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Current heat related news and information (2008 & 2009)

07/08/2008

CA Heat Regulations - News and Information (2009 & 2008)

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08/03/2009 Los Angeles Times: Targeting heat-related farm deaths	7/30/2009 Landmark Lawsuit Accuses State of Failing to Protect Farm Workers from Heat-Related Death and Illness
08/02/2009 Desert Sun: Board files proposal to update heat regulations for state farmworks	Video from Landmark Lawsuit Accuses State of Failing to Protect Farm Workers from Heat-Related Death and Illness
07/31/2009 New York Times: Farm Workers' Union Sues California Agency Over Rules on Heat Safety	7/28/2009 A Vigil to Honor Farm Workers Who Died from Heat-related illness Brings Interfaith Groups Together in Los Angeles
07/30/2009 abc7.com: Calif. sued over farm worker safety	Video from UFW/NFWM Interfaith Vigil for the 15 farm workers have died heat-related deaths since 2004
07/30/2009 Los Angeles Times: Farmworkers sue state for failing to enforce heat protection laws	07/25/2009 Thousands Pray for Farm Workers Who Have Died from Heat-related Illness While Harvesting Crops that Feed Americans
07/30/2009 Fresno Bee: Cal-OSHA sued for alleged inability to protect farm laborers	07/08/2009 Conference Seeks to Motivate Students to Fight for Farm Worker Rights on Anniversary of Farm Worker Audon Felix?Heat Death; Featured Speaker Niece, Alma Felix
07/30/2009 The Desert Sun: ACLU to sue state over heat-related deaths	Video from Alma Felix talks about the heat death of her uncle, farm worker, Audon Felix Garcia on the one yeasr anniversary of his death
07/30/2009 89.3 KPCC: Farmworkers sue CA over rest breaks, shade, water	Daily Kos: Request from Alma Felix on the anniversary of the heat death of her uncle
06/29/2009 KCRA: Farm Advocates: Vines Don't Count As Shade	Daily Kos: New Cal-OSHA heat regs still won't work
06/23/2009 Los Angeles Times: In the Coachella Valley, hope withers on the vine	06/18/2009: Legal Groups Say "Exceptions and Loopholes" make State Proposal to Protect Farm Workers from Heat Totally Inadequate
06/19/2009 Modesto Bee: Worker heat reform falters	06/18/2009: Legal Groups Say State Proposal to Protect Farmworkers from Summer Heat Is “Totally Inadequate”
06/19/2009 Capitol Press: California official directed to rework heat safety rules	06/04/2009 Daily Kos: This Water is for Display Only
06/19/2009 Sacramento Bee: Cal-OSHA board delays heat-stress rule changes	05/16/2009 Daily Kos: A Matter of Life and Death. Really. How to End California's Harvest of Shame.
06/19/2009 ABC 7: Stricter laws to protect farm workers	05/13/200: UFW, Community Hold Vigil to Remember Fallen Teen Farm Worker
06/18/2009 EHS Today: Cal/OSHA Compliance Officers Say OSHAB's Unfair Policies Impact Their Ability to Protect CA Workers	04/23/2009 UFW Applauds Charges Against 3 Merced Farm Labor Top Officials on 17-year-old Farm Worker's Death Last Year
06/18/2009: Associated Press: Calif. board orders revisions to heat rules	California Progress Report: Farmworker Free Choice Bill Passes Senate Committee
06/18/2009 Pacifica Radio: Emergency response to overheating farmers	SB 789 Bill Analysis
06/18/2009 KGO TV: Cal OSHA considers new heat laws	10/01/2008 UFW Statement on Veto of AB 2386
06/18/2009: Desert Sun: More demanded from state to stop heat-related deaths	10/01/2008 Statement of Assembly Speaker Emeritus Fabian Nunez on Veto of AB 2386, Secret Ballot for Farmworkers Bill
06/13/2009: Salinas Californian: Sacramento upgrades heat guidelines for labor companies	Suspected Heat Related Farm Worker Deaths: July 2004-July 2008
06/08/2009: Huffington Post: Exclusive Video: Martin Sheen Speaks Out for Farm Workers	Sospechadas muertes de trabajadores agrícolas debido al calor: Julio de 2004-julio de 2008
05/15/2009: Sacramento Bee: Editorial: Turn up the heat on safety in the fields	08/18/2008: More than 700 Farm Workers will Lobby State Legislators
Stockton Record:Three charged in farm death	08/18/2008: Letter from UFW President Arturo S, Rodriguez to Legislators
04/23/2009 Stockton Record: Manslaughter charges filed in 2008 death of 17-year-old farmworker	08/15/2008 Daily Kos: Fighting Back on Heat Deaths: Farm Workers going to Sacramento
04/23/2009 Associated Press: 3 charged in Calif in teen farmworker's death	08/08/2008: Coachella Valley Farm Worker Latest Victim to Succumb to Probable Heat-Related Causes
04/23/2009 Business Week: Calif. bill would ease unionization of farmworkers	08/07/2008 Press Release & Photos: Funeral Arrangements for Jorge Herrera, 5th farm worker to die this year due to heat
04/23/2009: KION: Bill Passes To Help Farm Workers Organize, Enforce Workplace Laws	08/01/2008: Heatstroke Claims Life of 14th Farm Worker; Jorge Herrera Had Been Hospitalized Since July 9
04/23/2009: The Salinas Californian: Calif. Senate approves farm worker organizing bill	08/01/2008 La Insolación Cobra la vida de Decimocuarto Campesino; Jorge Herrera Estuvo Internado Desde el 9 de Julio
04/01/2009: The Salinas Californian: UFW-supported bill would give new option for farmworkers to unionize	08/01/2008: Blog: Docudharma.com: Another Farm Worker dies. Does anyone give a damn?
10/01/2008 Salinas Californian: Schwarzenegger rejects secret ballots for farmworkers	07/30/2008 Blog: The Sanctuary: United Farm Workers Calls for Manslaughter Charges
08/28/2008 Sacramento Bee: Labor contractor gives up license after heat death	07/25/2008 Blog: Five Husbands: He’s Not Heavy, He’s An Illegal: farm worker safety debate
08/21/2008 Sacramento Bee: In California's fields, risks rise with the temperature	7/24/2008 UFW News Release - Fines aren't enough. There must be criminal prosecution in the death of 17 year old heat victim
08/21/2008 Associated Press: More farm deaths in heat despite Calif. crackdown	07/25/2008 Daily Kos: United Farm Workers Calls for Manslaughter Charges Against Company in Death of 17 Year Old
08/18/2008 Associated Press: California could change farm worker union votes	07/15/2008: VIDEO: Delegation of UFW supporters to to Trader Joe's turning in around 15,000 letters re: "2 Buck Chuck" & Heat death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
08/17/2008 Salinas Californian: More than 700 farm workers to rally in Capitol against heat-related deaths	Senator Dean Florez letter to Marko B. Zaninovich, President Sunview Vineyards of California (where Abdon Felix was working)
08/12/2008 Lodi News-Sentinel: State fines Galt contractor $77,900 for safety violations	07/09/2008 UFW News Release - Heat Claims Life of Second Farm Worker in Past Month - Santa Maria man died while working in 110 degree heat
08/11/2008 KMIR ch. 6: Farm Worker Death	07/09/2008 El calor Reclama la Vida de Segundo Trabajador Agrícola en el Mes Pasado
08/09/2008 Riverside Press Enterprise: Inland farmworker's death is investigated	07/04/2008 UFW News Release - License Reinstatement Slap in the Face to the Memory of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
08/07/2008 KBAK: Funeral service held today for a farm worker who died from heat	07/04/2008 LICENCIA RESTABLECIDA, BOFETADA A LA MEMORIA DE MARIA ISABEL VASQUEZ JIMENEZ
08/02/2008 Fresno Bee: Farmworker dies after collapsing at vineyards	Blog: Daily Kos: 17 yr. old farm worker who died of heat stroke connected to "Two-Buck Chuck."
08/02/2008 Los Angeles Times: A real heat shield for farmworkers	06/20/2008 UFW condena la despedida de Doroteo Jiménez
08/01/2008 Associated Press: State probes 12 possible worker heat deaths	06/20/2008 UFW News Release - UFW Condemns Firing of Doroteo Jimenez
08/01/2008 Central Valley Business Times: Another farm worker dies from heat illness - Fifth death this summer, ‘The black summer for farm workers’	Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Heat-Related Deaths Among Crop Workers --- United States, 1992--2006
07/26/2008 Bakersfield Californian: What's enough shade at work? Rule interpretation varies greatly	06/18/2008 UFW News Release - Wrongful Death Lawsuit to be Filed on Behalf of Family of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
07/24/2008 Stockton Record: State fines labor firm over death	18/06/2008: La demanda por una muerte injusta será archivada de parte de la familia de Maria Isabel Vásquez Jiménez
07/23/2008 Sacramento Bee: Farm labor contracting company fined after heat stroke death	Farm worker pilgrimage reaches Capitol (Video)
07/23/2008 Associated Press: Farm labor contractor fined in worker's death	Farm workers make pilgrimage to Capitol (Video)
07/22/2008 Alternet: How Many More Workers Will We Let Die in the Fields This Summer?	06/04/08: Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, Honoring Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, June 4, 2008—state Capitol, Sacramento
07/20/2008 KMPH: Valley Family Says Heat Exhaustion Killed Relative	06/04/08: Mensaje de Arturo S. Rodriguez, Presidente, Union de Campesinos, Honrando a Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, 4 de junio, 2008--Capitolio Estatal, Sacramento
07/19/2008 Associated Press: Fourth possible heat-related death investigated	Pilgrimage for Fallen Farm Workers Day 4 /Peregrinacion por Campesinos Caidos Dia 4 - Ricardo Macias
07/18/2008 The Free Press: A summer of deadly heat, by Dick Meister	Pilgrimage for Fallen Farm Workers Day 4/Peregrinacion por Campesinos Caidos Dia 4 - Thomas Montoya
07/16/2008 Associated Press: Farmworker clings to life after heat stroke	06/04/2008: Peregrinacion Photos Day 3
07/16/2008 KBAK ch 29: Last week's heat wave takes it toll on residents of Bakersfield	06/03/2008: Perigrino Blog & Photos, Day 3
07/15/2008 KPFA - UFW delegation turns in close to 15,000 letters to Trander Joe's regarding Charles Shaw and the heat heath of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez	06/02/2008 UFW News Release - Day 2: Peregrinacion for the Fallen Farm Worker
07/15/2008 KERO ch 23: Worker Collapses While In Orchard	*06/02/2008: Photos of Pilgrimage for Fallen Farm Workers, Day 1/Fotos de Peregrinacion por Campesinos Caidos, Dia uno*
07/15/2008 Sacramento Bee: Heat puts farm worker on breathing machine - Three others have died from heat-related illness.	Peregrimacion route: **SUBJECT TO CHANGE
07/14/2008 Central Valley Business Times: Another Central Valley farm worker apparently dies of heat illness - Brings to four the number of farm worker heat deaths this summer	06/02/2008 CTW Connect: The Short Life and Preventable Death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
07/14/2008 Sacramento Bee: Death under the sun - Another farm fatality underlines risks	05/30/2008 UFW News Release - Four-day Lodi to State Capitol Farm Worker Peregrinacion in Honor of Teen and Other Workers Who Have Died From Heat
07/12/2008 Central Valley Business Times: Senator launches Delano heat death inquiry	05/30/2008 Peregrinación de cuatro días desde Lodi hacia la Capital del Estado en honor de los adolescentes y otros trabajadores que han muerto por el calor.
07/11/2008 KSBY: Santa Maria family searches for answers in death of field worker	Maria's Story
07/11/2008 Bakersfield Californian: Possible heat death prompts questions from local lawmaker	Video: Maria's fiance Florentino Bautista talks about what happened on May 14./Video: El comprometido de Maria, Florentino Bautista, habla sobre lo que paso el 14 de mayo
07/11/2008 KCOY: Heat wave victim laid to rest.	Video: Excerpts from press availability before peregrimacion kickoff
07/11/2008 Sacramento Bee: State investigating third farmworker fatality in scorching weather	Video: de la conferencia de prensa antes del comienzo de la peregrinacion
07/11/2008 Porterville Recorder: UFW leader says heat to blame for farmworkers’ deaths	05/28/2008 UFW News Release - Memorial Service for 17-Year-Old Farm Worker; First Heat-Related Death This Year
07/11/2008 News10.net: Third, Possible Heat-Related Farmworker Death Investigated	Photos of the funeral of 17-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez/Fotos de el funeral de Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
07/10/2008 KGET: Kern County Heat Wave	05/28/2008 Remarks by UFW President Arturo S. Rodriguez at Funeral Services for Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez, a 17-Year Old Farm Worker Who Died Due to the Heat
07/10/2008 KGET: Heat Death Victim Identified	05/28/2008 Comentarios por Arturo S. Rodriguez, el presidente, United Farm Workers of America, Servicios para Maria Isabel Vasquez Jiménez, El 28 de mayo, 2008—Lodi, California.
07/10/2008 Sacramento Bee: Cal-OSHA investigating third possible farm laborer heat death	5/30/08: Another Daily Kos Blog on the death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
07/10/2008 Associated Press: More heat-related incidents reported	Radio Campesina PSA re: Peregrinacion
07/10/2008 Bakersfield Californian: Farm workers union complains about heat-related deaths	5/29/08: Daily Kos Blog on the death of Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez
07/10/2008 KERO ch 23: Heat Wave Strikes Farm Workers Living In Field - UFW Concerned After 3 Heat-Related Deaths In 2 Months	'This Tragedy Happened Because of Greed' Farm workers: UFW's founder spoke to the same issues 25 years ago as were raised by a 1999 van accident that killed 13 - From LA Times: 8/27/99
07/10/2008 KMPH: Heat Could Be To Blame In Two Farmworker Deaths
07/10/2008 KERO ch 23: Heat Possibly Claims Worker's Life
07/10/2008 KBAK: Heat Wave Alert-Farm workers suffer brunt of heat one dies, two sick
07/09/2008 KCRA: Heat Claims Life of Another Farm Worker - 64-Year-Old Man Died On 110-Degree Day
07/09/2008 NPR: California Checks On Farmworkers In Heat Wave
07/08/2008 SF Bay Guardian: Bucking off Chuck - Death of 17-year-old pregnant farm worker incites campaign against Trader Joe's
07/08/2008 La Opinion: Incierto el futuro de la compañía Merced Farm Labor
07/08/2008 La Opinion: Grave riesgo trabajar en el campo - Las posibilidades de morir por insolación son 20 veces mayores
07/06/2008 Stockton Record: Labor union seeks Trader Joe's assistance - Calls on grocery chain to toughen vendor policies
07/04/2008 Sacramento Bee: Merced labor contractor reopens, then is shut down again
07/04/2008 Stockton Record: Labor firm ordered to cease again - It was shut down temporarily after teen worker died
07/04/2008 Central Valley Business Times: Farm labor contractor shut down – again. Merced Farm Labor was back in business until Thursday afternoon. Contractor not in compliance with regulations says CalOSHA
07/04/08 San Francosco Chronicle: Farm firm back after teen's death
07/02/2008 The Cleveland Free Times: TWO-BUCK CHUCK DUCK
06/27/2008 The Dominion: Death in the Field - An interview with Arturo Rodriguez of the UFW
06/23/2008 Riverside Press Enterprise: Judge orders shade, water for a company's Coachella Valley farm workers
06/23/2008 La Opinion: Despedido luego de interponer demanda - Doroteo Jiménez es el tío de una campesina muerta por insolación
06/22/2008 Monterey County Herald: Heat is farmworker's deadliest enemy
06/21/2008 Stockton Record: Uncle of girl who died from heatstroke is fired
06/20/2008 ABC World News Tonight: Protecting Field Workers - Many migrant workers are in danger due to the extreme heat in California
06/20/2008 McCLATCHY News Service: Heat kills crop workers at rate 20 times higher than others
06/19/2008 El Financiero: Demandan a empresas por muerte de mexicana en EU
06/19/2008 Merced Sun Star: Family of teen who died in vineyard sues field owner, labor contractor (Print & video)
06/19/2008 Sacramento Bee: Farmworker's family sues over California heat-related death
06/19/2008 Stockton Record: Coroner - Heat stroke killed laborer
06/19/2008 Lodi News-Sentinel: 17-year-old died due to heat stroke
06/18/2008 ABC 30 (Video): Wrongful Death Lawsuit Filed Following Death of Teen Farm Worker
06/18/2008 KSEE 24: Lawsuit filed against labor contractor after pregnant worker's death
06/18/2008 Associated Press: County officials say farmworker died of heat stroke
06/18/2008 La Opinion: Demandan por campesina muerta
06/17/2008 KRCA: Family Of Dead Farmworker Plans Lawsuit
06/16/2008 Stockton Record: Attention to farm safety is overdue
06/15/2008 Modesto Bee: Second farm contractor ordered to shut down
06/13/2008 ABC 30 (Video): Workplace Heat -Two Companies Feel the Heat after the Death of an Employee
06/13/2008 CBS 47: Farms Raided to Protect Farmworkers
06/13/2008 Stockton Record: Labor contractor barred from fields
06/13/2008 Decanter.com: Worker died pruning on Two Buck Chuck co-owner's land
06/13/2008 Modesto Bee: State shuts down Merced Farm Labor
06/13/2008 Lodi News-Sentinel: Contractor that hired farmworker who died put out of business
06/10/2008 Sacramento Bee: Labor inspectors root out violations along Central Valley back roads
06/05/2008 Associated Press: Farmworker's death prompts calls for Calif. reform
06/05/2008 Sacramento Bee: Video: March to the capitol
06/05/2008 Sacramento Bee: State to revoke license of farm labor contractor
06/05/2008 Stoclton Record Net Video: Farm labor advocates called on state legislators to amend a bill that would make it easier for farm workers to unionize after a four-day march from Lodi and vigil for Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez.
06/05/2008 Stockton Record: Farm workers hope bill, unity will harvest change
06/05/2008 06/05/2008 El Financiero: Retira Schwarzenegger licencia a contratista que dejó morir a joven
06/05/2008 Univisión: EEUU: Exigen reformas agrícolas tras caso de jornalera muerta
06/04/2008 KRCA 3: Marchers honor farm workers who died
06/04/2008 News10.net: Farmworker "Peregrinacion" Ends At State Capitol
06/04/2008: NPR: The Califronia Report: Death of a Farmworker
06/04/2008 UPI: Schwarzenegger warns farm contractors
06/04/2008 Associated Press: After worker death, state may revoke contractor's license
06/04/2008 Sacramento Bee: Labor contractor in farm worker death case may lose license
06/04/2008 Stockton Record: Farm workers to finish pilgrimage
06/04/2008 Stockton Record: Farm labor sweep uncovers boy, 12, working in SJ orchard
06/03/2008 Univisión: Crece polémica tras muerte de campesina
06/03/2008 Associated Press: On march to honor farmworker, relatives call for reforms
06/03/2008 NBC11: Pregnant Girl's Death In Field Sparks March To Capitol
06/03/2008 Rotativo: Migrante embarazada murió insolada en campo agrícola de EU
06/03/2008 Stockton Record: Labor law officials inspect Valley working conditions
06/02/2008 Stockton Record: Farmworkers make vigil to the capitol (Video)
06/02/2008 News10.net: Hundreds Begin Four-Day March in Lodi in Memory of Fallen Farm Worker
06/02/2008 News10.net: Farm Worker Memorial March Begins in Lodi (Video)
06/02/2008 Sacramento Bee: Trek of sorrow
06/02/2008 Stockton Record: One step at a time
06/02/2008 Modesto Bee: Farmers must share in keeping workers safe
06/02/2008 Notimex: Protestan en California por muerte de 10 mexicanos
06/02/2008: Lodi News-Sentinel: 500 march on behalf of fallen teen farm worker
06/01/2008 Associated Press: March begins to honor fallen farmworker
06/01/2008 Stockton Record: Pilgrimage honors farm worker
05/31/2008 CBS 5: Officials Investigate Lodi Farmworker's Death (video)
05/31/2008 Sacramento Bee: Editorial - A tragedy in the farm fields is all too familiar
05/30/2008:Sacramento Bee Multimedia presentation of Maria's funeral
05/30/2008: Stockton Record: Death sparks calls for more enforcement
05/30/2008 Sacramento Bee: Employer of farmworker who died had been fined for violations in 2006
05/28/2008 KQED: Story on Maria Isobel Jimenez' death
05/29/2008 Associated Press: County officials begin criminal probe into farmworker death
05/29/2008 Sacramento Bee: Teen farmworker's death, probed as heat-related, stirs outcry
5/29/2008: Univision: Preocupan condiciones laborales en EU
05/29/2008 La Opinion: Lamentan muerte de campesina por insolación
05/29/2008 Stockton Record: Grief and anger - Boyfriend says farm laborer, just 17, died amid illegal work conditions
5/29/2008 El Universal: Confirma Cancillería muerte de jornalera mexicana en EU
05/28/2008 Associated Press: Mexico blames California employer for death of vineyard worker
5/28/2008 Terra España: México denuncia situación laboral en EEUU tras muerte de menor embarazada
05/28/2008 Stockton Record: Outdoor workers risk, sometimes lose their lives when temperature soars
05/28/2008 News10.net: Farmworker's Service Attended by Governor
05/27/2008 News10.net: Contractor Investigated in Farmworker's Death was Cited in Past
05/23/2008 Stockton Record: Teen worker's death probed