Thousands of farm workers protested again in northwestern Mexico on Friday to demand better pay for backbreaking labor picking fruits and vegetables that are exported to the United States. The ...
The Economic Hardship Reporting Project and The Guardian report that Vermont's undocumented dairy workers, like José ...
Tom Florek, S.J., is the executive director of the Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network, a national nonprofit made up of 40 ...
Marco is an H-2A visa immigrant farm laborer employed by Fresh Harvest on April 28, 2020 in Salinas, California. Fresh Harvest is the one of the largest employers of people using the H-2A temporary ...
Migrant farm workers have long been among the poorest workers in the United States. The typical migrant is a 29-year-old Mexican-born male whose annual income is less than $7,500. He is likely to be ...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a lawsuit Wednesday against United Pride Dairy, a dairy farm in Phillips, Wisconsin, alleging discrimination against three employees of Mexican ...
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Three people are facing federal charges for allegedly trafficking Mexican agricultural workers into forced labor on farms in Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. The ...
The H-2A program, which provides temporary visas for foreign nationals seeking seasonal agricultural jobs on U.S. farms, started nearly 40 years ago as an emergency initiative to combat a nationwide ...