Cesar Chávez helped inspire the farmworker labor rights movement with a strike and boycott of grapes in Delano, California, in 1965. Since then, the United Farm Workers has continued its work.
Younger laborers are facing long-term impacts from working conditions due to lax oversight and infrequent inspections.
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. California allows children as young as 12 to work in agriculture, but many face punishing conditions, including ...
Editor's note: Farmworkers in this story requested to use their first names, and one name was changed for privacy and safety reasons. In the productive orchards and fields of Central Washington, ...
It was 7 p.m. on June 24, only the third official day of summer, and the temperature was still a scorching 99 degrees. Emma Cortes, a global emergency medicine fellow at Brown University and founder ...