John Morin has come to depend on Wuendy Bernardo, a Guatemalan immigrant, and her growing family. If she is deported, he said ...

Two California dairy workers have been infected with bird flu, state and federal health officials announced late Thursday. The cases mark California’s first human infections amid outbreaks ...

After six 12-hour shifts milking cows, José Molina-Aguilar’s lone day off was hardly relaxing. On April 21, he and seven co-workers were arrested on a Vermont dairy farm in what advocates say was one ...

A woman who is integral to the operation of the farm feared she'd be deported when she reported for a regular check-in with ...

But the law is different for farms, and many immigrant dairy workers — the backbone of one of the state’s most celebrated yet dangerous industries — don’t get this protection.

Workers in the survey said the information about bird flu and PPE varied from dairy to dairy. One worker, identified as Samuel, said his employer would regularly hold “talks” with his workers.

A farm worker in Texas developed a serious eye infection after being infected with bird flu. The CDC urged dairy workers to wear protective equipment when working near cows.

Again, dairy worker housing is exempt from state scrutiny because the work is year-round. Wisconsin’s migrant labor law only applies to agricultural workers whose permanent homes are elsewhere but ...

Dairy is big in New Mexico. Big in number of cows, with approximately 320, 000 statewide; big in average herd size, with about 2, 200 cows per dairy (the largest in the nation); and big in ...

The workers, many from remote, impoverished communities in Latin America, are grateful for the jobs. And yet they feel trapped. They are people like a 33-year-old Nicaraguan who came to Wisconsin ...

In both instances, the dairy workers declined to be tested for H5N1, the study said. That means it’s impossible to know whether they directly transmitted the virus to their cats, said Dr. Keith ...

No state or federal agency appears to track how many of Wisconsin’s 5,700 or so dairy farms fall into that category — or how many workers go without coverage.