The Macomb Daily on MSN3d
H-2A labor costs are putting Michigan farmers out of business
Farmers are hoping the bipartisan Supporting Farm Operations Act that would freeze the Adverse Effect Wage Rate becomes a law because otherwise many will be out of business. “Michigan farmers who rely ...
Canada6d
Hire a skilled worker to support their permanent residency – Program requirements
Families or individuals seeking to hire a foreign caregiver to provide home care for individuals requiring assistance with medical needs are exempt from paying the Labour Market Impact Assessment ...
The Burlington Free Press on MSN2h
Welch calls on USDA to honor its contracts with farmers and stop withholding reimbursements
Vermont, and his Democratic colleagues in the House are calling on the USDA to stop withholding payments owed to farmers.
Politico4d
Trump administration sues to end some federal workers’ union contracts
The Trump administration is suing the country’s largest federal worker union, seeking to invalidate existing collective employment contracts between government employees and agencies because ...
Two Illinois Senators spearheading federal bill ensuring USDA farm contracts are paid
The bill is known as the Honor Farmer Contracts Act, and would focus on existing contracts with farmers. Duckworth’s office ...
The Nation Newspaper6d
IBEDC: 221, not 3,000 contract workers sacked
The meeting could not continue on the grounds that the agreement reached at the February 26 parley, which included the reinstatement of the sacked workers, was not obeyed.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation2d
SafeWork lays charges against major cotton growing operation over farm worker's death
One of Australia's largest cotton-farming operations is facing prosecution over the death of a farm worker, and is under investigation for the death of a second worker in an unrelated incident.
Angus King and Senate Democrats push for release of frozen federal farm funds
A new bill would require the Trump administration to release grant funds that were promised to farmers, including some in ...
The Star2d
Drunken farm worker arrested for parang threat in Tawau
KOTA KINABALU: A drunken farm worker who allegedly threatened his colleague with a parang at their workers’ quarters in Tawau has been arrested. The incident happened on Saturday (March 30 ...
WRBL6d
UNFI workers approve new union contracts
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — Drivers and warehouse workers at United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) in Georgia, Florida and Illinois have ratified their first Teamsters contracts. The workers will gain ...
Yahoo6d
Farm’s labor violations caused Madera crash that killed 7 workers last year, feds say
More than one year after a car crash killed seven farmworkers in Madera, the U.S. Department of Labor has sued their Fresno County employer, alleging a company supervisor “organized and ...
CBC.ca6d
Union representing striking workers, Region of Waterloo reach tentative agreement
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 1656 and the Region of Waterloo have reached a contract agreement. It comes in the fourth week of a strike by the region's outside workers ...