In response to the Obama Administration’s H-2A proposals, a letter from David Fulton of masLabor focuses on the importance of labor to the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry, and the importance of the fruit and vegetable industry to the nation’s well being.
In the letter, Fulton emphasizes the need for balanced H-2A provisions, which means first examining institutionalized prejudices. “Every U.S. stakeholder loses if the economics don’t work for the U.S. fruit and vegetable industry and other labor intensive agriculture in the new global economy,” he writes. “The hope would be that Congress will deal with AgJobs or comprehensive immigration reform including AgJob type provisions for a viable agricultural guestworker program.”