Articles Tagged with ''United Farm Workers''

Union leaders are looking to Joe Biden to lead the way for new protections for employees in the ag and food sector, including overtime for farmworkers.

United Farm Workers calls for state to step in * A new ARS center in Salinas * Ag exports forecast up, but China lags * RNC doubles down on reg relief

United Farm Workers is calling on Cal/OSHA to take more action to ensure farmworkers have N95 masks as wildfire smoke blankets ag valleys.

While farm groups share this goal, the policy being proposed has drawn opposition from a broad coalition of agricultural and business groups.

In a defeat for some Michigan farms, a federal judge upholds an emergency state order requiring testing of farmworkers for COVID-19.

A new bill would ban two widely used classes of pesticides and allow citizens to petition the Environmental Protection Agency for designations of pesticides as “dangerous,” which could lead to suspension of their registrations.

The fiscal side of climate impacts * Senate Dems set food priorities for next aid package

Newsom has assembled a list of dozens of industry and labor leaders for his new Task Force on Business and Jobs Recovery.