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The Sacrificed Food Workers

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On June 21, 2020
I've talked plenty about the impact of COVID-19 on food workers. Already some of the worst treated workers in America, no one cared about them until those conditions could affect consumers. And finally people paid attention, probably up to the precise moment that COVID is...
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The coronavirus has most certainly not stopped the Republican war on workers. What it has also done is put some of those workers in the spotlight, as they used their expanded leverage and incredible fear of catching the virus to demand safety on the job....
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California Farmworker Overtime

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On August 30, 2016
Great move by the California legislature to pass a bill granting farmworkers overtime pay. Of course, it's a travesty that this is something that still has to happen, has not in most states, and is not covered by the federal government. But this is the...
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Poverty in the Valley of Plenty

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On January 4, 2016
In 1948, the National Farm Labor Union and Hollywood filmmakers who hated the virulently anti-union big farm grower DiGiorgio Fruit, the largest grape, plum, and pear grower in the world, made a film titled Poverty in the Valley of Plenty to expose the terrible conditions...
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