Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Exploiting The People Who Feed You - Farm Worker Protections Dropped

"The H-2A program is a temporary agricultural guestworker program that permits employers to apply for permission to hire foreign labor for jobs lasting ten months or less.

Before leaving office, the Bush Administration is leaving one parting "gift" to our nation's farmworkers. In midnight regulation changes to the nation's agricultural guestworker program he will slash wages and reduce worker protections for those who harvest our crops.

The changes, proposed by the Department of Labor (DOL) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) were revealed on the DOL website late Monday evening but have not been officially published in the Federal Register yet."

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