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Farmworker Justice Media Center

Below are our latest press releases on important news events relating to policy changes and issues affecting farmworkers and their families.

Farmworker Justice Press Statement on the House Immigration Subcommittee’s Hearing on ICE Worksite Enforcement (January 25th, 2011)

FJ/Oxfam Report on Labor Abuses in American Agriculture

• New Report Outlines Solutions to Rampant Labor Abuses in Agriculture   (06/16/10)

AgJOBS

Farmworker Justice Statement on the Re-introduction of AgJOBS(05/14/09)

Changes to H-2A Guestworker Program

• Federal Court Rejects Agribusiness Attack on New Guestworker Rules  (04/09/10)

• Obama Administration Finalizes New Rules for H-2A Guestworker Program (02/11/10)

• FJ Statement on Obama Administration's Proposed Changes to H-2A Program (09/03/09)

• Bush Administration Finalizes Changes to Nation's Guestworker Program (12/2008)

• FJ Statement on Bush Administration's Proposal for H-2A Program (02/13/08)

Background Information

Before leaving office the Bush Administration finalized changes to the nation's agricultural guestworker program that essentially slashed wages and cut worker protections for both U.S. and foreign farmworkers. For a summary of the H-2A guestworker program see: Pre-2009 H-2A Program. To find out more about the changes the Bush Administration made to it see:

Summaries of the Program and the Changes

• 2 page summary of Bush Administration changes to the Program  (02/2009) Longer summary of Bush Administration changes to the Program (5 pages)  (02/09)

• Illegal, Counterproductive and Unfair: A Summary of the Bush Administration's Changes to the H-2A Guestworker Program  (04/16/08)

Reports

• Litany of Abuses: Why the Bush Administration's Changes to the H-2A Guestworker Program will make a bad program even worse  (12/2009)

Other Guestworker News

Big Victory for Migrant Forestry Workers Cheated Out of Wages (02-12-10)

Pesticides

Nearly 50,000 people sign petition asking EPA to protect kids from pesticides  (03-08-10)

Farmworkers and allies ask EPA to protect kids from pesticide drift(10/14/09)