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September 23, 2022 | 0 comments
Each spring, Susana travels from Mexico to the United States to spend eight months packing seafood with an H-2B visa. This March, Susana was preparing for her journey to the United States when she was invited to get a Sputnik V vaccine...
September 17, 2022 | 0 comments
The Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor is responsible for ensuring that working people are paid correctly according to all the hours they work. Working people have the right to receive a...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
We are fully convinced that it is essential that governments ensure compliance with the labor rights of migrant workers in the trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada. It is unfortunate that to this day, the Mexican...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
A farm labor contractor, Francisco Valadez Jr. LLC, has been debarred for two years from hiring workers through the H-2A program because he violated workers’ pay and safety rights. Valadez provided workers for blueberry harvesting...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
Notice regarding lawsuit against Precision 2000, Inc. Click here to learn more.
September 18, 2022 | 0 comments
Maribel and Reyna, two crawfish workers, were fired by their employer for seeking medical treatment after they became infected with COVID-19 at their workplace in Louisiana. With CDM’s support, they filed a whistleblower...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
President Joe Biden signed an executive order on January 21, 2021, which directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue guidance for employers on protecting workers against COVID-19. In the order,...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
At the end of November, California’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration (Cal-OSHA) and the Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board (OSHSB) put into place new safety measures for agricultural workers. Now...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
On December 29, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York stayed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new rules that would roll back important protections for farmworkers, including protections from pesticides....
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
On December 23, 2020, a California state court issued a temporary restraining order mandating that Foster Poultry Farms immediately implement COVID-19 safety measures for their workers. The case, United Farm Workers of America et al. v...
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