A bipartisan bill now in Congress would legalize undocumented agricultural workers—but also bring in wage-depressing foreign contract workers with no rights.
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Posted inWorking in America
A Fair Labor Market for Food-Chain Workers
Agricultural interests exploit a vulnerable and often undocumented workforce, and collude to tamp down wages. Reforming these labor markets is essential.
Posted inWorking in America
Since Washington, D.C., Won’t Oversee Its Guest Worker Programs, Washington State Will
Farmworkers also recently won bargaining rights in New York. But California—once the epicenter of farmworker rights—is falling behind.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Stripping the Value from Food Labels
New regulations allow the food industry to hide important information from consumers, and it could get worse.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
In Rural America, Farmers Reap What the President Sows
Trump’s proposed USDA budget cuts send the wrong message to America’s struggling small farms.
Posted inWorking in America
Growers Sue to Roll Back Farm Workers’ Wages
California agribusiness seeks to reduce guest workers’ pay
Posted inEconomic Policy
Work Requirements in Farm Bill Are Off the Table
However, the Agriculture Department may limit access to food stamps on its own.
Posted inWorking in America
The Cross-Border Farmworker Rebellion
Workers in the berry fields of the United States and Mexico have the same transnational employers. Now, farmworker unions in those two nations have begun to work together.
Posted inWorking in America
An Immigrant Woman Takes Charge of the United Farm Workers
Change—and perhaps a new day in the fields—comes to Cesar Chavez’s legendary union.
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What Was the Life of This Guest Worker Worth?
While Washington state agencies reduce farmworker pay and find employers faultless for a death in the fields, Trump and congressional Republicans back proposals to turn farmworking into permanent indentured servitude.