Farmworker Association of Florida
@floridafarmworkers.bsky.social
Building Power with Farmworkers and Rural low-income communities throughout Florida for over 40 years since 1982
1264 Apopka Blvd, Apopka, Florida 32703
1264 Apopka Blvd, Apopka, Florida 32703
AP published interviews of 4 farmworkers who worked in extreme heat while pregnant. The excessive strain on the body has led to birth defects, premature babies, miscarriages, and even maternal death. Combined w immigration crackdown, mothers need help and protections NOW
apnews.com/article/clim...
apnews.com/article/clim...
As heat gets more extreme, pregnant farmworkers are increasingly at risk
Agricultural workers are among the people most vulnerable to extreme heat. They toil under the hot sun and in humid greenhouses or nurseries, often with few breaks and places to adequately cool.
apnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
AP published interviews of 4 farmworkers who worked in extreme heat while pregnant. The excessive strain on the body has led to birth defects, premature babies, miscarriages, and even maternal death. Combined w immigration crackdown, mothers need help and protections NOW
apnews.com/article/clim...
apnews.com/article/clim...
ICE plans to hire bounty hunters to track down immigrants. ICE plans to give out bundles of files on at least 10,000 people at a time to private contractors, who will use phone location data, social media info, & photos to go outside the law and grab people for $$$
theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...
theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...
ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants
Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.
theintercept.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
ICE plans to hire bounty hunters to track down immigrants. ICE plans to give out bundles of files on at least 10,000 people at a time to private contractors, who will use phone location data, social media info, & photos to go outside the law and grab people for $$$
theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...
theintercept.com/2025/10/31/i...
“If wages drop even more, it won’t be worth it to pick apples.”
The DoL sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H2A workers every year to be above min. wage so that local workers paid min. wage aren't displaced. Today it's $19.94 in CA. Trump will cut it to $13.90. ⬇️
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The DoL sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H2A workers every year to be above min. wage so that local workers paid min. wage aren't displaced. Today it's $19.94 in CA. Trump will cut it to $13.90. ⬇️
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers
At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third.
www.thenation.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“If wages drop even more, it won’t be worth it to pick apples.”
The DoL sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H2A workers every year to be above min. wage so that local workers paid min. wage aren't displaced. Today it's $19.94 in CA. Trump will cut it to $13.90. ⬇️
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
The DoL sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H2A workers every year to be above min. wage so that local workers paid min. wage aren't displaced. Today it's $19.94 in CA. Trump will cut it to $13.90. ⬇️
www.thenation.com/article/econ...
H-2A employers legally must post their jobs in the US before offering them abroad. Foreign workers here legally to work are being detained, now there's nobody to work the fields. If US doesn't want the job & won't let H-2A do it, it won't get done. "The fear is here"
www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
Florida farmers struggle as legal foreign workers worry about immigration crackdown
Even agriculture workers who enter the U.S. legally, doing jobs Americans find undesirable, are fearful of being targeted by federal enforcement.
www.tampabay.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
H-2A employers legally must post their jobs in the US before offering them abroad. Foreign workers here legally to work are being detained, now there's nobody to work the fields. If US doesn't want the job & won't let H-2A do it, it won't get done. "The fear is here"
www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
www.tampabay.com/news/florida...
10/2: Trump proposes to cut wages for all farm workers by up to $7/hour AND charge them rent for gov't provided housing. @ufw.bsky.social says it's “a catastrophe for American workers... When guest worker wages are lowered, it is American jobs that are lost" to cheaper foreign workers, hurts us all.
October 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
10/2: Trump proposes to cut wages for all farm workers by up to $7/hour AND charge them rent for gov't provided housing. @ufw.bsky.social says it's “a catastrophe for American workers... When guest worker wages are lowered, it is American jobs that are lost" to cheaper foreign workers, hurts us all.
As farmworkers work tirelessly to feed our nation, Congress plans to cut funds for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act & give even more funds to ICE. Plus, if Congress doesn't approve all 12 spending bills for 2026 by 12am, there will be a gov shutdown. Sign ->
action.momsrising.org/sign/ice-fun...
action.momsrising.org/sign/ice-fun...
SIGN NOW: Tell Congress to fund communities not family separation and cruelty!
Congress must fund healthcare, education, and disaster relief programs and clawback unrestrained funding that opens the doors to even more human rights abuses through ICE.
action.momsrising.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
As farmworkers work tirelessly to feed our nation, Congress plans to cut funds for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act & give even more funds to ICE. Plus, if Congress doesn't approve all 12 spending bills for 2026 by 12am, there will be a gov shutdown. Sign ->
action.momsrising.org/sign/ice-fun...
action.momsrising.org/sign/ice-fun...
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Not substantially equivalent: New scientific research challenges claims that GMOs are safe.
Via @stacymalkan.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social
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Via @stacymalkan.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social
usrtk.org/gmo/new-scie...
Not substantially equivalent: New scientific research challenges claims that GMOs are safe (Professor Antoniou interview part 2)
A leading molecular geneticist warns that regulators are ignoring the risks of “stacked-trait” GMOs, and herbicides used on GMOs, such as glyphosate, 2,4-D, and dicamba.
usrtk.org
September 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Not substantially equivalent: New scientific research challenges claims that GMOs are safe.
Via @stacymalkan.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social
usrtk.org/gmo/new-scie...
Via @stacymalkan.bsky.social @usrighttoknow.bsky.social
usrtk.org/gmo/new-scie...
In 2021, consumers were more likely to be struck by lightning than win in FA. Why do corporations get to choose where to settle disputes but consumers and workers don’t? The #FAIRAct will #EndForcedArbitration and restore our freedom to choose where we are heard.
www.justice.org/resources/re....
www.justice.org/resources/re....
Forced Arbitration and Big Banks: When Consumers Pay to Be Ripped Off
www.justice.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In 2021, consumers were more likely to be struck by lightning than win in FA. Why do corporations get to choose where to settle disputes but consumers and workers don’t? The #FAIRAct will #EndForcedArbitration and restore our freedom to choose where we are heard.
www.justice.org/resources/re....
www.justice.org/resources/re....
"The environmental cost of production is being transferred to the Global South"
Pesticide spraying is stunting crops, ruining livelihoods, and getting whole communities sick in Paraguay. Laws are not being enforced and children die from exposure. Read to learn more:
lab.org.uk/britain-expo...
Pesticide spraying is stunting crops, ruining livelihoods, and getting whole communities sick in Paraguay. Laws are not being enforced and children die from exposure. Read to learn more:
lab.org.uk/britain-expo...
Britain exports banned pesticide to Paraguay | Latin America Bureau
Paraquat, manufactured by British company Syngenta, is banned in the UK and the EU. But it is widely used on Paraguay's booming soya farms, with often terrible effects on the crops and health of local...
lab.org.uk
September 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"The environmental cost of production is being transferred to the Global South"
Pesticide spraying is stunting crops, ruining livelihoods, and getting whole communities sick in Paraguay. Laws are not being enforced and children die from exposure. Read to learn more:
lab.org.uk/britain-expo...
Pesticide spraying is stunting crops, ruining livelihoods, and getting whole communities sick in Paraguay. Laws are not being enforced and children die from exposure. Read to learn more:
lab.org.uk/britain-expo...
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Purging scientists, waiving pollution laws, slashing health, food and energy benefits, raiding communities, detaining lawful U.S. residents.
U.S. environmental health is under attack.
Full statement: comingcleaninc.org/latest-news/...
U.S. environmental health is under attack.
Full statement: comingcleaninc.org/latest-news/...
August 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Purging scientists, waiving pollution laws, slashing health, food and energy benefits, raiding communities, detaining lawful U.S. residents.
U.S. environmental health is under attack.
Full statement: comingcleaninc.org/latest-news/...
U.S. environmental health is under attack.
Full statement: comingcleaninc.org/latest-news/...
Paraquat: the deadliest pesticide in U.S. ag. Able to kill a human "with just a sip", Nat Health Inst found ppl who used it were >2x as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as those who applied other pesticides. It's Nat'l Parkinson's Day of Action, fight for health! 💪
civileats.com/2023/03/22/p...
civileats.com/2023/03/22/p...
Paraquat, the Deadliest Chemical in US Agriculture, Goes on Trial
Amid lawsuits filed by thousands of farmers linking the herbicide to Parkinson’s disease, the EPA is reconsidering its analysis of paraquat’s risks.
civileats.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Paraquat: the deadliest pesticide in U.S. ag. Able to kill a human "with just a sip", Nat Health Inst found ppl who used it were >2x as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as those who applied other pesticides. It's Nat'l Parkinson's Day of Action, fight for health! 💪
civileats.com/2023/03/22/p...
civileats.com/2023/03/22/p...
Activists and parents in Pajaro Valley start a 30-day hunger strike to pressure Driscoll's and CA Giant Berry Farms to stop spraying pesticides near schools bc the drift has been causing vomiting and cancer in students. Page in EN/SP
"We need to stop killing kids"
santacruzlocal.org/2025/09/02/w...
"We need to stop killing kids"
santacruzlocal.org/2025/09/02/w...
Watsonville activists begin 30-day hunger strike to protest pesticides - Santa Cruz Local
Two Watsonville activists began a 30-day hunger strike against the use of pesticides near schools in the Pajaro Valley.
santacruzlocal.org
September 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Activists and parents in Pajaro Valley start a 30-day hunger strike to pressure Driscoll's and CA Giant Berry Farms to stop spraying pesticides near schools bc the drift has been causing vomiting and cancer in students. Page in EN/SP
"We need to stop killing kids"
santacruzlocal.org/2025/09/02/w...
"We need to stop killing kids"
santacruzlocal.org/2025/09/02/w...
🥵 Know what to do in a heat wave without power? Time spent at home is ESSENTIAL for recovery. Protect urself from the heat!
🥵 ¿Sabes lo que hacer en una ola de calor sin la electricidad?
El tiempo que pasas en el hogar es ESENCIAL para recuperar el cuerpo y refrescarse. ¡Protégese contra el calor! 🔥
🥵 ¿Sabes lo que hacer en una ola de calor sin la electricidad?
El tiempo que pasas en el hogar es ESENCIAL para recuperar el cuerpo y refrescarse. ¡Protégese contra el calor! 🔥
August 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
🥵 Know what to do in a heat wave without power? Time spent at home is ESSENTIAL for recovery. Protect urself from the heat!
🥵 ¿Sabes lo que hacer en una ola de calor sin la electricidad?
El tiempo que pasas en el hogar es ESENCIAL para recuperar el cuerpo y refrescarse. ¡Protégese contra el calor! 🔥
🥵 ¿Sabes lo que hacer en una ola de calor sin la electricidad?
El tiempo que pasas en el hogar es ESENCIAL para recuperar el cuerpo y refrescarse. ¡Protégese contra el calor! 🔥
20 years after Katrina, FEMA reflects on the mistakes made in the response to the hurricane that resulted in the deaths of 1,800 people. They warn in a public letter of dissent against the recent changes that the gov't has not learned from its mistakes, shown by TX flood.
apnews.com/article/fema...
apnews.com/article/fema...
Some FEMA staff call out Trump cuts in public letter of dissent
More than 180 current and former FEMA employees have published a letter warning of potential disaster due to cuts in the agency.
apnews.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
20 years after Katrina, FEMA reflects on the mistakes made in the response to the hurricane that resulted in the deaths of 1,800 people. They warn in a public letter of dissent against the recent changes that the gov't has not learned from its mistakes, shown by TX flood.
apnews.com/article/fema...
apnews.com/article/fema...
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Reminder: no one is illegal and all labor is essential!
Join us in the fight for safety, dignity and protection for the 28 million working people essential to our survival! #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
Join us in the fight for safety, dignity and protection for the 28 million working people essential to our survival! #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
August 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Reminder: no one is illegal and all labor is essential!
Join us in the fight for safety, dignity and protection for the 28 million working people essential to our survival! #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
Join us in the fight for safety, dignity and protection for the 28 million working people essential to our survival! #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers
FWAF supports the impactful work of World Orlando. They have brought int'l delegations to our Apopka office to teach about the realities of farm labor/industry & farmworker labor trafficking. These talks are priceless, unique, and make a difference worldwide.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/26/c...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/26/c...
Commentary: Investing in exchange programs is investing in Orlando’s future
Last year over 500 international business and civic leaders visited the Orlando area through the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, strengthening our security, trade…
www.orlandosentinel.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
FWAF supports the impactful work of World Orlando. They have brought int'l delegations to our Apopka office to teach about the realities of farm labor/industry & farmworker labor trafficking. These talks are priceless, unique, and make a difference worldwide.
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/26/c...
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/08/26/c...
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Late last week, we shared the news that Immokalee-area farmworker Marco Antonio Hernández Guevara had been hospitalized after collapsing from heat stroke in Florida’s fields.
Today, with heavy hearts, we share the news that Mr. Guevara passed away over the weekend.
ciw-online.org/blog/2025/08...
Today, with heavy hearts, we share the news that Mr. Guevara passed away over the weekend.
ciw-online.org/blog/2025/08...
Marco Guevara, farmworker and beloved husband, father of three, has passed away after hospitalization with heatstroke
La Jornada: “Marco Antonio Hernández Guevara should not have died. The farmworker, like so many others, came to the United States to work in the fields of Florida and support his wife and three daught...
ciw-online.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Late last week, we shared the news that Immokalee-area farmworker Marco Antonio Hernández Guevara had been hospitalized after collapsing from heat stroke in Florida’s fields.
Today, with heavy hearts, we share the news that Mr. Guevara passed away over the weekend.
ciw-online.org/blog/2025/08...
Today, with heavy hearts, we share the news that Mr. Guevara passed away over the weekend.
ciw-online.org/blog/2025/08...
¿Quieres aprender sobre ICE en las escuelas? ¡Progétense, estudiantes y padres, y sepan sus derechos! Siempre tienes el derecho a permanecer en silencio 📚
Want to learn about ICE in schools? Protect yourselves, students & parents, & know your rights! (Check out the ENG versions on our Insta/FB) 📚
Want to learn about ICE in schools? Protect yourselves, students & parents, & know your rights! (Check out the ENG versions on our Insta/FB) 📚
August 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
¿Quieres aprender sobre ICE en las escuelas? ¡Progétense, estudiantes y padres, y sepan sus derechos! Siempre tienes el derecho a permanecer en silencio 📚
Want to learn about ICE in schools? Protect yourselves, students & parents, & know your rights! (Check out the ENG versions on our Insta/FB) 📚
Want to learn about ICE in schools? Protect yourselves, students & parents, & know your rights! (Check out the ENG versions on our Insta/FB) 📚
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📦🔥 Warehouse workers shouldn't have to choose between their health and their job security. That's why the Warehouse Worker Resource Center was instrumental in California's fight for indoor #HeatProtections, which took effect in July 2024. Now we need to extend those same protections to all workers!
August 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📦🔥 Warehouse workers shouldn't have to choose between their health and their job security. That's why the Warehouse Worker Resource Center was instrumental in California's fight for indoor #HeatProtections, which took effect in July 2024. Now we need to extend those same protections to all workers!
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A federal judge has halted further expansion and ordered the winding down of the Everglades Detention Center (“Alligator Alcatraz”). If you or a loved one are detained, you can reach out to our detention hotline at (786) 454-8554.
August 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A federal judge has halted further expansion and ordered the winding down of the Everglades Detention Center (“Alligator Alcatraz”). If you or a loved one are detained, you can reach out to our detention hotline at (786) 454-8554.
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Employers and legislators must collaborate with workers and groups like @floridafarmworkers.bsky.social
to create protections like:
🥤 Ample water
☂️ Sufficient shade
🚾 Bathroom access & breaks
🌡️ Clear trigger temperatures
👩🏾🏫 Heat stress trainings for workers
💵 Pay for work lost due to extreme heat
to create protections like:
🥤 Ample water
☂️ Sufficient shade
🚾 Bathroom access & breaks
🌡️ Clear trigger temperatures
👩🏾🏫 Heat stress trainings for workers
💵 Pay for work lost due to extreme heat
August 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Employers and legislators must collaborate with workers and groups like @floridafarmworkers.bsky.social
to create protections like:
🥤 Ample water
☂️ Sufficient shade
🚾 Bathroom access & breaks
🌡️ Clear trigger temperatures
👩🏾🏫 Heat stress trainings for workers
💵 Pay for work lost due to extreme heat
to create protections like:
🥤 Ample water
☂️ Sufficient shade
🚾 Bathroom access & breaks
🌡️ Clear trigger temperatures
👩🏾🏫 Heat stress trainings for workers
💵 Pay for work lost due to extreme heat
More deportations = less food on your table
"Just in the last four months, agricultural employment has fallen by 155,000 workers, the biggest dip in over a decade." One big piece of anti-immigrant rhetoric is that they steal American jobs-- where are the Americans now?
www.npr.org/2025/08/20/n...
"Just in the last four months, agricultural employment has fallen by 155,000 workers, the biggest dip in over a decade." One big piece of anti-immigrant rhetoric is that they steal American jobs-- where are the Americans now?
www.npr.org/2025/08/20/n...
Some Florida farmers reduce crops as deportation fears drive workers away
U.S. farmers are feeling the impact of Trump's immigration crackdown. In some communities, immigration raids have slowed farm operations. NPR reports from Central Florida's strawberry region.
www.npr.org
August 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
More deportations = less food on your table
"Just in the last four months, agricultural employment has fallen by 155,000 workers, the biggest dip in over a decade." One big piece of anti-immigrant rhetoric is that they steal American jobs-- where are the Americans now?
www.npr.org/2025/08/20/n...
"Just in the last four months, agricultural employment has fallen by 155,000 workers, the biggest dip in over a decade." One big piece of anti-immigrant rhetoric is that they steal American jobs-- where are the Americans now?
www.npr.org/2025/08/20/n...
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🔥👨🏾🌾 The problem with #ExtremeHeat isn't just the temperature: workers get paid less if they take breaks; they aren't provided with sufficient drinkable water; their protective gear makes them hotter. That's why @j4mw.bsky.social is demanding action from the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
August 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🔥👨🏾🌾 The problem with #ExtremeHeat isn't just the temperature: workers get paid less if they take breaks; they aren't provided with sufficient drinkable water; their protective gear makes them hotter. That's why @j4mw.bsky.social is demanding action from the Ontario Ministry of Labour.
theconversation.com/understandin...
"A July 2025 CBS/YouGov poll asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of the Trump administration’s program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally?" The respondents were divided, with 49% of Americans approving and 51% disapproving."
"A July 2025 CBS/YouGov poll asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of the Trump administration’s program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally?" The respondents were divided, with 49% of Americans approving and 51% disapproving."
Understanding key terms swirling around Alligator Alcatraz and immigration enforcement in the US
The language around immigration in the US is almost as complicated as the system itself.
theconversation.com
August 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
theconversation.com/understandin...
"A July 2025 CBS/YouGov poll asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of the Trump administration’s program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally?" The respondents were divided, with 49% of Americans approving and 51% disapproving."
"A July 2025 CBS/YouGov poll asked Americans, “Do you approve or disapprove of the Trump administration’s program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally?" The respondents were divided, with 49% of Americans approving and 51% disapproving."
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Please stand up to ICE in your communities if you are able, and support FCWA member groups who are leading the charge: @foodjusticec2c.bsky.social, @migrantjustice.bsky.social, @wjcny.bsky.social, @floridafarmworkers.bsky.social, Workers' Center of CNY, Warehouse Worker Resource Center, and more!
July 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Please stand up to ICE in your communities if you are able, and support FCWA member groups who are leading the charge: @foodjusticec2c.bsky.social, @migrantjustice.bsky.social, @wjcny.bsky.social, @floridafarmworkers.bsky.social, Workers' Center of CNY, Warehouse Worker Resource Center, and more!