Caravan to Olympia for Excluded Farmworkers - May Day 2020
/This May Day, Community to Community and Familas Unidas honored the essential labor of farmworkers who work to produce the food we all eat, as we do on all days. Alongside El Comité, members of the union and C2C led a caravan to the state capitol in Olympia and confronted the government with the cost of ignoring farmworkers’ needs and rights. In the time of a pandemic, the already abysmal conditions under which farmworkers are made to labor have only grown more inadequate. Farmworkers’ housing, food, pay, and PPE are all far from meeting the basic standards befitting any worker, much less those who have been designated as “essential” by the government themselves. C2C and FUJ's mística lay the symbolic burden that the government and consumers in mass must be willing to confront if they continue pushing farmworkers to labor without dignity, care, and protection.
