Sentences with phrase «for farmworkers»

Virginia Ruiz, director of occupational and environmental health for Farmworker Justice, said chlorpyrifos is one of the most dangerous pesticides that farmworkers are exposed to.

Also at 11 a.m., the New York Civil Liberties Union holds press conference to announce legal action it will take regarding mistreatment, abuse and denial of rights for farmworkers in New York state, East Capital Park steps, Albany.

Manhattan U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood also signaled she was leaning toward admitting wiretapped conversations in which Adam Skelos complained about one of Cuomo's daughters lobbying for a farmworkers bill.

The move was celebrated by advocates for farmworkers, but criticized by farmers themselves wh say the legal challenge could threaten their already struggling business.

Hernandez says he worked 12 - hour days at the farm for three years, lost his job and was thrown out of the housing provided to the workers, after he was seen meeting with a community organizer for farmworkers.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters, a coffee shop and wholesaler in Portland, Oregon, works with coffee farmers to create programs for farmworkers, including nutrition education and funding for schools in the farmworkers» communities.

Will Yandik and Zephyr Teachout provided similar takes on the need for domestic protections against terrorism in the wake of the Orlando shooting massacre, the necessity for the federal government to protect LGBT rights, the need for farmworkers to be able to organize and even the person who most embodies New York values — former Rep. Maurice Hinchey.

Stash Grajewski, Director of the Farmworkers Community Center, said it would require concerted efforts to raise awareness, and insisted that the work protections being debated for farmworkers were ones presumed as standard employment practice in other industries.

At 9 a.m., state Sen. Marisol Alcantara and Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan hold a press conference to ask for support for the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act, Legislative Office Building, Room 130, Albany.

The «March For Farmworker Justice» began in front of the Smithtown office of Republican State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan on Sunday, and passed through Brentwood, Bethpage, Garden City and Floral Park before heading into New York City and then up the Hudson Valley.

Nathan Berger, the Long Island coordinator for the Justice for Farmworkers Rural Migrant Ministry, says they are seeking an eight - hour day, overtime, and one guaranteed day off per week, as farm workers are exempt from many state labor laws.

Jose Chapa, Justice for Farmworkers Campaign Coordinator, speaks with Susan Arbetter and Donna Lieberman on the Capitol Pressroom radio program.

Skelos and his son also expressed disdain in a May 2014 email exchange for Cuomo's daughter Michaela Kennedy Cuomo, 16, after news reports surfaced that she lobbied lawmakers for a farmworker bill.

In New York, Mr. Espaillat has spearheaded the drive for a Farmworker's Bill of Rights, which would establish basic protections for a class of laborers exempted under present law.

Listen, too, as it denounces seemingly everyone who would dare tell the Senate that its years of disregard for farmworkers is shameful.

It funds water infrastructure improvements like flood control and aid for farmworkers.

Working with LVC - NA members such as the Farmworkers Association of Florida (FWAF), she helped to launched a campaign on People's Agroecology in the US, as a Just Transition method of farming for farmworkers locked into the toxic industrial agricultural labor market.

If it passes, it will lead to land degradation, toxic chemical exposure for farmworkers, and the loss of endangered species.

Reducing local pesticide use can improve drinking water quality and reduce human exposures to neurotoxins (especially for farmworkers), biking instead of driving reduces carbon emissions and petroleum extraction and makes us exercise, and eating organic whenever possible improves drinking water quality and farm health and significantly reduces our dose of neurotoxins.

So too, the Conservative Party and the Working Families Party, and the AFL - CIO, fighting for labor rights for farmworkers, and the Farm Bureau opposing that cause.

Even Cuomo's ex-wife, Kerry Kennedy, a longtime advocate for farmworkers, who has lobbied at the Capitol in the past, could not get the bill to budge.

They're also concerned about a newly signed law that will boost overtime pay for farmworkers.

Hernandez says he worked 12 hour days at the farm for three years, lost his job and was thrown out of the housing provided to the workers, after he was seen meeting with a community organizer for farmworkers.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo said «equal rights and equal pay» for farmworkers is not incompatible with the administration's commitment to «continued growth of the state's agricultural industry.»

A spokesman for Cuomo said «equal rights and equal pay» for farmworkers is not incompatible with the administration's commitment to «continued growth of the state's agricultural industry.»

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo says «equal rights and equal pay» for farmworkers is not incompatible with the administration's commitment to «continued growth of the state's agricultural industry.»