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27 May 2024, 7:22 am
For example, it is not uncommon for an agriculture enterprise, (i.e. major farming corporation) to push farms to hire undocumented immigrants to increase their labor force. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 5:10 am
Law’s death, the previous four fatalities were in the United States. [read post]
6 Dec 2023, 5:55 am
The United States, through next year’s Farm Bill, has an opportunity to: Increase funding and investments in federal R&D to increase the competitiveness of US farmers while representing one of the greatest opportunities to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, reduce land use, and keep food prices low around the world. [read post]
14 Aug 2013, 10:30 pm
Investigations have linked restaurant-related illness clusters in Iowa and Nebraska to a packaged salad mix from a Taylor Farms facility in Mexico, and this week the company voluntarily stopped shipping all of its leafy greens to the United States.Aug 14 CDC outbreak updateAug 14 TDSHS update Related articles Three more states report Cyclospora cases; total rises to 283 (workers-compensation.blogspot.com) The 10 Top Workers Compensation Blog… [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 8:57 am
These exemptions can be traced back to New Deal legislation passed in the 1930s, when the growers' lobby and other moneyed interests pressured Southern senators to exempt the then largely African-American worker populations of farm workers and domestic workers from these basic workplace protections. [read post]
1 Mar 2024, 1:10 pm
The union, which represents approximately 60% of Kenyon student workers such as student teachers, resident hall assistants, library workers, and farm and greenhouse workers, has filed a petition for recognition with the NLRB and gone on strike four times since 2020. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 11:30 pm
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29 Aug 2013, 5:30 am
Unite Has Campaigned in Past for Better Farm Safety As the only union in the UK representing farm workers, Unite has campaigned for decades for better child safety on farms. [read post]
2 Oct 2013, 2:18 pm
Res. 780 called for recognizing the contributions of Filipino Americans to the United States. [read post]
4 May 2018, 11:30 am
Currently, there are over 700,000 farmworker women across the United States and over 2 million domestic workers. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 2:59 am
I was appalled when I first read CDC statistics of foodborne and food-related illness and death in the United States. [read post]
20 Dec 2012, 6:00 am
There is one for federal employees, one for harbor workers, one for residents of the District of Columbia, one for employees of the District of Columbia, and one for each territory, possession or commonwealth of the United States. [read post]
19 Feb 2024, 12:03 pm
He would go on to work with Cesar Chavez in the United Farm Workers movement, helping win wage increases for workers. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 11:07 am
It includes the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), International Brotherhood of Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, Laborers International Union, United Farm Workers, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and UNITE HERE. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 12:18 pm
The answer is a definite no: the High Court held that the Upper Tribunal had been entirely correct in finding that a Zimbabwean national, who had beaten farm workers in farm invasions intended to drive farmers and farm workers away from their farms, had committed inhumane acts amounting to crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute art.7(1)(k) and therefore by virtue of the Convention relating to the Status of Refugees 1951… [read post]
12 Mar 2013, 11:06 am
Back in June of 2010, a farming injury left Jason paralyzed from the waist down. [read post]
10 May 2013, 5:13 am
Responding to allegations that Henry’s Turkey (an Iowa-based subsidiary of Hill County Farms) subjected a class of intellectually disabled workers to verbal abuse and deprivation of rights, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) brought suit for discrimination against the turkey processor in 2011 (read the complaint here). [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
"It is my job as your United States Senator to make sure that Congress is supporting our farmers and helping to grow the farming industry. [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 11:41 am
The EO applies to private hiring entities with 500 or more employees in the United States, including “any Delivery Network Company (as defined in Revenue and Taxation Code section 6041.5(b)) and any Transportation Network Company (as defined in Public Utilities Code section 5431(c)). [read post]
31 Mar 2016, 10:42 am
—César Chávez First President of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) Born March 31, 1927, César Estrada Chávez is perhaps the most renowned Latino civil rights activist. [read post]
