2009 Annual Report now available
Thursday, 02 September 2010 13:19
Our 2009 Annual Report is hot off the presses!
The new Congress and the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009 offered many opportunities for our nation’s farmworkers to win a new direction in immigration policy, labor law enforcement, occupational safety, and health care access. Read about our accomplishments over the past year in our 2009 Annual Report 
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2010 NYC Wine Tasting
Thursday, 17 June 2010 13:46
Farmworker Justice Socially Responsible Wine Tasting
With wine expert Michael Green
Tuesday evening, September 21, 2010
At Astra, in the Decoration and Design Building, 14th Floor
At 3rd Ave. and 59th Street
New York, NY
6 pm to 8:30 pm
Our Socially Responsible wine-tastings have been become a tradition in the Washington DC area. Now we are expanding to New York City. Join us along with wine expert Michael Green, Wine & Spirits Consultant to Gourmet Magazine, for an educational and fun way to support the work of Farmworker Justice. FJ's Socially Responsible Wine Tastings feature wines produced in vineyards where farmworkers are treated fairly. Find a list of labels from responsible employers here.
Help us empower farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions by sponsoring this event. Sponsorships are available at the levels of:
Magnum $5,000 10 tickets
Premier Cru $2,500 6 tickets
Harvester $1,000 4 tickets
Cultivator $500 2 tickets
Taster $250 1 ticket
Become a sponsor, purchase tickets or just make a donation to this event using the PayPal button below.
Sponsors will be identified in the invitation to the wine tasting and the event.
Donations to Farmworker Justice, a 501(c)(3) organization, are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law.
Weeding Out Abuses: Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system
Monday, 14 June 2010 08:36
Farmworker Justice and Oxfam America are releasing a new report today outlining solutions to rampant violations of labor law in American agriculture. The report, Weeding out Abuses: Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system, shows a broken farm labor system that encourages lawlessness and exploitation of workers and outlines specific recommendations that the Obama Administration can take to increase enforcement and improve the lives of farmworkers around the country.
Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers (UFW) and two farmworkers from Washington state along with representatives from Oxfam America and Farmworker Justice presented the report to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis in a meeting this morning. The groups then held a Congressional briefing in the Capitol Visitor's Center to present the recommendations of the report to a larger audience of media and Congressional staff members.
Read the new report here: Weeding out Abuses: Recommendations for a Law-Abiding Farm Labor System
EPA ends use of toxic pesticide endosulfan
Saturday, 12 June 2010 08:35
On Tuesday, June 8th the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that endosulfan, a highly toxic chemical that is part of the same family of chemicals as DDT, cannot be used safely, and announced that it was terminating all uses of the chemical in the US. Like other organochlorine pesticides, endosulfan is persistent in the environment and poisons humans and wildlife both in agricultural areas and in regions far from where it was applied.
Farmworker Justice has collaborated with other organizations to demand EPA’s ban of this toxic pesticide. In July 2008, Farmworker Justice and Earthjustice sued EPA demanding that the Agency ban the use of endosulfan. This lawsuit was recently dismissed due to jurisdictional reasons. Plantiffs for this case were Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Beyond Pesticides, Center for Environmental Health, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (AFL-CIO), Natural Resources Defense Council, Pesticide Action Network North America, PCUN, United Farm Workers, and Teamsters Local 890.
We are pleased with the EPA's decision to end the use of this chemical and believe that farmworkers, consumers and the environment will be safer and healthier because of it.
