Aramark On Board With Coalition Of Immokalee Workers By Growing Produce Staff|April 2, 2010 Responding to an escalating campaign waged by students across the country, Aramark has agreed to work with the […]Read More
Hashing Out H-2A By Growing Produce Staff|March 30, 2010 Recent regulatory changes to the H-2A agricultural worker program became effective March 15. To help employers seeking temporary […]
An Update On AgJOBS By Growing Produce Staff|March 17, 2010 On Friday, March 12, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) announced that her colleague Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) had joined […]
Farmworker Safety First By Robin Koestoyo|March 1, 2010 More than 550 citrus grove and landscape workers attended the seventh annual Ag Worker Training event held Jan. […]
Change In H-2A Rule Doesn’t Favor Growers By Growing Produce Staff|February 18, 2010 Last week, the Department of Labor announced a final rule for the H-2A program. Responding to the rule, […]
Ag Leaders Meet With Vilsack On Immigration Reform By Growing Produce Staff|February 8, 2010 A delegation of state agricultural leaders, farmworker advocates, and employer representatives met last Friday with U.S. secretary of […]
United Fresh Issues Statement On Immigration Reform By Growing Produce Staff|December 16, 2009 United Fresh Produce Association president and CEO Tom Stenzel released the following statement on Tuesday’s introduction of the […]
Responding To Obama Administration’s H-2A Proposals Posted by Paul Rusnak|November 1, 2009 In response to the Obama Administration’s H-2A proposals, a letter from David Fulton of masLabor focuses on the […]
Department Of Homeland Security Formally Rescinds No-Match Rule By Growing Produce Staff|October 8, 2009 Yesterday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rescinded the Social Security “No-Match” regulation that targeted employers with undocumented workers. The […]
No Shortage Of Labor Issues By Rosemary Gordon|September 1, 2009 Last month, a couple of labor-related issues touched the nerves of quite a few people. The first “issue” […]
Department Of Homeland Security To Eliminate No-Match Rule By Growing Produce Staff|August 25, 2009 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last week published its notice of intent to rescind the Social Security […]
Growers To File Complaint Over Border Patrol Agents’ Treatment Of Farmworkers By Growing Produce Staff|August 25, 2009 New York fruit growers are alleging that their workers have been unfairly pulled over and harassed by border […]
Nine Farms, 17 Contractors Fined For Labor Violations By Growing Produce Staff|August 11, 2009 The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has fined nine farms and 17 farm labor contractors […]
Migrant Mexican Farmworkers Vote To Quit Canadian Union By Growing Produce Staff|August 11, 2009 Union restrictions, agreed to two years ago by migrant farmworkers in Canada, led to a vote this week […]
No-Match Scratched By Obama Administration By Growing Produce Staff|July 8, 2009 Today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the department will be proposing a new regulation rescinding […]
New York Farmworker Bill Stalls By Growing Produce Staff|July 6, 2009 The Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act, which would give workers overtime pay, bargaining rights, expanded workers’ compensation, unemployment […]
The Importance Of AgJOBS By Nancy Foster|July 1, 2009 Just before Memorial Day, the Agricultural Jobs, Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act of 2009 – AgJOBS — was […]
Growers Oppose Legislation Boosting Laborer Benefits By Growing Produce Staff|June 16, 2009 If enacted, the Fair Labor Practices Act would provide farmworkers with collective bargaining rights and overtime pay, as […]
New York Farmworker Bill Passes State Assembly By Growing Produce Staff|June 10, 2009 New York’s Farm Worker Fair Labor Practices Act passed the state Assembly Monday and the bill is now […]
Carolina Growers Fear Labor Shortage By Growing Produce Staff|May 18, 2009 The number of Mexican farmworkers that traditionally report to work the fields in North Carolina usually numbers in […]
