TUESDAY, JUNE 29
PROGRAM # 9301 11:00 AM PDT
Extra Edition: Farm Workers Rights.
A number of leading farm worker advocates traveled through small towns in the agricultural heartlands of California’s Central Valley talking to field workers about workers’ rights to sick leave for Covid-19, including seeking vaccination and protection from employer retaliation. They also shared information about farm workers rights to get protection against heat illness. Guest analysts also discuss a recent US Supreme Court decision ruling against a California regulation that allows union organizers to access the farms to meet with farm workers as well as an agreement between California’s legislative leaders and Gov. Newsom to allow eligible undocumented immigrants 50 years and older to have health coverage under Medi-Cal.
Guests: Dolores Huerta, Founder and President, Dolores Huerta Foundation, Co-Founder of the United Farm Workers, Bakersfield, CA; Lilia García-Bower, California Labor Commissioner, Sacramento, CA; Edward Flores, Executive Committee Member, UC Merced Community and Labor Center, Sociology Professor, University of California Merced, Merced, CA.
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