Ag Sector Focuses on Seasonal Worker Costs as Deportations Loom
The US agricultural industry is banking on the incoming Trump administration to slow rising labor costs from hiring workers ...
65 years ago, 'Harvest of Shame' exposed poverty for the first time with Glades farmworkers
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the groundbreaking CBS documentary by veteran journalist Edward R. Murrow, "Harvest ...
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Farm Groups Want Trump To Spare Their Workers From Deportation
WASHINGTON, DC (Reuters) – U.S. farm industry groups are pressing President-elect Donald Trump to exempt agricultural workers from his promised mass deportation plans, warning of severe ...
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Migrant farmworkers came to Florida for stability. They found danger.
Across the debris-riddled field lay a tragedy — but also a mystery. Who were these men who died from impact, their bodies ...
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Belgium's sex workers get maternity leave and pensions under world-first law
“I had to work while I was nine months pregnant,” says Sophie, a sex worker in Belgium. “I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth.” She juggles her job with being a ...
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Farm worker who previously tested positive is confirmed to have bird flu
A Barron County farm worker has been confirmed to have been infected with avian influenza, the state health department reported Friday. The confirmation was made by the federal Centers for Disease ...
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Company fined £800k after young Scottish worker 'full of hopes' dies at wind farm construction site
An engineering company has been fined more than £800,000 after a young labourer "full of hopes and dreams" died at a wind farm construction ... Mr MacDonald, an agency worker who had started ...
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Starbucks workers plan strikes that could spread to hundreds of US stores by Christmas Eve
Workers at Starbucks stores began a five-day strike Friday to protest lack of progress in contract negotiations with the company. The strikes by baristas and other workers were scheduled to take ...
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Legislation passed to create César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park
Chávez and the farm worker movement in California and Arizona. Representative Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) is leading companion legislation in the House of Representatives. Senator Padilla said of the ...
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Starbucks workers union announces pre-Christmas strikes across the country, including Burbank
BURBANK, Calif. -- Unionized Starbucks workers are walking off the job in the L.A. area, Chicago and Seattle Friday. The Burbank store is one of several where picketers will gather over the five ...
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Senate passes legislation to create the César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National Park
This bill would preserve several nationally significant sites related to César E. Chávez and the farm worker movement in California and Arizona. Representative Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.-25) is leading ...