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May Day 2024: Workers on a warming planet deserve stronger labor protections
Phys.org· 54 minutes agoThis experience is typical for many food service workers during extreme heat. From fields to fryers,...
Organic farming is only for the rich, claims Prue Leith
Daily Telegraph· 1 hour agoPrue Leith has hit out at the “bureaucracy” of sustainable farming and said only the rich can afford...
Inflation hasn't slowed as much as expected, hitting Long Islanders' wallets
Newsday· 8 hours agoNationwide, consumer prices increased 3.5% in March compared with a year earlier, according to the...
Initial Claims Fall Below Expectations
Zacks via Yahoo Finance· 2 hours agoLong gone are the days of last summer, when we saw more than 260K new claims. Continuing Claims...is our near-term low; November of last year was the...
Farm Safety | Sampson Independent
Sampson Independent· 1 day agoOne of the largest threats for potential injury to farmers and workers is around farm machinery, especially any machinery that has what is called “pinch...
Temporary visas are vital tool amid farm labor shortage | Op-Ed
Seattle Times· 7 days agoGrowers rely on farmworkers. Growers nationwide have had difficulty recruiting farmworkers for years...
Big Ag’s Latest Blow to Workers' Rights
The Nation· 1 day agoIn a courthouse in Visalia, a small city in the heart of Republican grower country, a hearing opened last week to undo the law’s first landmark...
Column: It's time for a grand bargain to end California's solar squabbling
Los Angeles Times· 4 hours agoGov. Gavin Newsom’s appointees could vote next week on a widely criticized plan that climate...
‘People don’t come running . . . for radishes.’ At farms across the state, the flower business is...
The Boston Globe· 2 days agoGrant Family Farm is not alone in finding that flowers are an increasingly important component in...
Temporary farmworker protections strengthened in final Labor Department rule
HR Dive· 21 hours agoTemporary farmworkers in the H-2A visa program are set to receive expanded protections under a U.S. Labor Department rule released Friday, including the ability to advocate ...