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Farmworker Justice Update: 09/07/18 Congressional Action Post-Recess Congress returned from August recess this week and has a limited number of legislative days left before the mid-term elections. Below are some of the key issues currently being considered: Appropriations: Potential Impacts … Read more Farmworker Justice Update – 09/07/18

This week, we celebrate National Health Center Week. Community health centers serve a vital role in the health and well-being of millions of people across the United States through the provision of affordable, high-quality preventative care.  Today, on agricultural worker … Read more FJ Celebrates National Health Center Week!

Farmworker Justice Update: 08/15/18 H-2A Data Published for Third Quarter of FY 2018 The Department of Labor’s Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) recently released H-2A program data for the third quarter of FY 2018.  The data shows that there … Read more Farmworker Justice Update – 08/15/18

Farmworker Justice Update: 07/27/18 New Goodlatte Bill Introduced but Not Voted on As House Congressional Recess Begins On July 18, Rep. Goodlatte (VA) introduced yet another version of his anti-worker, anti-immigrant and anti-family agricultural guestworker bill. The new bill, the “AG and Legal … Read more Farmworker Justice Update – 07/27/18

The House Appropriations Committee today, in the spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security, inserted a fundamental, substantive policy change to the H-2A temporary foreign agricultural worker program. The amendment would expand the scope of the H-2A program to … Read more Farmworker Justice Condemns House Amendment to the DHS Appropriations Bill Expanding the H-2A Agricultural Guestworker Program to Year-Round Jobs

Farmworker Justice Update: 07/06/18 Sen. Harris and Rep. Grijalva Introduce Overtime Bill for Farmworkers On June 25, the 80th anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Sen. Harris (CA) and Rep. Grijalva (AZ) introduced the “Fairness for Farm Workers … Read more Farmworker Justice Update – 07/06/18

Farmworker Justice Update: 04/26/18 H-2A Program Statistics for Second Quarter of FY 2018 Show Continued Expansion The Office of Foreign Labor Certification recently published statistics on the H-2A program for the second quarter of FY 2018.  Over 80,000 positions were … Read more Farmworker Justice Update – 04/26/18

Below is a copy of a letter to the editor by Farmworker Justice president Bruce Goldstein, published in the Washington Post. A link to the letter can be found here.  The article “Dairy farm meets tech revolution” [Economy & Business, April 6] … Read more Dairy Farm Safety Needs to Improve

Farmworker Justice Update: 04/06/18 California Agricultural Employers Decry Labor Shortage A recent article discussed California agricultural employers’ concerns about labor shortages. Some growers claim that labor shortages caused crops not to be picked (but the article did not note that … Read more Farmworker Justice Update – 04/06/18

It’s true that most of our food grown in the U.S. can be considered to come from “family farms.” But many of those “family farms” are incorporated and are sizeable businesses.   The exclusion of farmworkers from many employment laws … Read more The “Family Farm,” Industrialized Agriculture and Farmworkers’ Labor Rights