Source: Tom Karst, THE PACKER, 12/1/20


The fight continues over wage rates in the Department of Labor’s H-2A agricultural guest worker program. On Nov. 30, the United Farm Workers and the UFW Foundation, represented by Farmworker Justice and the law firm WilmerHale, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s Nov. 5 decision to keep H-2A wage rates unchanged in 2021 and 2022, according to a news release. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Fresno, Calif, requests a preliminary injunction to stop the regulation...

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