farmworker

The Santa Maria Strawberry Festival wrapped up another celebration of the annual harvest over the weekend. But for some in the community, it was a time to unite and advocate for a living wage for people who work the fields and pick the strawberries.

A Santa Maria activist is banding together local youth to inform fieldworkers and their children about their rights. As the son of farmworkers himself, he says it's personal.

The new report by CAUSE and MICOP suggests farmworker income often falls below the living wage in Santa Barbara County.

KCBX’s Amanda Wernik spoke with Senior Policy Advocate, Andrea Echeverri with the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, or CAUSE, about the unsafe working conditions that farmworkers face and what our region can do to protect them.

Santa Barbara County now has a mobile resource center for farmworkers known as Proyecto Campesino. It’s an office on wheels that provides support to farmworkers and their employers by bringing resources to the agricultural community.

The mother of a 19-year-old man who was shot and killed by a Santa Maria police officer earlier this year is opening up about her son’s death for the first time.

Recent investigations from the US Department of Labor found that five farms in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties have neglected to pay and provide the proper benefits to their workers.

An American odyssey toward citizenship spanning 36 years is something many farmworkers don't often experience. Maria's life is that odyssey — and much more.

Maria will tell you without hesitation: she never thought she would be here right now.“I never thought about putting my life at risk by crossing the…

Reina Salvador's journey is one of transformation from a struggling single mother and field worker to a woman who wants to give back — not just to her family, but to her community as a farmworker rights organizer.