Farmworkers struggle against deportation and even lower wages.
David Bacon
David Bacon is a California writer and photojournalist; his latest book is In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte (University of California / El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2017).
Posted inWorking in America
Can Biden’s Executive Order Deliver for Care Workers?
Absent the Build Back Better bill, the fight for care workers continues at the state level, and with Biden’s executive order.
Posted inWorking in America
Where Discrimination Flourished Like Mushrooms
Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Rooted in Exclusion, California Towns Fight for Safe Drinking Water
What’s happening among underserved and unincorporated communities like Lanare, Matheny Tract, and Tooleville may portend darker days ahead.
Posted inWorking in America
Newsom Vetoes Union Vote-by-Mail Bill for Farmworkers
Assembly Bill 616 would have made it easier for California farmworkers to vote to unionize by allowing them to fill out and mail ballots as absentees.
Posted inWorking in America
Is the Abandonment of Guest Worker COVID Protections a Taste of Things to Come?
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would likely lead to enormous increases in the number of workers brought to the U.S. by growers.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump’s Immigration Order: Fast Track to an Abusive Past
The president limits U.S. entry to farmworkers with no rights—a boon to both Big Ag and nativists.
Posted inCoronavirus
America’s Farmworkers—Now ‘Essential,’ but Denied the Just-Enacted Benefits
The undocumented workers who pick the nation’s food are excluded from the CARES Act.
Posted inWorking in America
‘Close to Slavery’ or Legalization? The Farmworkers’ Hard Choice
A bipartisan bill now in Congress would legalize undocumented agricultural workers—but also bring in wage-depressing foreign contract workers with no rights.
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Since Washington, D.C., Won’t Oversee Its Guest Worker Programs, Washington State Will
Farmworkers also recently won bargaining rights in New York. But California—once the epicenter of farmworker rights—is falling behind.