Sentences with phrase «supports farmworker»

Two produce industry members have joined the Equitable Food Initiative board, representing growers on the organization that supports farmworker issues.

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With support of the CRLA Foundation, she co-founded Líderes Campesinas, in 1992, the first state - based farmworker women's unique grass roots organization that became a movement of campesina leaders advocating on behalf of campesinas.

Albany Bishop Howard Hubbard, who accompanied Dolan into the Cuomo meeting, said a number of other topics came up, including farmworkers rights — a new one for the church, which is formally taking a position in support this year — and prisoners rights as well as low - income housing — all issues for which Cuomo was an outspoken advocate before he won the 2006 AG's race.

The state's Green Party is calling on Sen. Cecilia Tkaczyk to support legislation that would establish a bill of rights for farmworkers, saying the senator should get behind the legislation because she ran on the party line in 2012.

Just listen to the state Farm Bureau, which calls the Assembly's support for such basic rights «a vote against New York's hard - working farm families and the farmworkers employed.»

«In addition to the purchase of development rights program, Ulster County's support for agriculture includes endorsement of Agricultural Districts, our recently awarded farmworker housing program, and funding for Cornell Cooperative Extension.