President Carter Had To Balance Employers' Demands For Foreign Workers With Pressure To Restrict Immigration And So Does Trump
However, the U.S. is likely to continue to expand employer access to the visas because they provide an alternative to foreign ...
Palo Alto Weekly14h
‘Culture Heals’: Half Moon Bay farm workers use music to cope with mass shooting trauma
Two years after a mass shooting claimed the lives of seven farm workers in Half Moon Bay, the community gathered to honor the legacies of the deceased and advocate for improved living and working ...
Migrant labor crucial for survival of Colorado's fruit orchards
When Bruce Talbott began farming his family’s orchards in Palisade on the Western Slope, he used a shovel and tarps to ...
Bird elected as new president of Ohio Farmers Union
The Ohio Farmers Union has a new president. Succeeding Joe Logan, Bryn Bird, co-owner of Bird's Have Farms in Granville, Ohio, has a history of advocating for family farmers and local agriculture. She ...
Bexar County's largest school district will consider Chávez holiday for its annual school calendar
Labor leader César E. Chávez had his strongest impact on migrant farm workers in California but also did significant work in ...
The Lancet6d
Health advocacy in the history of US immigrants’ rights
Foreign-born practitioners in the health professions are critical to the health-care labour force in many high-income countries. In addition, both immigrant and non-immigrant health professionals have ...
Rob Bonta finds his calling
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: STARS ON THE LEFT — Two California lawmakers have been named to prominent roles with the Congressional ...
KLCC14d
Oregon farmers say new farmworker housing rules could lead to workforce shortages
The changes were made over several meeting sessions with farmers, and farm worker groups and were meant to strengthen health and safety standards in farmworker housing, while also giving employers ...
Portland Press Herald14d
Maine body movement expert teaches farmworkers how to avoid injury
“I put in 40 to 50 hours a week (with MEMIC), then I’m working at my farm until dark,” Parks said. “At the end of the day, time is short, people take short cuts.” Making worker safety a ...
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Migrant crisis: Germany's AfD pledge 'total closure of borders for 100 days' and mass deportations of immigrants as election draws closer
Co-leader Alice Weidel, who was officially confirmed as the AfD's chancellor candidate on Saturday, outlined the party's manifesto at a congress in Riesa - just weeks ahead of the February 23 election ...
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DMW asks Comelec: Exempt job fairs in poll period spending ban
DMW-Taipei Migrant Workers Office (MWO) Director of Migrant Workers Services and Labor Attaché Cesar Chavez Jr. made the plea to the poll body in order to expedite the hiring of thousands of job ...
InfoTel20d
What a fairer BC migrant farm worker program could look like
But we also heard — repeatedly — that the program that brings migrant farm workers to B.C. should not end. Workers told us this program was vital to providing for their families. Businesses ...