What is Cal/OSHA doing to protect farm workers?

Add your signature to protect farm workers. [Add your name to the petition calling on Cal/OSHA to make sure that the farm workers who must labor through West Coast wildfires are protected.]( Dear MoveOn member, Farm workers in California and neighboring West Coast states of Oregon and Washington are laboring outside in horrific, dangerous conditions and extremely unhealthy air caused by wildfires.1,2 As major wildfires continue to burn on millions of acres of land, skies are orange, smoke is blanketing the area, and ash is raining down.3 California law says that when the air quality index is above 150, employers must provide N-95 masks.4But employers are not providing masks, nor are they providing any other protective equipment. This is a violation of the law, and it is the Cal/OSHA agency's responsibility to make sure farm workers get the necessary protective gear they deserve. [Will you tell Cal/OSHA that the agency must ensure farm workers have the safety protections they urgently need and are entitled to?]( Right now, while West Coast wildfires burn and as coronavirus infections continue to spread, the farm workers who are growing and harvesting the food we depend on are forced to work in incredibly unhealthy and dangerous conditions. Cal/OSHA needs to take action immediately to protect farm workers.  [Sign Jocelyn's petition]( Farm workers are essential to the U.S. food supply, and we have to show them our gratitude and speak up for them. More than a third of our country's vegetables and two-thirds of our fruits and nuts are grown in California.5 Farm workers in Coachella Valley, for example, grow your citrus fruit and grapes.6 Farm workers in Salinas Valley, the "Salad Bowl of the World," grow your lettuce, broccoli, and strawberries.7 Cal/OSHA's inaction is putting farm workers in grave danger, and we won't allow this to continue. [Click here to add your name to this petition calling on Cal/OSHA to take immediate action, and then pass it along to your friends.]( Thanks. –Jocelyn Sherman, United Farm Workers Sources: 1. Tweet by Robert Reich, September 14, 2020 [ 2. "Heat, Smoke, and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America," The New York Times, August 25, 2020 [ 3. "Farm Workers Face Double Threat: Wildfire Smoke And COVID-19," NPR, September 7, 2020 [ 4. "Farm Workers Already Challenged By COVID Labor Through Heat And Wildfire Smoke," KPIX 5, August 24, 2020 [ 5. "California Farmworkers Essential to U.S. Food Supply During Growing Coronavirus Crisis," KPIX 5, March 28, 2020 [ 6. "Harvest of shame: Farmworkers face coronavirus disaster," Politico, September 8, 2020 [ 7. "Heat, Smoke, and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America," The New York Times, August 25, 2020 [ You're receiving this petition because we thought it might interest you. It was created on MoveOn.org, where anyone can start their own online petitions. You can [start your own petition here](. Want to support our work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your support, now more than ever. Will you stand with MoveOn? [Click here to chip in $3, or whatever you can afford.]( Contributions to MoveOn Civic Action are not tax-deductible for income tax purposes. This email was sent to {NAME} on September 14, 2020. To change your email address or update your contact info, [click here](. MoveOn's privacy policy was recently updated. To read our new privacy policy, [click here.]( To remove yourself from this list, [click here](.