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Supreme Court’s E-Verify Decision Devastating for Employers, Immigrant Workers

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers, immigration, Migrant Workers, Supreme Court / By max cyril

Immigrants rights advocates and employers, including farmers, are lashing out at the Supreme Court’s May 26 decision upholding Arizona’s right to demand employers use the controversial e-Verify system, which is meant to confirm whether someone is in the country legally. The decision also allowed Arizona to continue the so-called “business death penalty,” which entails denying …

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On the Border and in the Fields, Dying from the Heat

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers / By max cyril

On Wednesday July 14, California legislators were debating whether the state’s five-year-old heat safety regulations are strong enough to protect the 650,000 farm workers who harvest the bulk of the nation’s fruit and vegetables in temperatures that regularly climb over 100 degrees. As the legislators ruminated from the safety of their air-conditioned chambers, 54-year-old Rodolfo …

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Labor Secretary Reverses Bush’s Attack on Farmworker Labor Laws

Leave a Comment / Farm Workers / By max cyril

Labor Secretary Hilda Solis will suspend the midnight Bush Administration changes to weaken labor protections in the nation’s agricultural guestworker program. The changes to the H-2A guestworker program took effect January 17, 2009, and have had a dramatic impact on wages and working conditions for agricultural workers under the program. In a notice to be …

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Supreme Court’s E-Verify Decision Devastating for Employers, Immigrant Workers

On the Border and in the Fields, Dying from the Heat

Labor Secretary Reverses Bush’s Attack on Farmworker Labor Laws

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