Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights has been delayed.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A Missing Link in the Fight Against the Climate Crisis
Under Trump and in the years of austerity, scientists fled the EPA and other agencies. The race to save the planet requires swift and extensive hiring policies.
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 inEnergy and the Environment
New York Dairy Farms Skirt Clean Water Act Requirements
Farms in New York have used a form of legal arbitrage to shield their manure management practices from scrutiny.
Posted inBuilding Back America
Bipartisan Group Converges on Ag Concentration
Farms seem to be the only thing that doesn’t count as ‘infrastructure.’ But an emerging consensus agrees that anti-competitive practices have made food supply a national-security risk.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
USDA Wants to Make Farms Climate-Friendly. Will It Work?
The Conservation Reserve Program pays farmers to leave land uncultivated. But critical flaws in the program may significantly limit its climate benefit.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Biden’s Back on the Day One Agenda
Executive actions on right to repair and noncompete agreements show the power of implementing existing laws that can help people.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Court vs. Farmworkers May Foreshadow Court vs. All Workers
This week’s ruling by the six Republican justices echoes the pre–New Deal rulings of a social Darwinist bench.
Posted inDay One Agenda
Unleash the Existing Anti-Monopoly Arsenal
Corporate power can be neutralized if federal agencies simply used the prodigious authority they’ve been granted.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Congressmembers Roll Out an Anti–Big Tech Agenda
But its path to passage is muddled; states and the courts could lead the way.