Source: Chuck Abbott, SUCCESSFUL FARMING, 10/15/20



Agricultural guestworkers will see sharply lower wages because of the USDA’s decision to cancel a semiannual survey that is used to calculate their pay, said a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal district court in Fresno, California. The lawsuit, filed by the United Farm Workers union and the UFW Foundation, asks the court to order the USDA to carry out the October survey and publish the results, as usual, in November so that the Labor Department can use them in setting minimum wages for the country’s 250,000 or more H-2A guestworkers.

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