While Whatcom County residents celebrate their advance to Phase 2 of the Safe Start COVID response, our farmers have been scrambling to source personal protective equipment and adapt their procedures following yet another change to safety rules from the governor’s office. Effective June 5, Phase 2 allows businesses which had ...
Farm workers work hard and deserve great pay, benefits and protections. You might be surprised at what most farm workers would tell you about the best way to help them. The information in the document below (download and share it) will provide the facts about farm workers, their jobs, guest ...
The UFW claims the meetings in Eastern Washington were intended to silence dairy farm employees. The facts show that it is the other way around.
In mid-July, nearly 50 Washington farm employees gathered to hear from two special guests from California. Sylvia Lopez is a farm worker from the Gerawan Farm in California, one of the largest fruit growers in the country. Francisco Cerritos was a longtime employee of the United Farm Workers union, where ...
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text] MEDIA BEGINNING TO TELL THE STORY OF TRADE ISSUES THREATENING THE FUTURE OF OUR BERRY FARMS [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]KING5 TV's Eric Wilkinson on September 30 interviewed Whatcom family berry farmer Marty Maberry about fair trade issues threatening local farmers.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Spokane Review on October 16 provided an excellent overview of the state's ...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] With the continuing and widespread media coverage of the worker action and the death of a guest farm worker at a Sumas berry farm, we believe it is important to distribute information that the farm is providing. With one exception, no media outlet covering this story has communicated very ...
