“Mental health is a health and wellness issue, but it is also a critical workers’ issue that we all must address,” said Mónica Ramírez, founder and president of Justice for Migrant Women. For decades, farmworkers, many Latino, have toiled in the...
“These overtime protections will ensure that agricultural workers in Washington are paid for all of the vital work they do,” President Joe Biden said. On Nov. 5, 2020, a Washington Supreme Court ruled that farmworkers are entitled to get paid...
“As the daughter of a farm-working father…thank you, Mr. President,” Tucson Mayor Regina Romero said. While President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were partaking in the Inauguration ceremony, White House officials were transforming the Oval...
José Martínez-Cuevas and Patricia Aguilar, who both milked cows for DeRuyter Brothers Dairy, Inc. in Washington, sued for overtime pay. Their actions have changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of farmworkers. In Washington, snow covers the fields of fruits and...