The Gazette

As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers increasingly at risk

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. One hot day last summer, Clarisa Lugo was inspecting and counting corn and soybean plants in the middle ...
Los Angeles Times

Farmworkers keep dying from heat illness, 20 years after California vowed to protect them

Two decades after California enacted a landmark heat safety law, farmworkers are still getting sick and sometimes dying from preventable heat illness. Cal/OSHA says it is working to improve ...
Los Angeles Times

The heat-safety law isn’t enough. Farmworkers are still dying every summer

These are the cruelest days of harvest, when the sun turns fields into slow ovens and the heat climbs before breakfast, holding on until the stars are out. By nightfall, the damage is done: another ...
Corp Watch

PepsiCo Rejects Shareholder Resolution on Exploitation of Female Sugarcane Workers in India

PepsiCo refused to allow a shareholder resolution requesting the company look into allegations that it is buying sugar from female farm workers in Maharashtra, India, who are coerced into undergoing ...
Chico Enterprise-Record

As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk

One hot day last summer, Clarisa Lugo was inspecting and counting corn and soybean plants in the middle of a 300-acre farm field in Illinois when she started throwing up and panting. Her heart raced, ...