August 31, 2008

Nonprofits to build new farmworker rental complex in Immokalee

August 30, 2008

Immigrant Farmworkers Get Legislative Support

Harvest Season Means Parents Away From Children

Program Helps Children Of Migrant Workers

Bill boosts aid to ag workers hit by drought

Also headed to desk of governor is bill to ease farmworker union voting.

August 28, 2008
Labor contractor gives up license after heat death

Central Coast contingent lobbies lawmakers to change farmworker union elections.
 

August 27, 2008

Head Start suspects profiling by immigration officials

Group says officials track illegal migrants outside centers

USDA: 500,500 workers hired on farms are illegal

Opinion: EPA's Sluggish Response

August 26, 2008
Illegal Immigrants Targeted in Home Invasions

Pilgrim's Pride chief joins voices calling for immigration change
 

August 25, 2008
PCUN president fights for fairness
He is motivated by discrimination he saw against parents

Clinton praises UFW
New York senator stops in Fresno on her way to the Democratic convention.

Thousands gather to recognize ag workers
 

Farmworkers union chief wants change in voting

Program ensures immigrants learning, legal
The local Pennsylvania Migrant Education program is one of the most successful in the state when it comes to the number of students who go on to further their education.
 

August 24, 2008 
UFW speech echoes past
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reminds of union's early days.
 

August 23, 2008

Coroner confirms: Heat killed farmworker

Lawsuit highlights conflicted views on "guest workers"

August 22, 2008  

Dysart Migrant Head Start Center's classes reach out to kids Giving youngsters a head start

Feds Crackdown Hits Illegal Workers At Oahu Farm Farm Leader Says Finding Workers Difficult In Hawaii

Farm workers with visas sue over conditions

August 21, 2008
In California's fields, risks rise with the temperature

Farmworker heat deaths increase
Crackdown seems to have little effect
 

County weighs criminal case over farmworker housing

Hoping farmworker film reaps goodwill
Assemblyman Nuñez makes a movie about field hands to persuade governor to sign a bill to ease unionizing.
 

Farmworker agency closing Omaha office
 

August 19, 2008
U.S. farmers see how their employees live back in Mexico
As a backlash against immigrants grows, one group aims to build understanding by sending Midwestern farmers south of the border for 'cultural immersion.'

California could change farm worker union votes
 

August 18, 2008  

Farmworkers' celebration in Ogden highlights hope of opportunity

August 17, 2008
Homeowners against palmetto berry pickers in Lehigh Acres
To residents, it's trespassing; to pickers, it's survival

Clinic gives farmworkers primer on health
 

August 16, 2008  

Indigenous Central Americans increasingly fill ranks of farmworkers

Recruiters fill the void after immigration raids

August 15, 2008

Bracero stories sought

Scholar working on dissertation on community

State farmworkers face low quality of life, study finds Homelessness, subpar housing are main concerns

August 14, 2008

Cal-OSHA penalizes 2nd labor contractor over farm heat rules

Editorial

Duroville managers must come through on their promises Improve living conditions for migrant workers

Orosi farm labor contractor's license revoked   Department of Labor acts after two traffic accidents cause deaths and injuries.

Farmers: Immigration raids imperil harvests

August 13, 2008
Tomato farm's donation completes shoe drive goal

Migrant camp invaded
 

August 12, 2008
State fines Galt contractor $77,900 for safety violations

Study looks at health of farmworkers
MICASA follows everything from aches to diabetes in laborers.
 

August 11, 2008  

Clackamas County Head Start caters to migrants' kids  

Nearly 40 children attend the new program

August 10, 2008
Michigan farms have plenty of workers this summer as economy drives migrants back to the fields

Custom harvest crews keep time with seasons

Migrants feeling pinch

Food drive helps laborers who have little agricultural work this season
 

August 9, 2008

Court rejects part of Fla. migrant housing ruling

August 8, 2008

Farmworker project nears completion

Housing improves for farm workers

August 7, 2008

Migrant rights advocate detained by Border Patrol

Healing the Workers: Agency provides migrant farmers with health care

Group sows seeds of hope for migrants

No visa exists for simply working at Agriprocessors

August 6, 2008  

Some without seat belts in 10-person crash

Classroom in the Cherry Orchards

Head Start plants seeds for a fruitful future

August 5, 2008  

Judge takes attorneys to task in Duroville case, cites 'failure to communicate'

August 4, 2008
Isle immigrants face felony counts
Illegal aliens arrested in Waipahu could serve time in prison before being deported
 

August 3, 2008
Deported, by U.S. Hospitals

Actions being taken to make Duroville safer
 

August 2, 2008
State probing 12 possible worker heat deaths

Region’s growers worry about new EPA rules for soil treatment

Kids get Head Start

Labor pains
Migrant workers in Conesville say they've been left stranded after being unjustly fired, but the owner of the labor camp tells a different story
 

August 1, 2008
Farmworker Head Start growth on tap
 

Agents arrest 43 Mexican immigrants