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The impact of the federal immigration enforcement has extended beyond the fields, according to Martinez-Bravo. Children of ...
The contract comes after nearly 3,000 grocery workers threatened to strike. UFCW Local 663 also agreed to drop the unfair ...
Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.
Immigration enforcement operations on farms have left crops rotting and farm operations disrupted in major agricultural ...
"What happens when an experienced worker is detained or doesn't show up? It's total chaos," a dairy farmworker said.
Workers at a Texas-based beef processing plant just "voted by a 98 percent margin" to authorize a strike at the facility amid ...
Aggressive deportation tactics have terrorized farmworkers at the center of the nation’s bird flu strategy, public health workers say. Dairy and poultry workers have accounted for most cases of the ...
As the bird flu outbreak continues, public health outreach to farm workers is meeting fear and resistance amid Trump’s attacks on immigrants By Amy Maxmen & KFF Health News ...
In January 2022, the first wild birds in the United States tested positive for a highly contagious and deadly strain of bird flu. The next month, it had spread to a turkey farm in Indiana.
A Nevada dairy worker was infected with a version of bird flu that is known to have killed one person in the United States and severely sickened a teen in Canada, state and federal health ...
Corwin last month was forced to lay off 48 workers, some of whom had been with the farm for decades, and euthanize his entire flock of 99,000 birds after tests confirmed a bird flu outbreak there.
Instead of advocating against mass deportations, farm owners are “going to Congress and asking for more H-2A workers and to pay them less… they want to replace one kind of cheap, vulnerable ...