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Farmworkers and their advocates welcomed news that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will soon propose revisions to the Worker Protection Standard (WPS), which provides minimal workplace protections against pesticide exposures for farmworkers. A coalition of farmworker, public health, and other … Read more Farmworker Organizations Applaud Progress on Updating Weak Worker Protections

Learn how Farmworker Justice helps farmworkers improve their living and working conditions. Highlights include: Immigration Reform Update: Committed Until Reform becomes a Reality Victory for Farmworkers: Remedying Systematic Labor Abuses Confronted by Farmworkers Farmworker Justice Announces New Health Initiative : … Read more Fall/Winter 2013 Newsetter now available: Keep up with the latest farmworker developments

Thirty years after passage of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (“AWPA” or “MSPA”), a new report issued today says the law has proven critically important to preventing wage theft and dangerous working and living conditions for many … Read more New Report Outlines History of AWPA, Farmworkers’ Poor Conditions and Recommendations for Achieving the Law’s Goals

Migrant farmworkers, particularly hand-harvest laborers, are frequently paid less than the minimum wage. Many growers rely on shady farm labor contractors to recruit workers, and then assert that the farm labor contractor – not the grower – is the employer, … Read more The Hill OpEd: Don’t weaken labor law’s ‘hot goods’ provision

The latest edition of the Eye on Farmworker Health newsletter is now available. Farmworker Justice monitors the on-going research involving health topics and farmworkers. In this newsletter, we provide summaries of the academic research articles and a timely policy analysis. … Read more Latest Research on Farmworkers & Health

In this edition of Farmworker Justice's  Health Policy Bulletin, we focus on connecting farmworker women to healthcare. Included are articles about HIV prevention, ensuring access  through the Affordable Care Act, connecting community leaders to health centers, and an introduction to … Read more Connecting Farmworker Women to Healthcare : New Farmworker Justice Health Policy Newsletter Now Available

This Miami Herald op-ed by labor historian Peter Cole argues against depriving agricultural workers of an important tool to enforce the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The U.S. Department of Labor may request a court … Read more Miami Herald OpEd: Don’t weaken fair labor standards

Yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told reporters that he would not consider the bipartisan Senate immigration reform legislation passed in June, saying: “We have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill.” Farmworker Justice urges Boehner … Read more House Speaker Boehner’s Refusal to Move Forward on Immigration Reform is Unacceptable

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took important steps this week to revise protections for farmworkers exposed to pesticides by submitting an updated Worker Protection Standard to the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) for review. Pesticide exposure causes … Read more EPA Proposes New Worker Protections for Pesticide Safety Following Pressure from Farmworker Advocates

Farmworker Justice and the United Farm Workers, with more than 200 other organizations, sent a letter to House members today stating their opposition to the anti-immigrant and anti-worker approach to immigration reform in Representative Bob Goodlatte’s Agricultural Guestworker Act, HR … Read more More than 200 Organizations Sign on to Letter Opposing Rep. Goodlatte’s Immigration Bill