There is no question about the essential role that agriculture plays in our state. Governor Bob Ferguson proclaimed March “Washington Agriculture Month,” recognizing the farmworkers who help feed our ...

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...

Farmworkers looked poised for a long overdue win during the recent session of the Washington State Legislature. Workers in the agricultural industry have long been denied the right to bargain ...

Most people tending America's farm fields were born elsewhere. Increasingly, they are foreign guest workers holding H-2A visas. The Trump administration has made it easier and cheaper for farmers to ...

Many of the women who helped lead the fight for Latino civil rights say they were quietly waging their own battles with harassment, misogyny and sexual assault inside the powerful United Farm Workers ...

The United Farm Workers union says it won’t be participating in any César Chávez Day activities on March 31 after it learned of “troubling” allegations against Chávez, who co-founded the labor ...

A file photo of H-2A workers on a farm in Colorado that grows peaches, grapes, cherries and pears. Guest farm workers holding H-2A visas are more important than ever for agriculture, especially after ...

The civil rights icon had a history of sexually abusing women and girls, which the Times reporters Manny Fernandez and Sarah Hurtes spent five years uncovering. They spoke to “The Daily” about their ...