The revelation that United Farm Workers would be representing workers at a Kern County company owned by the state’s wealthiest farming family should have been a triumphant moment for the storied union co-founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.

The Immigration and Nationality Act requires that the hiring of a foreign worker will not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of U.S. workers comparably employed. 

For many decades, farmworkers have been vital to the harvesting of food crops in the Salinas Valley and other parts of the Monterey County agricultural region.

The secretary of homeland security tells McClatchy and The Star that his private conversations with Republican and Democratic lawmakers have revealed broad interest in reform to the H-2A and H-2B visa programs.

United Farm Workers and Wonderful Nurseries, owned by farming giant The Wonderful Company, are currently in a fight over the union’s attempt to bring the Wasco company’s 600-plus farmworkers into the fold.

On January 20, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued an Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) on joint employment under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Migrant Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA).

Agricultural workers earn less and work fewer hours under an overtime law approved in 2016, according to a researcher.

The Maine House on Tuesday narrowly passed a bill to require farmworkers to be paid at least the state minimum wage and to give them a right to sue an employer for failing to do so.

The bill would add section 3212.81 to the California Labor Code to establish a workers’ compensation presumption related to heat illness.

The beating heart of Washington’s agriculture industry is in danger, but a central Washington lawmaker has a plan to help shore up the most critical issue farmers are facing — a disappearing workforce dependent on migrant labor.

Every farmer and agriculture stakeholder I meet with brings up the same most important topic: farm labor.

Washington Policy Center’s Ag Director, Pam Lewison says HB 2226 was recently signed by the Governor.

Youngkin vetoed HB 157 which would remove the farm work exemption from the Virginia Minimum Wage Act.

In a step toward addressing the labor shortage plaguing America’s agricultural sector, a bipartisan group of senators has reintroduced the Affordable and Secure Food Act, seeking to overhaul the nation’s temporary agricultural worker program.

Recently released agricultural census data showed the number of farmworkers in Washington has dropped dramatically over the last five years.

As the weather warms and the days stretch longer, thousands of migrant workers arrive in South Carolina every year to work the jobs no one else will.

Six years ago, Illinois farmer John Ackerman didn’t hire any contract workers at all.

It’s difficult for Mark Fellwock to find workers for his dairy farm.

Washington’s agricultural sector faces a dire labor shortage.

The House and Senate were in this week. 

Back when thousands of acres on the North Fork were devoted to potatoes and duck farms lined nearly every creek, farm worker housing was a regional and national disgrace.

After decades as Child and Migrant Services, a small community organization in Palisade has a new name.

Negative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG) announces the publication of a pivotal Forum paper, Migrant Labor and US Agriculture, by professor Dr. Philip Martin.

One of the most important economic developments of the past few years is the prevalence of labor shortages.

It’s rare that a farm family today doesn’t have at least one job in town contributing to the household pot.

Dozens of homes are now available for farm workers in southwest Kansas.

Migrant workers constitute a large segment of the American agricultural workforce.