KPAX
Washington Farm Bureau wants visa for peak workers
Associated Press - February 9, 2009 9:35 AM ET
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington Farm Bureau wants the state to ask Congress for permission to create a visa for essential workers.
Read the whole article here.
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Showing posts with label farm workers. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
JG - Tales of hope, despair
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Tales of hope, despair
published: Sunday May 25, 2008
Glenda Anderson, Staff Reporter
Hundreds of farm work applicants converged at the St Paul's United Church in Montego Bay in this 2005 photo. Over the years, thousands of Jamaicans have been recruited by US and Canadian companies to work on farms. - File
A sixty-five-year-old Jamaican farm worker - who does not want his identity disclosed - was recruited under the H-2A Agricultural programme by Florida Fruit and Vegetables Association in Orlando Florida, in November 1982 until 1989, and was assigned to the Sugar Cane Growers' Cooperative.
Read the whole article here.
Jamaica Gleaner
Tales of hope, despair
published: Sunday May 25, 2008
Glenda Anderson, Staff Reporter
Hundreds of farm work applicants converged at the St Paul's United Church in Montego Bay in this 2005 photo. Over the years, thousands of Jamaicans have been recruited by US and Canadian companies to work on farms. - File
A sixty-five-year-old Jamaican farm worker - who does not want his identity disclosed - was recruited under the H-2A Agricultural programme by Florida Fruit and Vegetables Association in Orlando Florida, in November 1982 until 1989, and was assigned to the Sugar Cane Growers' Cooperative.
Read the whole article here.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
JG - Displaced farm workers seek compensation
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Gleaner
Displaced farm workers seek compensation
published: Sunday May 25, 2008
Glenda Anderson, Staff Reporter
AS MANY AS 4,000 Jamaican former farm workers, who were shunted off Florida's sugar cane fields following the mechanisation of the farms in the 1990s, are now being told to go home, or face further distress.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"One-time recruiter Jamaica Central Labour Organisation, says the men - now frustrated and angry after many years of waiting and several failed lawsuits - should leave the shores of the United States and head back to Jamaica."
"The matter involves some 2,000 Jamaican men who worked as cane cutters in Florida between 1987 and 1993, and are eligible to join a lawsuit to recover an estimated US$10 million (J$720 million) in unpaid wages from their employer, Osceola Farms."
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"The group's troubles began in the early 1990s, following changes to a major agricultural provision.
The USA's Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) allowed persons to qualify by either being in the country continuously for five years, or having worked under the Special Agricultural Workers programme.
This meant being employed for at least 90 days in fruit, sugar cane or vegetable.
By 1988, the US government allowed the men to apply and then issued them with temporary work-authorisation cards.
This allowed some 10,000 farm workers to work and live in the US, travel back and forth to Jamaica (similar to the privileges of a green-card holder, with the only restriction being that they could not apply for their family members)."
glenda.anderson@gleanerjm.com
Jamaica Gleaner
Displaced farm workers seek compensation
published: Sunday May 25, 2008
Glenda Anderson, Staff Reporter
AS MANY AS 4,000 Jamaican former farm workers, who were shunted off Florida's sugar cane fields following the mechanisation of the farms in the 1990s, are now being told to go home, or face further distress.
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"One-time recruiter Jamaica Central Labour Organisation, says the men - now frustrated and angry after many years of waiting and several failed lawsuits - should leave the shores of the United States and head back to Jamaica."
"The matter involves some 2,000 Jamaican men who worked as cane cutters in Florida between 1987 and 1993, and are eligible to join a lawsuit to recover an estimated US$10 million (J$720 million) in unpaid wages from their employer, Osceola Farms."
&
"The group's troubles began in the early 1990s, following changes to a major agricultural provision.
The USA's Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986) allowed persons to qualify by either being in the country continuously for five years, or having worked under the Special Agricultural Workers programme.
This meant being employed for at least 90 days in fruit, sugar cane or vegetable.
By 1988, the US government allowed the men to apply and then issued them with temporary work-authorisation cards.
This allowed some 10,000 farm workers to work and live in the US, travel back and forth to Jamaica (similar to the privileges of a green-card holder, with the only restriction being that they could not apply for their family members)."
glenda.anderson@gleanerjm.com
Saturday, January 10, 2009
ONH - U.S. Farms Fall Short on Workers, Leading to Recruitment in Mexico
From my archive of press clippings:
OnlineNews Hour
U.S. Farms Fall Short on Workers, Leading to Recruitment in Mexico
Transcript
Originally Aired: June 3, 2008
In response to a shortage of farm workers, the U.S. agricultural industry has headed to Mexico to recruit temporary -- and legal -- migrant workers. Jeffrey Kaye of KCET-Los Angeles reports on the farm industry's recruitment attempts and worker shortfalls.
Read the whole transcript here.
OnlineNews Hour
U.S. Farms Fall Short on Workers, Leading to Recruitment in Mexico
Transcript
Originally Aired: June 3, 2008
In response to a shortage of farm workers, the U.S. agricultural industry has headed to Mexico to recruit temporary -- and legal -- migrant workers. Jeffrey Kaye of KCET-Los Angeles reports on the farm industry's recruitment attempts and worker shortfalls.
Read the whole transcript here.
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