Tomás Reyes
Reports from the fields, packing sheds, and labor camps where America's food gets made. Fluent in Spanish; deeply fluent in the power imbalances that keep farmworkers invisible.
Recent reporting
NY Dairy Workers Fight for Overtime Rights Decades Overdue
New York extended labor rights to farmworkers in 2019. Dairy workers still get fewer overtime protections than everyone else, and a new organizing push aims to close the gap.
Trump Cut H-2A Wages. Courts Backed It. Dairy Workers Are Organizing.
The Trump administration cut H-2A agricultural wages by up to $5 an hour. Courts upheld the cuts. New York's dairy workers are now pushing for state-level labor protections.
The Hands That Feed Us Are Working in Deadly Heat — and the Rules Barely Protect Them
H-2A guestworkers pick America's food under brutal heat with weak federal safeguards. As a national heat rule stalls, farmworker advocates say lives are on the line.
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