Farmworkers

A legal campaign is underway to protect outdoor workers in Miami-Dade County from the heat. “Que Calor” or “How Hot” would require access to water and breaks to rest in the shade for farmworkers, plant nursery workers, day laborers, construction workers and others on the front lines of an increasingly hotter climate. Workers who show signs of heat illness must...

Farmworkers in South Florida are supporting efforts to create safety standards, including heat provisions and treatment for heat illness, as climate change makes working conditions deadly for some.

From 2005 to 2020, U.S. employers around the country were ordered to pay more than $42.5 million in back wages to 69,000 workers who perform seasonal low-wage jobs on guest worker visas

The jobs that migrant farmworkers do every day feed the American population and are essential to the economy. But their contributions often go unacknowledged. Monica Ramirez, president and founder of Justice for Migrant Women, joined LX News Now to discuss their struggles with food insecurity, lack of childcare and dangerous conditions — all of which have been made worse during...

Undocumented farm workers put themselves at risk for COVID-19 to keep the country fed during the pandemic. Now a bill sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a senior Democrat from California, would give them a path to legal residency.

When COVID-19 hit the U.S., a nonprofit that serves Indigenous Mexican migrant communities in California saw that most public health information was available only in English and Spanish. So the organization, Proyecto Mixteco Indígena, decided to use its radio station, Radio Indígena 94.1 FM, to broadcast vital information in Mixtec, Zapotec, Purépecha and other Indigenous Mexican languages.

The images of the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Juan Diego arrived, accompanied by mariachi, to visit the field workers in Moorpark Thursday.

Gianna Nino-Tapias got a masters degree from Stanford University in epidemiology, but is now working with her family as a migrant farm worker after losing her job due to the coronavirus. She joined LX News to discuss her viral tweet and conditions for migrant workers during the pandemic.

A mariachi band thanked fieldworkers in Bakersfield, Calif., for their work during the pandemic with a free concert.

California farms are still working to supply food to much of the United States amid the coronavirus