On Friday, April 8, 42-year-old Pedro Joj took a break from milking cows to walk home for Tylenol. He was feeling dizzy and had a headache. Soon after, his nine-year-old step-daughter found him convulsing on the ground at the dairy farm. He died four days later at St. Luke’s Hospital Read more…
MINEOLA, N.Y. — On September 27, 2021, the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) certified Local 338 RWDSU/UFCW as the union to represent twelve agricultural workers employed at Pindar Vineyards in Peconic, New York. This is the first union certification in New York State after the 2019 passage Read more…
Trabadajores Agrícolas Unidos is empowering farmworkers to build organizing committees, develop farmworker leaders, win union recognition at farms and negotiate union contracts that are ratified by farmworkers at their farms. To learn more about TAU’s organizing work, click here.
Building partnerships with farmworker allies to increase workers’ awareness of their rights under FLPA, through direct worker outreach, trainings and messaging throughout the state.
Implementing and enforcing fully the rights guaranteed under FLPA, including the right to organize a union through an effective and orderly process administered by the Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).
Assisting farmworkers with non-collective bargaining issues through advocacy related to housing, health & safety, workers’ compensation, immigration and pandemic relief.
n his 19 years harvesting grapes for Long Island’s largest vineyard, Martir Diaz’s wage has barely budged, and he’s come to appreciate the smallest of workplace victories, like a day of rest or a slight bump in the county’s minimum wage. Despite working upwards of 50 hours per week, Diaz, Read more…
Farmworkers are the backbone of New York’s massive, multibillion-dollar agricultural industry. Yet a racist 80-year-old carve-out in state law means that the 80,000 men and women who do the work of harvesting vegetables, picking fruit, and milking dairy cows are excluded from basic labor protections that nearly all other New Read more…