Covid Deaths Should Not Be Used For Financial and Political Gain
- What's Cooking
- August 13, 2020
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Unions Race to Blame Farms for Worker Deaths0
- Latest News
- August 13, 2020
As two employees succumb to the effects of community spread of Covid-19, competing farmworker unions are trying to exploit these tragedies for financial and political gain. Every death from the pandemic is a terrible tragedy. But, it is simply wrong to try to exploit these tragedies for the purpose of financial and political gain. United
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Columbia Legal Services Lawyers’ Latest Suit An Abuse of the Legal System0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News, Protecting Farmworker Jobs
- July 27, 2020
UFW leader says farm worker lawyers lied in recent court case Columbia Legal Services lawyers lied. At least that’s what Erik Nicholson, National Vice President of the United Farm Workers, said in a court declaration. CLS attorneys represent Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), a tiny one farm union, and Community to Community, the union
READ MOREFUJ Leader and attorneys called out for lies by UFW Vice President0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News
- July 21, 2020
Erik Nicholson’s court statement accuses Guillen’s team of lying in a court document–that’s perjury! Rosalinda Guillen and her one-farm union Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) lost in court in their effort to impose the “bunk bed rule” on Washington farmers. Hidden within the story reported in Capital Press is the real story. That Rosalinda,
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EPA Lied. Farms Died.0
- Clean Groundwater, Clean Water, EPA Nitrate Study, Latest News, Nitrate Fact Check
- July 6, 2020
The EPA created a false science report and despite warnings by other agencies, used it for enforcement against family farmers. This led to the killing of farms and caused widespread losses to Washington family dairies. Government studies of this significance require independent peer review by federal policy. If properly reviewed the study would never have
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Crosscut Report Shows Shameful Disregard for the Facts0
- Farmworker Protection, Farmworkers' Voice, Latest News, Media Fact Check, Press
- June 30, 2020
Emily McCarty’s June 29 article in Crosscut represents false and biased reporting that exacerbates the urban-rural divide that Knute Berger revealed in his January 9, 2018 article and several since then. Calling highly valued farm workers “sacrificial lambs” is deeply offensive. Farmers have gotten accustomed to such outrageous accusations from Rosalinda Guillen who openly claims
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Carbon Farming: The Present and Future of Agriculture0
- A Future for Farming, Latest News, Sustainable Farms
- June 29, 2020
All farmers know that the element carbon is a valuable resource. This element is essential to all living things and can be found in everything from our bodies to our food to soil to cow manure. In North Central Indiana, a farmer named Brent Bible has taken the importance of carbon to a new level.
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Governor Inslee Protecting Washington’s Grapefruit Workers?0
- A Future for Farming, Latest News, Media Fact Check, Press, Uncategorized
- June 15, 2020
On May 28 Governor Inslee and United Farm Workers Union executive Erik Nicholson announced new rules that will protect farm workers in Washington. Specifically, Governor Inslee noted that he was glad grapefruit workers were going to gain from this “step forward” as he enjoyed a “great grapefruit” that morning. The Governor thanked Erik Nicholson for
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Farm worker union “Victory!” cries may not be what you think0
- Farmworker Protection, Latest News, Media Fact Check, Worker Safety
- June 12, 2020
