View 25 | 50 | 75 | 100 posts (100 is default)
Search Results for farm worker
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 20th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 19th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Hispanic y Latino News :: November 18th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
LATINA Style Business Series Welcomes Texas State Representative Jessica Farrar as Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Eva Longoria Parker to Be Honored at MALDEF 35th Annual Los Angeles Awards Gala
ICE gives voice to victims of human trafficking in the United States
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: November 2nd, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A painful way to make a living, but for some migrants, little choice – farm workers in Ohio
The leader of a Mexican farmworkers’ organization and 14 other people were killed in a mass shooting in the northern Mexico state of Sonora
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 30th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
SoMoCoCAT Offers Latino Farmworker Communities Free Digital Media Training – California
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 26th, 2009 Edition :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 17th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
CULTURAL DIVIDE: Migrant students find hard time fitting in – Every year, migrant workers and their families travel from Texas to Manchester’s DuRussel Potato Farm to harvest vegetables, living in housing provided by the farm personnel. – Minnesota
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 14th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Appoints Javier Palomarez President and CEO
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 7th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Economic Recovery Still Beyond Reach For Minority Workers
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: October 2nd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
A pilot program in North Carolina has been launched to protect the life and health of U.S. migrant and seasonal farm worker children, many of whom are Hispanic.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 21st, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
The National Hispana Leadership Institute Honored Latinas in Public Service at Its Annual Latina Leaders Breakfast
The Annual Salem Peace Lecture is pleased to celebrate its 20th year with organizer Dolores Huerta, co-founder and first Vice-President of the United Farm Workers of America, speaking on Immigration Reform & Farm Worker Justice. The Peace Lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 21 @ 7:30 PM at Hudson Hall in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center at Willamette University. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 15th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
Chipotle Reaches Agreement with Florida Tomato Grower to Improve Wages for Farm Workers – will receive an additional penny per pound, a wage increase of 64% – (does this sound okay to you?)
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 10th, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
During Hispanic Heritage Month, Discovery Networks U.S. Hispanic Group Celebrates the Invincible Spirit Inherent in All Hispanics With Four Original Productions and the “Dreams Come True” Sweepstakes
Photos: National Museum of American History Explores Bracero Story in New Exhibition – website http://americanhistory.si.edu/bracero
Bracero Story Explored in New Smithsonian Exhibition
New York State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada, Jr. (D-Bronx) held a press conference on Tuesday to cast a spotlight on rights violations against farm workers
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 3rd, 2009 :: 5 Minutes to Empowerment
New NCLR Report: Latino Worker Deaths Sound the Alarm for Declining Standards in America’s Workplaces
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: September 1st, 2009 :: 5 minute to empowerment
Trabajadores agrícolas: los nuevos esclavos – Farmworkers are the New Slaves
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 27th, 2009
Commissioner Constance Barker of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought her campaign against sexual assaults on female Hispanic migrant farm workers to Birmingham on Wednesday.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 26th, 2009
United Farm Workers – Remembering Our Long Time Friend, Senator Edward Kennedy
State agency hears testimony on treatment of farm workers – Michigan
The Michigan Civil Rights Commission Monday publicly accused a federally-funded state agency of “illegally” attempting to undermine efforts to investigate violations of migrant farm workers’ civil rights.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 24th, 2009
Governor Discusses Water Reform at California Latino Water Coalition Press Conference
He toiled in California’s farm fields alongside his Mexican migrant worker parents and didn’t learn English until he was 12. Now Jose Hernandez, NASA astronaut, is about to rocket into orbit.
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 16th, 2009
Migrant camps morph into communities – Housing complexes for farm laborers and other workers are shedding their old patterns and stigmas. – Idaho
Hundreds of farm workers in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur are being exploited by employers who trick them into believing they are in the United States and keep them in line with threats of deportation
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: August 5th, 2009
California steps up efforts to prevent heat-related deaths among farmworkers
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 23rd, 2009
Carlos Ortega, the son of migrant farmworkers who as city manager of Palm Desert became one of the Coachella Valley’s most successful and respected civic leaders, died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage.
Pregnant farm workers exposed to pesticide drift while harvesting organic onions
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: July 20th, 2009
Thieves Continue to Target Migrant Farm Workers in Lowndes County – Florida
In Memoriam: Mario F. Vazquez -vNovember 25, 1946-July 10, 2009
National Council of La Raza Elects New Board Chair and Welcomes Four New Members to Board of Directors
Hispanic y Latino News/Info :: June 24th, 2009
Hispanic y Latino News :: June 19th, 2009
Hispanic y Latino News : June 18th, 2009
Hispanic y Latino News :: June 16th, 2009
Hispanic y Latino News :: June 15th, 2009
Computer ‘raid’ in Vernon leaves factory workers devastated – No immigration agents descended on Overhill Farms, a major food-processing plant in Vernon. No one was arrested or deported. There were no frantic scenes of desperate workers fleeing la migra through the gritty streets of the industrial suburb southeast of downtown Los Angeles. For more than 200 Overhill workers, however, the effect was devastating: All lost steady jobs last month
Hispanic y Latino News for Monday June 8th, 2009
LABOR SECRETARY HILDA SOLIS REVERSES BUSH’S ATTACK ON FARMWORKER LABOR LAWS – Groups applaud the suspension of a policy that slashes wages, worker protections
The children of Hispanic migrant farm workers in a sparsely populated area of central Florida finally have access to a pre-school and can now dream of becoming doctors, teachers or nurses. – Mulberry, Florida
CHC, CAPAC and Progressive Caucus Discuss Immigration Reform with Community Leaders
MAYDAY 2009: List of Marches and Actions – Primero de Mayo 2009: Lista de Marchas y Acciones – (Many thanks to Aurora for compiling this list of 91 events in 26 states)
A federal judge has awarded about $235,000 to more than 600 Latino farm workers who accused a farm labor contractor and two Yakima Valley growers of violating federal labor laws.
Farmworkers Ask Gov. Charlie Crist to Take a Stand Against Slavery – HispanicBusiness.com
News Summaries for January 28th, 2009
The growing number of indigenous people — especially as farm workers — has caught the attention of the federal government, which has made changes to the National Agricultural Workers Survey to get a better picture of the indigenous population here.
News Summaries for December 16th-18th, 2008
Verizon Wireless Funds Scholarships to 20 Southern California Hispanic Students
Field of Calzones – A shame and a travesty as female farmworkers suffer from sexual harassment – It is estimated that about 400.000 women are working in the U.S. fields and packing sheds. The average pays about $11,000 per year.
News Summaries for Monday – December 15th, 2008
Changes in Head Start Will Better Prepare Latino Children to Succeed in School
New Summary for Wednesday – December 3rd, 2008
Children of U.S. farmworkers are three times more likely than other children and almost twice as likely as other poor youngsters to have no health insurance coverage, a new study finds.
News Summary for Tuesday – December 2nd, 2008
Determinants of Health Insurance Status for Children of Latino Immigrant and Other US Farm Workers – Findings From the National Agricultural Workers Survey
News Summary for Wednesday – November 12th, 2008 – 80 Posts
Police hunted Tuesday for 27 farmworkers who were kidnapped in northwestern Mexico by dozens of heavily armed men wearing military-style uniforms.
News Summary for November 7th – 11th, 2008
City Council officials in Dallas made it official this week – they’re not going to be rushed into naming a street for United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez
BANKING ON OBAMA WITH OPEN EYES I’M VOTING FOR THE BLACK MAN
Braceros’ Claims Deadline Extended to January 5, 2009 – WWII-era Mexican Workers Granted Extra Time to File Claims for Withheld Payroll Savings.
News Summary for October 27th, 2008
Who will pick the crops? North Olympic Peninsula farmers lament lack of migrant workers
Blogante News Summary for October 21st-23rd, 2008
Website chronicles farm workers’ rights fight by Cesar Chavez
GACLA’S Executive Director Will Serve as Chair-Elect of National Council – HispanicBusiness.com
Mexico should prepare itself for both the forced and voluntary return of more than 350,000 of its people currently living in the United States due to the financial crisis north of the border, an organization representing farm workers warned Sunday.
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers union, will appear at a brunch Saturday to help raise money for City Attorney Michael Aguirre’s re-election campaign. – San Diego
Southern Poverty Law Center Premieres New Documentary, ‘Viva la Causa’ – Film About California Grape Strike Will Be Distributed to Classrooms Nationwide
Blogante News Summary for Monday – September 22nd, 2008
Blogante News Summary for Monday – September 15th, 2008
Blogante News Summary for Wednesday – September 10th, 2008
Migrant workers fade from farms – Nebraska
Blogante News Summary for Tuesday – September 9th, 2008
News Summary for Wednesday – September 3rd, 2008
2008 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Xavier Becerra, U.S. House of Representatives, California
