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How Employers and Labor Groups Are Trying to Protect Workers From ICE

Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to shield employees from immigration raids.

Capital & Main

The Arc Doesn’t Bend Itself

A new memoir traces the evolution of a trailblazing civil rights group in Texas.

Texas Observer

ICE Resumes Raids in Farms, Hotels, Restaurants and More Following Trump Admin Policy Reversal

A new batch of ICE workplace raids sent shock waves across industries that rely on migrant work after the Trump admin quickly reversed a policy that sought to exempt some employees from being targeted

Latin Times

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William pays tribute to ‘immense sacrifices’ of rangers after fatal attack

Two rangers were killed, one was injured and a further two remain unaccounted for after an attack in a Mozambique reserve last week.

Evening Standard

Prince William’s tribute to rangers ‘with one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet’

Two rangers were killed and a further two remain unaccounted for after an attack

The Independent UK

‘Fields were solitary’: Migration raids send chill across rural California

With Trump set to take office Monday, advocates fear the raids signal a new push to target undocumented labourers.

Al Jazeera

A second Trump presidency has raised concerns of migrant workers’ rights

Former US President Trump says if re-elected, there would be a return of ICE raids.

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Newsom Vetoes Farmworker Heat Safety Bill as State Enforcement Has Fallen

The bill would have made it easier to file heat-related workers’ compensation. A Capital & Main investigation found field safety inspections fell 30% in seven years.

Capital & Main

Harris is winning over America's chefs

More than 60 celebrity chefs and culinary luminaries voiced their support for Harris in a recent campaign event

Salon

How Harris could change American hunger

Here's what Harris' record tells us about her views on food insecurity, essential workers and labor

Salon

California Farmworkers Unionize Under New Law

Explore the ongoing battle between Wonderful Co. and UFW over farmworker unionization in California's Central Valley.

Top News

From NASA to farm unions: Meet the Latinas among 2024's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Ellen Ochoa and Teresa Romero join a class that also includes Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi and Michael Bloomberg

Latin Times

The California town that could hold the key to control of the House in 2024

Delano is in the heart of a district won by Biden but held by a Republican. Will David Valadao’s vote to impeach Trump help him hang on?

The Guardian - US

UFW just got big union wins at New York farms. Is the same coming for California?

The United Farm Workers just had its biggest unionizing success in years, and it didn’t happen in California.

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The Guardian - US

Union wins at New York farms raise hopes for once-powerful UFW

Five hundred farmworkers have unionized – the biggest success in years for the union co-founded by Cesar Chavez

Los Angeles Times

Storm flooding compounds misery for California farms and workers

The sun was shining again recently when Fidencio Velasquez visited what used to be 90 acres of prime Ventura County strawberry fields.

Tribune News Service

Overtime law was supposed to help these California workers. Many make less money now

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As a 2016 California law requiring agricultural employers to pay overtime continues to roll out in 2023, farmworkers and employers say the policy is costing them money.

Capital & Main

Union Health Plan Provides Much-Needed Safety Net

The Robert F. Kennedy farmworkers plan is limited, but it is the best option for many.

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Capital & Main

Fred Ross Jr.: An Appreciation

An innovative organizer for three unions, Ross also challenged U.S. policy toward Central America.

Los Angeles Times

Farmer vs. farmworker's son. What this race for Congress means in California's Central Valley

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — As a teenager, David Valadao had a long list of chores to do before school every day. He'd jump on his tractor, buck hay and feed the family's dairy cows on their Hanford farm. After school, it was more of the same.

The Independent UK

Prince of Wales speaks of ‘much-missed grandmother’ who cared for natural world

William delivered a speech at the United for Wildlife global summit in London.

Los Angeles Times

Newsom signs UFW bill aimed at helping California farmworkers organize

After previously indicating he might veto the measure, Gov. Gavin Newson signed a new law Wednesday that will make it easier for agricultural laborers to join unions, a hard-fought win for the United Farm Workers.

Los Angeles Times

Anita Chabria: Biden turns tables on Newsom by backing California farmworker bill

California farmworkers may struggle with clout in our state Capitol, but they definitely have friends in higher places.

Tribune News Service

Biden’s support of California farmworker bill makes it ‘complicated’ for Newsom

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Gov. Gavin Newsom weighs whether to veto another California farmworker union bill, he has a new and unexpected voice in his ear: President Joe Biden, who has decided to inject national politics into a state labor battle.

Los Angeles Times

George Skelton: Newsom skipped meeting with UFW leaders. Now he should sign California's farmworker union bill

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — In 1966, Gov. Pat Brown made a politically tone-deaf mistake with Cesar Chavez's farmworkers union. This year, Gov. Gavin Newsom repeated the goof. Brown redeemed himself. Newsom probably won't.

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