In recent years, Brazil's landless workers movement has become more than just a land movement; it is now a climate justice movement. And it is gaining ground — socially and politically. earthisland.org/journal/index.…

In the workplace, between 1992 and 2016, intense heat was responsible for severe injuries to almost 70,000 workers, resulting in 783 deaths.
Stay hydrated my fellow farmers.
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In the Italian region of Abruzzo, one third of farmworkers are foreigners working in more precarious conditions than their Italian counterparts, according to a new analysis released by Openpolis. infomigrants.net/en/post/51087/…

113 degrees at work, failing AC at home: Farmworkers can't escape life-threatening heat latimes.com/california/sto…

This is how farmworkers are transported by farmers on the West Coast in the Western Cape. It’s inhumane.

Local farm workers reached out to the United Farm Workers, concerned about long, irregular hours and harsh conditions faced by their vulnerable peers on H2A visas.

Ostrom abused the H2A workers from day 1, including charging them fees as much as $10,000.
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Ostrom Mushroom Farms in Washington state has to pay $74,642 in penalties and $59,850 in wages after stealing from 62 farmworkers, many of whom traveled here as part of the H-2A program. Nobody will go to jail for this theft and the media doesn't give a shit.

A study found women in California were more likely to have cervical cancer diagnoses at a later stage after age 65.

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Tying guestworker visas to employers leaves migrant workers unable to remove themselves from abusive working conditions.

Migrant workers must have the freedom to switch employers and control over their own visas.

📰 by Daisy Zavala Magaña via The Seattle Times

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Many immigrants come to find work in agriculture, poultry and seafood processing. Some come directly from Mexico, Central America and Haiti.
Farmworkers have temporary visas and arrive in late spring and early summer and stay through the growing season.
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Rep. AOC and colleagues — meet with Brazilian working-class farmworkers, Black, Indigenous, and trade-union movements…

Yahritza y Su Esencia are indigenous mexican kids from Yakama, WA an area that’s mostly populated by working class people e.g farmworkers, native people from the Yakama reservation. they’re kids and DO NOT deserve the threats or degrading comments they’re getting period

Northern Cape and climate crisis.

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We all know the farmworkers would face long prison sentences if they had stolen $59,850 from Ostrom Mushroom Farms.

Equal justice?

Workers on H-2A visas faced many violations from Ostrom Mushroom Farms in Sunnyside. The U.S. Labor Department investigated allegations starting in 2021. st.news/3OxqJlZ

More so, the underpaid Native farmworkers!

“I feel like the state of Idaho is not really on their side,” Santiago told the Statesman. “It can get really hot here, and we really haven’t seen any changes.”

Story AND photos by Daniel V. Ramirez, one of this year's incredible Voces Internship of Idaho interns.

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