Farm workers under a UFW contract a Gallo vineyards are starting their work day with "la escuelita" where a lead worker demonstrates exactly how the company wants the pruning done. #WeFeedYou

"Raul" is pruning grape vines in Madera. "The work's physically exhausting. I earn 31 cents per plant and must keep a steady pace throughout the day to make enough. The repetitive cutting and bending causes my arms & hands to cramp as I do this work for hours on end." #WeFeedYou

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Not watching tonight. I won't take any version of, "Fred, what does he have to do to win the speech?" which is all they have on offer. Read @froomkin.bsky.social for what they could do instead, but won't. presswatchers.org/2026/02/trum...

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. RFK Jr. is a disgrace.

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

“I reject the lie that deporting my neighbor is how I win better pay and working conditions. We’re fighting for a country where families stay together without living in terror, so we’re ALL better off!”

"Julio" is tying up the vines of grapevines that have just been pruned. The sky is cloudy and it looks like it's going to rain at any minute. He's concerned because once the rain starts, workers are sent home and they don't earn wages for the rest of the day. #WeFeedYou

Chocolate covered strawberries are a great #ValentinesDay treat. Let's give a cheer for workers like "Eva" who was laboring in Ventura County CA. She had to trudging through slippery muddy rows to bring this sweet fruit to our table. #WeFeedYou

SB6045, a bill to allow farm worker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on in WAs Senate. This bill is critical for WA farm workers like those at Windmill mushroom who have been fighting to get a contract since 2022. Take action today: act.seiu.org/a/waorganizi...

Every strawberry tells a love story. Not the kind sold in candy, but a story rooted in sacrifice. Farmworkers harvest with care, yet they face low wages and fear. Love means respect. Love means justice. Love means standing with farmworkers. #ValentinesDay #WeFeedYou

Goliath packaged food industry loses 12y battle to keep farce of voluntary star labelling with big win to public health Davids like @georgeinstitute.bsky.social @alikjones.bsky.social Jane Martin. Kudos! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's appropriate on #BlackHistoryMonth we uplift Kevin's voice. He's been a Jamaican H2A worker for the last 10 yrs & is excited over the implementation of his UFW contract at NYs Wafler Farms. He's looking forward to getting the benefits his contract provides. #UnionsForAll

In the historically anti-union South, the UAW just secured a landmark contract with Volkswagen. The workers won major wage increases, job security against outsourcing, and higher-quality healthcare. Congratulations to these workers, and remember: there is always hope in labor.

"Karla" has worked under a UFW contract for 20 years at a vineyard in Soledad, CA. During peak season she is a tractor operator. However currently, she's pruning the grapevines. "Thanks to my seniority I am able to start working as soon as the season begins." #WeFeedYou

"Iliana" has been working in the strawberry fields in Watsonville, CA for the last 16 years. "She and her coworkers are currently planting strawberries. "I get very tired because I have to bend over all day long to do this type of work. But it feeds my family." #WeFeedYou

Distinctions from @jayrosen.bsky.social — long post, worth it. @media-studies.bsky.social @pamelamejia.bsky.social @katherineschaff.bsky.social check out his distinction between journalism and media.

One year after the Bakersfield raids of January 2025. Kern County is no stranger to struggle. Just like the Delano Grape Strike of the 1960s, our communities will not give up. Together we will continue the fight for justice and dignity. #WeFeedYou #ICEOut

"Juan" is preparing Merced CA sweet potato fields for the start of the season. He gets paid hourly to make hotbeds so the new harvest can start. He wakes up early in the morning and drives to work in dense fog. #WeFeedYou

"Saul" has been pruning in the grape vineyards for 25+ years during this time of year. "It is good honest work. It's very cold in the mornings, so we dress warmly. When we get home, our hands ache from the repetitive work." #WeFeedYou

As ICE terrorizes our communities, farmworkers are still feeding this country — every single day. #WeFeedYou

Our 1996 gun law reforms worked spectacularly well, averting 16 massacres that would have occurred should the pre 1996 trend have continued. This 2018 piece summarises our research. www.smh.com.au/national/stu... L

A good day to be reminded of how #racism permeates everyday living. #mlk This vintage Prismacolor set is from the mid-1980s. They’ve since changed the name of the color from Flesh to Peach.

Leeks are great in soup at this time of year. Thankfully, workers on California’s Central Coast are packing and loading up the day’s harvest for your soup bowl. #WeFeedYou

Immigrant advocates count gains, mourn losses a year after local sweeps www.bakersfield.com/news/immigra...

On this day at 10am it was 41° in Mettler CA were these workers are hard at work in the tangerine harvest. "Ana" says, "The cold temperatures stiffens our hands and slows our movement, but we keep on going. Our work puts citrus on tables are crossed the country." #WeFeedYou

"Armando" prunes grapes in Fresno County. “By the end of day my hands cramp due to constant repetitive movement. The company provides pruning scissors but they are low quality and often very dull. Some of us buy our own - which we can barely afford on minimum wage.” #WeFeedYou

"Saul" and "Juan" work as irrigators in CAs Imperial Valley. Here they are removing the irrigation from the broccoli rapini fields, so that the machine can come in to harvest the crop. #WeFeedYou

It was 40° and windy when "Maria" share this video with us from where she and her coworkers were harvesting carrots. "It's hard working in these harsh weather conditions. Things blow in your eyes and it is very cold, but his how we feed our families." #WeFeedYou

Fresno county farm workers are planting onion seeds for next years' harvest. They are basically bent over or on their knees on cold damp ground all day long. In this cold and weather that is hard on their body and they share their bones ache at the end of the day. #WeFeedYou

Workers in King City CA are harvesting broccoli. They earn piece rate so try to go as fast as they can so they could earn more money. However this field has been harvested before and this is the last pass. It is hard to harvest enough to make more than minimum wage. #WeFeedYou

"Raul" is repairing irrigation pipes for next year in Soledad CA. "During the season, many pipes break. Now that there isn't a lot of irrigation going on, us irrigators are taking advantage of the opportunity to repair the damaged ones." #WeFeedYou

Your headline @nytimes.com writer has failed you today, @lorakelley.bsky.social: 249,000 civilian jobs were not “shed” this year. The federal gov’t is not some animal that molts — this was a callous, illegal attack by those who sent thousands home to access private data and profit at our expense.

Farm workers join workers around the world in condemning U.S. aggression in Latin America. Too many children of the farm workers who feed the United States have been sent to fight overseas while their families can’t put food on the table at home.

Mushroom workers take fight to Washington Supreme Court nwlaborpress.org/2025/12/mush...

"Geo" share this video from where he's pruning cherry trees. "It is very cold out here. Start at 6: 30 am and it's breezy with a lot of humidity in the air. Our hands feel like they’re freezing. We work in 8 hour day and are paid CA minimum wage." #WeFeedYou

These farm workers work under a UFW contract in a plant nursery in Tulare Country. They're sorting and trimming rootstock. Their wages start at $17.43/hr, w/a increase to $17.95/hr on January 1. They get a $3.00 bonus when the team completes 800 plants in a day. #WeFeedYou

Agree 100% with this.

Farm workers are hard at work in in Fresno CA harvesting pomegranates. They earn minimum wage and spend their days filling sacks that weigh up around 60 pounds when full. They then dump the sacks into the bins. A tractor hauls the full bins to cold storage. #WeFeedYou

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

"Moises" climbs up and down a ladder dozens of times a day carrying 60 pounds of pomegranates trying to fill a 900lb bin. He earns minimum wage for this hard work. #WeFeedYou

Here's @mcbride.house.gov's speech, pt. 1:

"Saul" works under a UFW contract in CAs Imperial Valley fields as a tractor driver. "I've done this for many years. I'm happy because I have very good health insurance that covers me and my family. Thanks to my union contract, I don't pay anything for it." #WeFeedYou

US gun nuts in current freefall about how Australia's 1996 reforms "failed". Our evisceration of an academic NRA darling's woeful critique of our 20yr review in @jama.com ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

"Raúl" was picking oranges in Visalia CA. "We fill 5 bins in a 6 hours and get paid $24 per bin. This work is hard on our bodies as we need to go up and down a 16 foot ladder while carrying 60 -80 lbs of oranges. But it's year round work that feeds our families." #WeFeedYou

Starbucks’ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It’s unconscionable. As baristas at corporate stores fight for a fair contract and against Starbucks’ union-busting and greed, they have the solidarity of all 15 million members of America’s unions.

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Hudson Valley's Porpiglia Farms ordered to recognize United Farm Workers’ union contract www.timesunion.com/capitol/arti...

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?