Allowing another employer to escape responsiblity for the way they treat their workers, a federal appeals court has rejected a key section of a ruling that Florida tomato grower AgMart provided inadequate housing for farmworkers.

The Juliana Mateo Foundation for Disabled Farmworkers is a new foundation in Florida aiming to help farmworkers who have suffered on-the-job injuries. Story in the Bradenton Herald.

New project provides online personal health records for California farmworkers Having access to their personal health records from anywhere is an important step towards greater health care for families constantly on the move such as migrant farmworkers. The project, funded by the state of California, is administered through La Cooperativa Campesina de California, an organization that provides support services to farmworkers.

Farmworker Safety Still Inadequate -editorial in Monterrey Herald by Michael Marsh and Dorothy Johnson of California Rural Legal Assistance.

Congressmen Joe Baca and Luis Gutierrez call on the President to stop the workplace immigration raids.

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