Return to Article: DHS and Labor want to revamp program for hiring temporary farm workers
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Bruce, its obvious that you didn't read the article the farmers don't want to pay wages that are higer, the new Agjobs bill only makes the situation worse. They will continue to pay low wages until they are caught or better still make to pay the social costs of the workers. Schools, hospitals etc
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Prison labor sounds like a suitable solution. How many thousands of non-violent prisoners could be turned into farm laborers...many, I'm sure. What about those on Welfare? Let them work in the fields or take away their check.
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The suggestion that the Administration's plans to change the H-2A agricultural guestworker program would create an "extra burden" on employers is wrong. Sixty years of history with this program have demonstrated its risks of harms to U.S. workers and exploitation of vulnerable guestworkers. The new proposal steps far over the line, turning risks into reality by giving employers undue freedom from government oversight and slashing wage rates and benefits for the poorest of the working poor. Moreover, even most growers agree that these one-sided, pro-employer H-2A changes cannot solve the farm labor problem. Congress must act, and it can do so by rejecting this proposal and adopting the bipartisan, labor-management compromsie knowns as AgJOBS.
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