This national monument honors one of the most important U.S. labor and human rights leaders of the 20th century. César Chávez co-founded the United Farm Workers of America in 1962, the first ...

The reality of farm work in America is often extreme vulnerability: Farmworkers are excluded from keystone labor laws, including the right to unionize, national minimum wage ... candidates have ...

News reporter for Orlando Weekly, with a focus on state and local government, workers' rights, and housing issues. Previously ...

The ruling Thursday by a three-judge panel follows an appeal by the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, the state agency that oversees agricultural union elections, and the United Farm Workers ...

Trump's election sets the stage for changes that will ripple through agriculture, where policy and regulation are tightly ...

national vice president of the United Farm Workers labor union. "There is a very significant undercount of cases because we don't have a way to monitor who is sick because workers are unwilling to ...

The American Farm Bureau Farm State of ... suicide rates are 2-5x higher than the national average. Experiences such as natural disasters, extreme weather events, financial uncertainty, fluctuating ...

The program’s growth has come with multiplying reports of labor ... the National Labor Relations Act, a seminal 1935 law that enshrines private sector workers’ right to form trade unions ...

The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation recently ... under the H2A program to grant these effective union rights to these agricultural employees when Congress has expressly said in the National ...

Agricultural exports to such markets as the European Union and the United States were valued at nearly $2.5 billion in 2021.