Farmworkers

Volunteers in California are working to ensure that the thousands of farmworkers who toil in the fields every day are receiving coronavirus vaccinations

A pop-up exhibit dedicated to labor leader and Latino American civil rights activist Cesar Chavez will open Saturday at the Donald and Bernice Watson Recreation Trail in Duarte.

Undocumented farm workers put themselves at risk for COVID-19 to keep the country fed during the pandemic. Now a bill sponsored by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a senior Democrat from California, would give them a path to legal residency.

More vaccines are headed to California’s vast Central Valley, an agricultural region whose workers and residents have been hard hit by coronavirus, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

When COVID-19 hit the U.S., a nonprofit that serves Indigenous Mexican migrant communities in California saw that most public health information was available only in English and Spanish. So the organization, Proyecto Mixteco Indígena, decided to use its radio station, Radio Indígena 94.1 FM, to broadcast vital information in Mixtec, Zapotec, Purépecha and other Indigenous Mexican languages.

The images of the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Juan Diego arrived, accompanied by mariachi, to visit the field workers in Moorpark Thursday.

The image of the Virgin of Guadalupe and San Juan Diego visited field workers in Moorpark. John Cádiz Klemack reports for the NBC4 News.

The Port of Los Angeles and the CMA CGM Group shipping company donated 75,000 respiratory face masks on Monday to California farmworkers coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfire smoke, and extreme heat.

As hundreds of fires rage from the Bay Area to here in Ventura County, the resulting smoke has created a hazy “soup” that sometimes obliterates entire hillsides. Some were able to do on Friday what health officials had been recommending and “reduce outdoor activities if you can see or smell smoke.” But not everyone has that option.  Lucy, for one,…

Wildfires have poured toxic smoke into the air and health departments are urging people to stay inside. NBC’s Gordon Tokumatsu reports live on August 21, 2020.

Gianna Nino-Tapias got a masters degree from Stanford University in epidemiology, but is now working with her family as a migrant farm worker after losing her job due to the coronavirus. She joined LX News to discuss her viral tweet and conditions for migrant workers during the pandemic.

Health officials said Wednesday that farm workers in Ventura County will now be able to get tested for COVID-19 for free and without having to make an appointment. Since many of them live together in small rooms where social distancing is sometimes not possible, officials say it is of the utmost importance for them to be able to get tested…

Over 100 farmworkers tested positive for coronavirus at Villa Las Brisas in Oxnard.

A mariachi band thanked fieldworkers in Bakersfield, Calif., for their work during the pandemic with a free concert.

With so many people working during the pandemic, a North County group gathered to thank farmworkers by having a “Caravan of Appreciation.”

California farms are still working to supply food to much of the United States amid the coronavirus