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Fresno agricultural workers often face serious workplace hazards including unsafe transportation, pesticide exposure, heat illness, and retaliation for reporting unsafe conditions. Many violations go unreported due to fear and lack of enforcement, but workers still have important protections under California and federal law.

This article explains common safety violations, which agencies enforce worker protections, how enforcement works in Fresno agriculture, and what legal remedies may be available to affected workers.

Dolores Huerta and the late César Chavez are both labor rights icons credited with leading a movement that pushed growers to negotiate for better wages and working conditions for farmworkers. Their legacies are getting new attention after allegations emerged that Chavez, who died in 1993, sexually abused Huerta and other women and girls. Several celebrations honoring Chavez planned around the…

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