Juan Antonio Lara signed up to work in Washington state’s apple orchards, he had big dreams. He hoped to make enough money working as an agricultural guest worker to build a house in his native El...
by Liisa Wale | Sep 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
By David Bacon July 5th, 2019 Originally Posted at The American Prospect On Wednesday morning, June 12, 21 guest workers at the King Fuji Ranch in Mattawa, Washington, didn’t file into the company orchards as usual, to thin apples. Instead, they stood with arms folded...
by Liisa Wale | Sep 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
By David Bacon April 23rd, 2019 Originally posted at People’s World In 2013, in Washington State, Familias Unidas por la Justicia was born when migrant indigenous Mexican blueberry pickers refused to go into the fields of Sakuma Brothers Farms after one of them...
by Liisa Wale | Sep 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
By Don Jenkins August 27,2019 Originally Posted at Capital Press OLYMPIA — Labor and grower representatives adopted Monday a wide-ranging charter to study how foreign and American farmworkers are recruited and treated in Washington. The eight-member committee — four...
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