In Yakima, COVID-era farmworker strikes continue to have impact

In Yakima, COVID-era farmworker strikes continue to have impact

In May 2020, workers at Monson Fruit Company in Selah, near Yakima, told their supervisor Armida Rivera that they were planning to walk off the job.Rivera wasn’t surprised. She had witnessed firsthand the frustrations building among workers. Despite being designated as essential workers under the state’s stay-at-home order early in the COVID-19 pandemic, they lacked sufficient protection from the illness. Masks and hand sanitizer seemed hard to …