Resources

In March 2020, Rep. Yoho (R-FL) introduced the “Labor Certainty for Food Security Act of 2020,” H.R. 6083. It would … Read more Fact Sheet: Rep. Yoho’s Guestworker Bill Would Significantly Reduce H-2A Program Protections and Create an Additional Exploitative Program

This report analyzes the massive wage cuts that would result from proposals being considered in Congress and the Trump administration … Read more Congress and the Administration Must Not Cut Farmworkers’ Wages in the H-2A Guestworker Program (May 2020)

Factsheet explaining the H-2A  temporary foreign agricultural worker program, a flawed scheme that permits agricultural employers who anticipate a labor shortage … Read more Factsheet on the H-2A Temporary Foreign Agricultural Worker Program (Feb. 2020)

Comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor by Farmworker Justice and 41 other organizations on the H-2A temporary visa program.

This report is based on interviews with current and former H-2A workers and documents the human toll of a system … Read more No Way to Treat a Guest: Why the H-2A Agricultural Visa Program Fails U.S. and Foreign Workers

April 2011 written testimony by Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Policy regarding the … Read more Bruce Goldstein Congressional Testimony on H-2A Program

September 2011 written testimony by Farmworker Justice President Bruce Goldstein before the Workforce Protections Subcommittee of the House Education and … Read more Bruce Goldstein Congressional Testimony on Agricultural Labor

Written by Farmworker Justice and Oxfam America, this report chronicles a broken farm labor system that encourages lawlessness and exploitation … Read more Weeding out Abuses: Recommendations for a law-abiding farm labor system