Hey #labornotes2024 folks! I’ll be moderating a bilingual panel on farm labor organizing on Saturday at 145pm. Join us! labornotes2024.sched.com/event/1bhe1/fa…

“Janelle Bynum has no rural experience.”
Oregon’s Farmworker Union meanwhile:

Oregon’s Farmworker Union PCUN has endorsed Janelle Bynum for #OR05 !

In #Illinois , it is estimated that there are about 50,000 #farmworkers in the state each year.

From today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar.

Ag employer groups are spending millions on ads to discourage California farm worker unionizing.

“Growers pretending to speak for farmworkers is nothing new.”
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1/ The number of #farmworkers , both family and hired, on U.S. #farms decreased substantially between 1950 and 2000. This decline is due mostly to mechanization in the #agriculture industry.

From today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar.

Half Moon Bay Prepares to Break Ground on Farmworker Housing dlvr.it/T5Xnjs

Rigoberto’s Berries is alive and well! My first ever short story was lost to a now defunct journal, but Doubleback Review cared about Beto so much, they gave him new life on the published page! Check out my farmworker story in issue 6, out now! 🍓
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It's been a rough year for survivors of the Half Moon Bay mushroom farm shootings. The #farmworkers I spoke to yearn for a safe, stable place to call home. And local officials are responding. New homes could be ready in less than a year. KQED News
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Students in my farmworker class have been working on understanding the impacts of climate change on ag workers through interviews and a community mapping focus group with farmworkers hosted by @centrodspc. On Wednesday, they’ll present findings in a poster session.

Other risks facing U.S. hired farmworkers can include substandard #housing conditions, low #wages and chronic #health conditions (including things like diabetes and hypertension).

From today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar.

MBEP in partnership with Ag Grower-Shipper Association convened the Salinas & Pajaro Valley Farmworker Housing Study Oversight Committee. We celebrated progress & recommitted to addressing the need for thousands of new homes for our workforce.

There are a number of barriers that U.S. hired farmworkers face to receive #healthcare , including lack of #insurance , #language barriers and education and health literacy, among others.

From today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar.

Getting ready to read some #farmworker poetry at the #JCCC Cav Conference on Writing and Literature 🌻 ✍️🏽

Today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar — part of the Cultivating Caution series from farmdoc daily, Illinois Extension and College of ACES — is kicking off shortly.

Follow along here to learn more about risks faced by #ag #workers and ways to protect their safety and health.

1/ #Demographic characteristics of U.S. hired #farmworkers and all wage and salary workers, as of 2021.

From today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar.

2/2 Fractures account for the majority of #injuries to U.S. farmworkers, often caused by things like #machinery or #transportation .

From today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar.

1/ Adverse effect #wage rates are specific to H-2A workers. H-2A employers must pay the higher of the state or federal minimum wage or the regional average #farm wage.

From today's 'Farmworker Safety and Health' webinar.

Meet Anabel, a former Advocacy & Communications Coordinator at Farmworker Housing Development Corporation (FHDC) in Woodburn. Learn more about FHDC’s model affordable housing developments in [Episode 7] Woodburn – Farmworker/ Agriculture Housing

'One strategy, says Lupe Gonzalo, is to find alternative solutions while the policy-making slowly moves. She and her colleagues at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farmworker organization based in south Florida, have developed... the Fair Food Program.'

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