Texas drops ban on commercial drivers licenses for temporary farm workers

Texas resumes issuing some non-domiciled CDL licenses for legally authorized foreign workers. The post Texas drops ban on ...

Four farm workers killed in car inferno as CCTV footage shows men holding doors closed as motor lit on fire

FOUR farm workers were burned alive in a horrific inferno as shocking CCTV footage shows attackers holding the vehicle’s ...
Agri-Pulse

Farmworker, farm groups at odds over new wage methodology

Farmworker and grower groups are battling over the future of the H-2A program, as the Trump administration seeks to lower wages and provide relief to farmers who have complained for years about rising ...
CounterPunch

Undocumented Farm Workers Pose a Conundrum for Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total ...
CounterPunch

Standing With Farm Workers and Calling Attention to the True Causes of the Immigration Crisis

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...

The United Farm Workers built its political power around Chavez. Now it faces a reckoning

At its peak in the early 1970s, United Farm Workers touted about 70,000 members. In recent years, membership has hovered just ...
Newsweek

Migrant Farm Workers Says It Will Be ‘Chaos’ Without Them

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Migrant farm workers in New York have said the agriculture industry ...