Farmworker Resources

 The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (ALRA or the Act) is modeled after the National Labor Relations Act, which extends collective bargaining and labor rights to workers. 

 The Farmworker Resource Program within the County’s Human Services Agency focuses on building trust and relationships with farmworkers.  

Helping our community establish pathways out of poverty through advocacy, partnerships, and services that promote dignity and self-sufficiency.

El Concilio is the Service Center for the rural low-income limited or non-English speaking community. We transition low-income families by providing services that integrate them into the community to assist them in becoming self-sufficient, engaged and greater contributors to our community.

 Friends of Fieldworkers, Inc., got its start on October 7, 2013, responding to an Oxnard fire three days earlier that destroyed the homes of dozens of families and left them to fend for themselves. From its founding until its incorporation in 2015, Friends of Fieldworkers operated as a subsidiary of The Abundant Table, and received contributions of cash and in-kind goods that were distributed to families and relatives of the fire victims. 

Since 2004, House Farm Workers! and its partners have been doing just that. Thanks to these efforts, more than 1,000 homes have been completed or planned in Ventura County, giving new opportunities and new hope to hundreds of families.

Much more remains to be done. House Farm Workers! invites everyone who cares about farming and farm workers to join it in its mission to “support affordable, safe, and stable housing for all farm workers and their families through advocacy and education.”

 Begun in the early 1960s by Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and other organizers, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation’s first enduring and largest farm workers’ union. The union continues proactively championing legislative and regulatory reforms for farm workers covering issues such as overtime, heat safety, other worker protections, and pesticides.