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Action Alert: Tell Gov. Inslee to protect farmworkers during COVID-19

Author(s): 
Chrys Ostrander

A worker wearing protective gear harvests collard greens at a farm in Jackson, MississippiUnions representing U.S. farmworkers, many of whom are immigrants and guest workers, escalated their push for safer working conditions during the pandemic with a lawsuit against Washington state. The United Farm Workers and Familias Unidas por la Justicia accused regulators of failing to do enough to protect workers from exposure to the coronavirus contagion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-16/farmworker-unions-decry-lax-virus-safety-rules-in-lawsuit

Tell Gov. Inslee to protect farmworkers during COVID-19
https://wagreen.p2a.co/4LcmTYB

Edition: 
April 2020