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Worker Protections against Wildfire Smoke Blocked in California
The California Legislature scrapped a bill this year that would have allowed labor inspectors to visit farming fields during wildfire emergencies to ensure that employers follow rules protecting workers from the toxic smoke.
California Has Safeguards for Workers Exposed to Smoke from Fires, But Do they Work?
California claims some of the strictest protections for farm and outdoor workers in valleys that have been filled with toxic smoke and ash from recent wildfires. But these rules are rarely enforced and few employers are inspected and sanctioned, calling into question their effectiveness.
(Español) California no protegió a trabajadores al aire libre del humo de los incendios forestales bajo nuevo jefe de OSHA con Biden
(Español) La mísera aplicación de la ley estatal sobre el humo no es más que el último ejemplo de la lentitud de la agencia a la hora de actuar sobre las normativas que responden a las crisis agravadas por el cambio climático.
Extra Edition: Low-wage workers lose paid sick leave.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19 PROGRAM # 9414 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: Low-wage workers lose paid sick leave. In California, a law that provided employees with extended paid time off during the pandemic has expired as advocates call for extending the law. They say workers of low wage are being most impacted by the pandemic, the […]
Protecting Field Workers Against Toxic Smoke. Also, Rural, Young Adults Hit Hard by Covid.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 PROGRAM # 9388 12:00 PM PDT Protecting Field Workers Against Toxic Smoke. A bill sitting in California Gov. Newsom’s desk would designate farm laborers as “essential workers” and would give them access to N-95 masks, the kind of masks healthcare workers wear, to protect against wildfire smoke particles during the harvest season. […]
Extreme Heat Wave Threatens Farm Workers’ Health
Increasing numbers of patients are going to emergency rooms in rural towns due to the heat wave in the Western United States. The unusually extreme temperatures this season have been putting farmworkers in grave danger.
Health Secretary Becerra Highlights Model Vaccination Plan for Farm Workers
After hitting California’s farmlands hard a year ago, COVID-19 infection rates dropped from 40 percent to 8 percent among Monterey County farmworkers.
Extra Edition: A Repeat. – Healing Farm Worker Trauma. Also, Preparing for the Next Public Health Crisis.
THURSDAY, JUNE 24 PROGRAM # 9297 11:00 AM PDT Extra Edition: A Repeat. – Healing Farm Worker Trauma. The nearly 3 million mostly Latino farmworkers in this country have experienced decades of traumatic working conditions, economic insecurity and vulnerability, all of which has worsened in the last year by COVID-19. A first-of-its-kind mental health initiative […]
Hearings to Legalize Essential Workers Kick Off
Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California opened the first session on Capitol Hill this week to launch a bill aimed at legalizing more than five million undocumented immigrants who are considered essential workers.
Celebrating Essential Workers.
MONDAY, MAY 3 PROGRAM # 9244 12:00 PM PDT Celebrating Essential Workers. On the heels of International Workers’ Day, California’s Labor Commissioner joins this edition to explain the State Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Act of 2021, a new and temporary law that just took effect granting workers up to 80 paid sick hours if they […]
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