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Over one hundred thousand people are now evacuated from the Thomas Fire, burning in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. But workers in the area’s…
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An investigation continues this week into a suspected June 22 insecticide poisoning of 18 farmworkers in Salinas.The Monterey County Agricultural…
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Latino USA recently reexamined the 2016 fire in Nipomo that destroyed farmworker housing under construction. The segment aired on Latino USA, NPR's…
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A hotly contested law to phase in new overtime pay for farmworkers got lots of buzz when Governor Jerry Brown signed it into law earlier this year. That…
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Central Coast farmworkers are invited to a town hall meeting Monday night in Santa Maria. Santa Barbara County supervisors Janet Wolf and Salud Carbajal…
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California’s Central Coast is suffering from an ongoing farm worker shortage.Undocumented workers in the Santa Maria Valley have told KCBX that fear over…
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An effort to help ease a shortage of farm workers on the Central Coast is underway in Santa Barbara County, as plans for a large housing project for…
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An ongoing push for improved working conditions in berry fields along the West Coast is set for ramp-up in the coming weeks.The movement is targeting a…