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April 29, 2024 In Cases

Bathroom Breaks for Delivery Drivers (Cross v. Amazon)

Amazon is one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world—yet its policies deprive its delivery drivers of basic labor rights, including the right to bathroom breaks. Under Amazon’s brutal work quotas and elaborate surveillance systems, many drivers resort to urinating in bottles...

November 8, 2023 In News

Mindsite News: ‘Retaliation is a reality’: How agribusiness attacks on a Colorado farmworkers rights law erode ranch workers’ mental health

Until recently, many Colorado agricultural workers toiling on remote rural farms and ranches couldn’t count on being able to talk with community healthcare workers or other visitors at their home – if it was on their employer’s land. ...

October 19, 2023 In News

Law360: Colo. Rancher Challenge To Farm Labor Law Moves To Denver

"The provision the Livestock Association challenges is important to preserve because agricultural employers have often blocked and intimidated service providers attempting to meet with agricultural workers, including Colorado Legal Services." Kelsey Eberley, Senior Staff Attorney...

September 27, 2023 In News

Law Week Colorado: Colorado Legal Services Seeks to Intervene in Challenge to Agricultural Workers’ Rights Bill

A Colorado law protecting agricultural workers’ rights and ensuring access to essential service providers is undergoing another legal challenge. ...

September 21, 2023 In News

Investigate Midwest: A new network of attorneys fights the abuses of industrial agriculture. First up, Colorado.

FarmSTAND focuses resources on specific cases that can change precedent on agricultural issues in the courts, working in collaboration with grassroots organizations from local to national levels....

September 14, 2023 In Press Release

Colorado Agricultural Worker Advocates Continue Fight to Uphold State’s Workers’ Rights in Latest Intervention

“Today’s intervention underscores the ongoing importance of protecting farmworkers’ access to vital services, which is clearly protected under the law.”...

May 18, 2023 In Cases

Proposition 12

FarmSTAND (formerly the Food Project at Public Justice) submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in support of California’s Proposition 12, which limits the sale of pork products in California produced using extreme confinement. The Supreme Court of the United States sided with the...

January 31, 2023 In Press Release

Third Circuit Court Affirms Legal Tool for Worker Safety

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an opinion in Doe v. Scalia on the question of workers’ ability to sue the Occupational Safety and Health Administration when the agency failed to protect them from COVID-19. The plaintiff Justice at Work...

January 17, 2023 In Cases

Essential Services for Colorado’s Farmworkers

Everyone should be able to work with dignity and access resources that better their working conditions and lives. However, Colorado farmworkers’ right to access essential services where they work and live is under threat. Agricultural workers tend to be isolated and work long hours. Many live...

November 7, 2022 In Press Release

Colorado Worker Group Intervenes to Oppose Constitutional Challenge to State’s Workers’ Rights Statute

For Immediate Release: November 7, 2022 Media Contact: Lucy Sears | (240) 676-4499 | lsears@publicjustice.net Colorado Worker Group Intervenes to Oppose Constitutional Challenge to State’s Workers’ Rights Statute On Monday, November 7, Colorado Legal Services and an anonymous farmworker filed a motion to intervene in order to defend...

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