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December 31, 2008
Lack of 50-year-old stubs keeps braceros from back
pay
Mexico agrees to cough up back pay, but many cannot provide proof
WWII guest workers from Mexico apply for back pay
Cal-OSHA to review handling of heat cases
December 28, 2008
Poultry champion blocks change
Powerful senator argued against Easley's safety
provisions, and the plan died. Critics say that's business as usual.
Use of guestworker program continues to rise
Deadline approaches for bracero benefits
In the Trenches and Fighting Slavery
December 27, 2008
Forgotten workers try to recover funds from
Mexican government
A growing reason to take on guest workers
Citrus growers benefit from new federal rules
December 26, 2008
New Beginnings distributes new toys, hot food and
staples during farmworker outreach
Guest worker changes proposed
December 25, 2008
RCMA gets grant from
local business
December 24, 2008
Bush signs farm visa changes
New law expected to protect migrant workers
Ex-braceros battle to claim earnings
Paperwork tangle involved
December 23, 2008
'An agent of change' at the Washington State
Migrant Council
December 22, 2008
New migrant housing: Malaga-area Sage Bluff is
ready for grower sign-ups
December 20, 2008
Brothers receive 12-year prison terms in
Immokalee human slavery case
Valley farmworkers have likely ally in Obama's
pick for labor secretary
December 19, 2008
Judge removes owner of Calif desert migrant park
December 18, 2008
Farmworkers’ migration patterns shift as U.S.
economy continues to sour.
December 16, 2008
EDITORIAL
Bush rewrites the rules
Last-minute changes being pushed through by the
administration, such as altering H-2A visa rules, are creating disasters
that Barack Obama will have to reverse beginning Jan. 20.
December 15, 2008
EDITORIAL
A Cheap Shot at Workers
Employers look to Obama to deliver on immigration
promise
Changing Faces in America's Dairyland
No Pangborn cherry camp next year
December 14, 2008
The pickers' city
December 13, 2008
Settlement claims are long and complicated
December 12, 2008
U.S. farm labor rules revamped
Changes that will streamline the agriculture
guest worker program aren't expected to have much effect in California.
Bush Unveils New Rules for Guest Worker Hiring
December 11, 2008
Group to honor late friend with scholarship
December 10, 2008
New rules make getting foreign farm workers
easier
Middlebury Meeting on Migrant Workers
FBI probes treatment of Mexican workers in La.
Administration changes to farm worker hiring
afoot
December 8, 2008
Chambersburg woman has worked many years to assist
migrant farm workers
December 7, 2008
Ag vanpool speeds along into 2nd year
Fresno County teacher of year comes from
farmworkers
December 4, 2008
Farm Labor Jobs Surge
Yerington onion farm agrees to $56,000 EPA fine
Local congregation plans annual Christmas gifts
for farmworkers
Chile industry big in county
Exodus of Migrants?
Tulare grape grower fined in sex-bias case
December 3, 2008
Labor Pains: St. Louis landscapers worry they'll
be short Mexican workers to mow lawns and bag leaves
Subway to pay more for tomatoes Reaches agreement
with workers coalition
Subway to pay more for tomatoes
Subway agrees to pay another penny per pound for
Southwest Florida tomatoes
December 1, 2008
Pickets say some sick workers not getting full
assistance
Farmworkers union steps up RJR push
Decades later, Mexican guest workers in the
Inland area struggle for proof
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