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Big Ag’s Latest Blow to Workers' Rights
The Nation· 1 day agoIn a courthouse in Visalia, a small city in the heart of Republican grower country, a hearing opened last week to undo the law’s first landmark...
Temporary farmworkers get more protections against retaliation and other abuses under new rule
Midland Reporter-Telegram· 5 days agoThe new rule, which takes effect June 28, will target abuses experienced by workers under the H-2A...
Temporary farmworker protections strengthened in final Labor Department rule
HR Dive· 15 hours agoLabor Department rule released Friday, including the ability to advocate for better working conditions. The rule will allow workers to decline employer-sponsored meetings ...
Use IBM tactic on Vero Beach Three Corners? Growth hurts Stuart, Port St. Lucie; Lake O
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoWith your taxpayer dollars, it performs 1,850 worksite inspections, covering 130 million workers at...
Vermont unions and advocacy groups celebrate International Workers' Day
WPTZ Burlington· 12 hours agoJustice held a one-day boycott of Hannaford Supermarkets as they continued to ask the grocery store...
Opinion | Who Could Catch Bird Flu First? These Experts Have an Idea, and a Way to Help.
New York Times· 1 day agoAgricultural workers have always been an underprotected population for zoonotic diseases, including...
Remembering Quincy's Bertha Glavin, who honored all the other Rosie the Riveters of WW II
Patriot Ledger via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoCloser to home, in 2016, Glavin organized a local bell-ringing event for Labor Day, as the national...
Farmworker protection rule finalized
The Times and Democrat· 2 days agoThe Department of Labor Friday announced a final rule to strengthen protections for farmworkers. The rule targets vulnerability and abuses experienced by...
Four reasons to be concerned (but not freak out) about the bird flu
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoIn addition to the basic worries about worker health, the more workers become infected, the greater...
Cinco de Mayo 2024: The civil rights movement that made Cinco de Mayo popular in the US
Gannett via AOL· 16 hours agoThe phrase "Sí se puede" (which roughly translates to "yes, it can be done") was a famous chant heard at these strikes, and became a motto of the United Farm</ ...