A victory for farmworkers unlawfully discriminated against by an employer that preferred vulnerable foreign workers on H-2A visas usaherald.com/washington-a...

AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler: Trump is “rewarding the big corporations and the rich” while many Americans are “actually struggling” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nice article about the National Farmworker Women’s Alliance, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, in the Sierra Club magazine. www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2025-...

Trump’s DHS Coast Guard seeks to avoid alienating swastika-loving haters who support Trump. But Swastikas aren’t merely ‘potentially divisive’ - they are symbols of racist and antisemitic hate, violence, and genocide. www.newsweek.com/us-coast-gua...

Good news! Utah has repealed a collective bargaining ban passed in February that prevented labor unions serving teachers, firefighters, police and other public employees from negotiating on behalf of their workers. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The US House voted 231-195 to restore federal workers' union representation and collective bargaining rights and override Trump's executive order cancelling federal workers' rights. 20 Republicans voted yes but Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) voted with Trump against workers www.politico.com/live-updates...

Trump has slashed the wage rates that agricultural employers must offer and pay to citizens, permanent residents and temporary foreign workers when applying for H-2A temporary foreign worker visas. It's being challenged. www.thecentersquare.com/national/art...

Sen. Mark Kelly is accused of sedition by Trump and is being investigated by Hegseth for saying what Attorney General Pam Bondi has said to the US Supreme Court: military officials must disobey illegal commands. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/u...

Trump slashed the required wage rate - a market-based wage - for agricultural employers -- like the Trump Winery -- that want to hire temporary foreign workers, lowering US farmworkers' wages and making it cheaper to hire guestworkers. www.epi.org/blog/trumps-...

Trump’s Department of Labor has slashed the required wage rate to be offered to U.S. and temporary foreign workers at employers that hire agricultural guest workers. The substandard wage hurts U.S. farmworker families and exploits guest workers. www.wnylabortoday.com/news/2025/11...

ICE agents had no justification whatsoever for detaining a U.S. citizen but they obviously thought she looked like a foreigner because she is Native American. She happens to be a successful actor. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As government under Trump becomes owner of the means of production, a future President and Congress can insist that companies implement fair labor practices, negotiate in good faith with labor unions, and adopt strong environmental protections. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...

Farmworkers Justice is co-counseling lawsuit against the Trump Dept of Labor for slashing the wage rates agricultural employers must offer and pay as a condition of getting permission to hire temporary foreign workers based on claimed labor shortages. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

California which depends on undocumented immigrants for its huge harvest of fruits & vegetables offers them and their children in-state tuition. Cruel Trump sued to stop it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...

House now has enough support for discharge petition to force a vote on a bipartisan bill to restore federal government workers' right to join unions and negotiate with government agencies. Trump executive order would be overridden. golden.house.gov/media/press-...

Rep Adelita Grijalva pointed out to him that Speaker Johnson’s refusal to swear her in after election until today prevented her from opening her office to provide constituent services. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Trump is for policies that help rich people. He opposes many policies helping ordinary people calling them "Democrat programs” like SNAP (food stamps), expanded access to health insurance, minimum wage increases, OSHA, EPA and labor law enforcement. abcnews.go.com/Politics/str...

Republicans are continuing their shutdown against the will of the American people. We want health care and lower costs, not more billionaire handouts!

Trump admits deporting undocumented farmworkers hurts farm owners. But it doesn’t propose a path to legal status. Instead DOL slashed required wage rates to below-market levels for both U.S. and foreign workers at employers that use the H-2A guestworker program. www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...

Trump is lowering wages that agricultural employers have to pay when they claim they can’t find US workers and want to hire foreign workers on H-2A temporary work visas. Guaranteed wage cuts and displacement of citizens and green card holders. www.yakimaherald.com/news/local/b...

Trump officials bashing Bad Bunny Super Bowl selection need to be consistent: ban foreign language operas from the nation’s capital and prohibit Broadway’s Buena Vista Social Club from DC. www.seacoastonline.com/story/opinio...

Trump is slashing the wage rates that agricultural employers offer to US farmworkers when applying to hire H-2A guestworkers. The below-market rates will deter and punish US farmworkers and exploit guest workers. civileats.com/2025/10/06/l...

“Once the backbone of U.S. workplace safety research, NIOSH’s programs are being dismantled, leaving gaps in mining rescue readiness, firefighter safety, and protections against chronic occupational disease.“ www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...

An important survey on farmworkers’ economic, social and health conditions will be eliminated because Trump’s Administration doesn’t want to have fact-based information to guide policy and programs, especially about low wage workers and immigrants americancommunitymedia.org/oped/flying-...

Calls to Boycott Disney Explode After ABC Submits to FCC Threats by Ousting Jimmy Kimmel www.commondreams.org/news/boycott...

Barack Obama referring to Dylan Roof's 2015 racist murder of 9 Black people at a Charleston SC church: “.. my response was NOT: now let me go after my political opponents and use that.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

Per the NYT. A massive level of corruption, beyond anything we’ve ever seen. Trumps get rich, their cronies get special deals, jeopardizing our security.

"When Jonathan Karl of ABC News asked Mr. Trump about Ms. Bondi’s hate speech comments, he went after Mr. Karl. “We’ll probably go after people like you,” Mr. Trump said, “because you treat me so unfairly — it’s hate.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

It’s so obviously in the interests of farmers, farmworkers, local communities and the nation to grant undocumented farmworkers the opportunity for legal immigration status. A vicious anti-immigrant obsession should be overcome. www.iolaregister.com/opinion/colu...

Our food and agriculture system is being attacked: "What our immigration enforcement agencies are doing now, in many instances — treating hard-working, law-abiding immigrant workers as if they are violent criminals — is a mistake." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/o...

There are high rates of worker deaths on dairy farms and they are preventable through worker organizing (which is not federally protected in agriculture), government policy and enforcement, and education. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

A portrait of two thugs smiling www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...

White House sends divisive, raciallly charged, ideologically right wing, offensive letter to the Smithsonian Institution saying it must replace “divisive or ideologically driven language with unifying, historically accurate and constructive descriptions.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

Crimes committed in Washington DC 2011-2025 excluding crimes committed by Trump and his Administration static01.nytimes.com/newsgraphics...

Another Trump attack on the ability of workers to improve working conditions. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/u...

Trump is creating a $200 million ballroom inside the White House. How many moderate price homes could be built instead? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Some Republicans claimed they want “data driven” policy but Trump doesn’t like the data so he’s firing researchers and data collectors at Bureau of Labor Statisrics, EPA, CDC, NIH, National Science Foundation … ignorance is bliss but also deadly and costly. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump signs up the US for the Flat Earth Society and commits Americans to suffering more serious health problems from pollution and climate change. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Trump’s Department of Labor Continues Its Onslaught against Workers. The Trump administration just revealed efforts to cut workers’ wages, make workers less safe, and legalize exploitation. juliesulabor.substack.com?utm_source=n...

Trump’s Administration is eliminating many worker protections on wages, job safety, freedom from retaliation and specific protections for healthcare workers and farmworkers. The worst employers will be the market standard unless you have a union. abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

At Calif farm a U.S. citizen was arrested and detained for 3 days by immigration police, denied access to family and attorney, clothes and never let him shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray. apnews.com/article/us-a...

"If the administration were serious about countering antisemitism, first and foremost they wouldn't be appointing people with antisemitic and other extremist ties to senior roles within the administration," Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs www.npr.org/2025/05/14/n...

If robots and AI will drastically reduce the need for workers, why is Elon Musk telling us that Americans need to have more babies? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The new budget bill not only cruelly slashes Medicaid funding for people, states and hospitals but will require Social Security funding cuts - so instead of preventing its insolvency this Congress is hastening it. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/soc...

“… the contradiction at the heart of our immigration system: we depend on undocumented labor to sustain our economy, yet we criminalize and terrorize the very people who make that possible.” - Except for the businesses that employ them. www.vcstar.com/story/opinio...

Trump is reportedly saying that the Senate budget bill does not cut Medicaid, But the Senate bill would cut Medicaid spending by about 1 trillion dollars over ten years. Is this just another lie? Or does he not know what's going on? He promised not to cut Medicaid. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV): “(The national debt) is literally a nuclear weapon hanging over our heads. We’re going to have to get on a path to fiscal responsibility.” But he's voting to increase the national debt by trillions of dollars over the next decade. www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-n...

Trump is ending temporary protected immigration status for Haitians and will deport Haitians to Haiti, which is a dangerous and unstable country, while encouraging and giving a special pathway for immigration for white South Africans. Cruel and discriminatory. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

Maine Gov Mills vetoed a bill to grant farmworkers the right to engage in concerted activity without retaliation that most other workers got in federal law in 1935 and that California workers got inbatate law in 1975. So when will farmworkers be treated equally? mainebeacon.com/gov-mills-ve...