Migrant farm workers union advises how to handle interactions with immigration officers
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee is circulating the information as part of what it calls a "resistance" to the "current ...
'I did not expect to be a slave': Amnesty International report exposes abuse of migrant workers
A new Amnesty International report criticizes the federal Temporary Foreign Worker Program for “systemic abuses” of predominantly racialized migrant workers from developing countries, which it calls ...
MinnPost2d
Minnesota’s farmers are increasingly dependent on foreign-born workers who may be victims of Trump’s immigrant crackdown
Minnesota’s agriculture industry relies on migrant labor and immigration policies that allow temporary workers.
Texas Standard2d
‘Everyone’s nervous’: U.S. farmers gather in San Antonio ahead of mass deportations
At the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in San Antonio, farmers braced for the impact of President Trump's mass ...
Migrant labor crucial for survival of Colorado's fruit orchards
When Bruce Talbott began farming his family’s orchards in Palisade on the Western Slope, he used a shovel and tarps to ...
MLive - GrandRapids/Muskegon/Kalamazoo on MSN7d
Michigan company accused of exploiting farmworkers – again
A Michigan farm labor contractor is facing another lawsuit alleging abuse of a visa program and mistreatment of migrant ...
How Trump's plan to deport undocumented immigrants threatens the workforce for U.S. farm workforce
About 42% of U.S. farm workers are undocumented, and Trump's plan to deport millions of migrants could uproot the industry's workforce.
Food Manufacture9d
Migrant farmworkers to protest outside Home Office
A group of migrant workers will hold a protest outside the Home Office on 24 January to demand an end to exploitation of ...
‘What I experienced in Canada is inhumane’: Amnesty report exposes abuse, exploitation of migrants under temporary foreign worker program
Amnesty International’s report accuses Canada’s TFW program of violating international standards for “just and favourable conditions of work,” despite importing tens of thousands of migrant workers ...
Seasonal workers to protest outside Home Office over conditions
The protest will be staged by farmhands who came to the UK in 2023 as part of the government's Seasonal Worker scheme ...
Arkansas Times3d
Cost of migrant visa program, more than Trump, concerns Arkansas farmers
The current minimum in Arkansas is $14.83 an hour, more than the state minimum of $11 and the federal minimum of $7.25 an ...