Thread: UFW: Seeks to overturn Bush changes to H-2A

Help overturn Bush Administration's devastating H2A regulations
Comment period ends Oct 5

Early this year we told you about the terrible actions taken by the Bush administration to change the regulations on H-2A guest worker program. The Bush administration regulations became effective on January 17 and have made devastating changes for farm workers.

Thousands of vulnerable farm workers in the United States—including both domestic and foreign workers--have suffered lower wages, lost benefits, reduced enforcement of their labor rights and lack of government oversight. The UFW, Farmworker Justice, PCUN and other farm worker organizations have challenged the legality of these regulations.

The H-2A agricultural guest worker program is supposed to ensure that U.S. workers are offered decent wages and working conditions before employers are permitted to hire foreign guest workers based on claimed labor shortages. But the Bush Administration’s changes gave agricultural employers access to cheap foreign labor with little government oversight.

On September 3rd, Department of Labor Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced a proposal to restore labor protections to the H-2A guest worker program.

It is absolutely essential that farm workers’ voices be heard in numbers as growers will fight to keep laws that do not protect farm workers.

Please take action today and submit a comment to the Department of Labor. Then take an extra step and ask your friends, colleagues and family to submit comments as well.

Help us fight for farm workers’ interests and overturn these harmful rules.

BTW the UFW considers illegal aliens inside the U S and any UFW members even in Mexico to be American workers.

Why didn't President Obama correct this immediately? I bet poor him doesn't know anything about it. And we pay him over $400,000 annual. What about nurse visas and on and on....

Cost of those damaging us:
"Pension/Salary/Benefits CONGRESS; Poll/Vote and MORE!"
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Originally Posted by Richard

Help overturn Bush Administration's devastating H2A regulations
Comment period ends Oct 5

This is a related link:

http://www.fwjustice.org/Immigration_Labor/h2anews.htm

September 3, 2009

NEW! Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis Announces Proposal to Restore Labor Protections in H-2A Guestworker Program

The Labor Department today announced new proposed rules for the nation’s agricultural guestworker program which would largely reverse the Bush Administration’s harmful changes which slashed wages and vital worker protections in the program.