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October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
August 30, 2019 - Every year hundreds of thousands of H-2A migrant agricultural workers travel to the United States from their home communities, most of them in Mexico. The program, which is structurally flawed, has tripled in size in the last...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Individuals who rented a room at a Motel 6 in the state of Washington between 2015 and 2017 may be eligible to participate in a financial settlement to compensate them for discrimination and privacy violations. Employees at seven Motel 6...
October 17, 2022 | 0 comments
Heat stroke is a severe, but completely preventable, disease that can result in death. This disease happens when someone spends too much time in the sun in very strong heat. Each year, about 600 people in the United States die of heat stroke. It...
October 3, 2022 | 0 comments
The J-1 Exchange Visitor Program was created by the Department of State (DOS) in 1961 to enhance diplomacy and foster cultural exchange. It now consists of 14 different programs employing hundreds of thousands of workers in a range of...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Oliver Benzon, a former worker in the J-1 Summer Work Travel Visa program, shares his experiences in order to demonstrate the serious need to regulate the recruitment of J-1 workers to protect against fraud, discrimination, and...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
A new report released today, “ Shining a Light on Summer Work: A First Look at the Employers Using the J-1 Summer Work Travel Visa ,” reveals the realities of the J-1 Summer Work Travel Visa program (SWT) -- that it can be...
October 17, 2022 | 0 comments
Domestic workers, like farmworkers have been overlooked, devalued, and historically excluded from crucial federal labor and civil rights laws since the days of slavery, some of which include minimum wage, overtime, and helath, safety...
October 11, 2022 | 0 comments
A potentially deadly heat wave is sweeping across the United States this week. Dangerously high temperatures are being reported in various states across the country, from New York to Colorado. In these states, temperatures are rising above 100...
October 6, 2022 | 0 comments
Rosa was working on an H-2A visa harvesting lettuce in central California when she fell off a tractor and broke her leg. After she fell, her foreman told her to go “rest it off” in the trailer where she was housed. Rosa...
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