Elizabeth Strater

• worker justice • personal account, personal opinions •she/her/4-cats subaru 🏳️‍🌈• support farm workers •

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

The “bin” they are paid $30 for is around one ton of fruit.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Meet Maritza and Carlos. This husband wife team work in Ducor CA picking bins of citrus for $30 each bin. At the end of their day both are tired and dirty but still thankful to be able to continue to work and support their family. #WeFeedYou

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

@Nucleocapsoid Sure. The worker told me and my colleague, and he showed us the medication

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

One very sick dairy worker was seen at a clinic and given antivirals but was never told if he had tested positive for anything. The number for the county health line workers are supposed to call for monitoring is only in English.

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

There is an active outbreak of avian flu (H5 influenza) in dairy herds in Washington State, particularly the Yakima Valley. A number of dairy workers have been infected, with at least one death. Speaking with workers, we believe the official case numbers are a vast undercount. 1/

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

This is 2.5 years old 🫩

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

-Do NOT drink raw milk
-Dairy farm workers need practical PPE
-Dairy farm workers need PAID sick leave to compensate lost pay
-Widespread testing is needed but not feasible without paid sick leave
-Dairy farm workers should be prioritized if H5N1 vaccine distribution begins

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

@BallouxFrancois (I see you are from the UK. The dairy workers, if this is not obvious, are Spanish speaking.)

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

@BallouxFrancois The number for the county health line workers are supposed to call for monitoring is only in English.

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

@ElroyWintogreen @UFWupdates Do you know the minimum age for an H2A worker? (there is none)

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days.

The chaos is escalating. 1/

[Tom Steyer @TomSteyer]

Farmworkers feed California. Why in the world would you exclude them from basic labor rights?

Of course farmworkers deserve overtime protections.

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

@Jdcocojr61 @UFWupdates “Christ follower” in bio

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

happy anniversary to my all time worst tweet

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

a guy who has only eaten sloppy joes for 8 days and keeps saying “it’s sloptober”

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

When immigrant rights are under attack, everyone’s rights are under attack. If it can happen to your neighbor, it can happen to you.

Cuando se atacan los derechos de los inmigrantes, se atacan los derechos de todos. Si le puede pasar a tu vecino, te puede pasar a ti.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Your car is not your castle — it’s a constitutional gray zone. It doesn’t have the same Fourth Amendment protections as homes.

You can refuse to open the door of your home if officers don’t have a warrant; you can’t refuse to step out of your car.
https://t.co/Qe8ES9O8Uf

[Ximena @Ximena_Bustillo]

ICYMI: An email hit the account of former federal workers asking them to come back to government work, but this time to Homeland Security to join Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

DHS this week launched its recruitment campaign, but it may not be easy.
https://t.co/tKQcfxrZrS

[United Farm Workers @UFWupdates]

Dirty Money? Behind the scenes of an anti-union "protest" featuring Wonderful Nurseries.

[Susanne Rust @susrust]

It's not just the #H5N1 #birdflu cuts across the federal government, but the Trump admin's targeting of immigrants that could trigger a pandemic. They're our front-line livestock workers -- and when the birds start flying south in the fall... https://t.co/0zZmblE8dm

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

@susrust Oh no I owe you a call (sorry)

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

There are 4 district courts in California. Of the 4, one has an injunction (blue, eastern) and one has a temporary restraining order (pink, central). In both cases, ACLU is co-counsel but United Farm Workers is plaintiff.

UFW is out there doing everything possible to protect CA

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

I will point out there is an active injunction against warrantless sweeps in Sacramento. Eastern district UFW v Noem. Since April

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

Seeing questions about the LA federal judge order last week and what impact it has on this Sacramento immigration operation?

The answer is zero. Judge Frimpong’s order applies to the Central District of CA (7 SoCal Counties). Sacramento is in the Eastern District of CA, where there is a different federal judge’s order in effect barring immigration arrests without probable cause.

Agents tell us today’s Home Depot operation was in accordance with that order. They conducted two days of surveillance on the Home Depot, running license plates that came back to previously deported illegal immigrants, giving them a suspicion that aliens would be present there. Then, when they arrived in Border Patrol marked vests, those who immediately fled from them without a word being spoken gave them probable cause.

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

Did everyone forget or what? https://t.co/pfJlZQS4N2

[Elizabeth Strater @straterize]

it does feel good to make stephen miller THIS mad