A bill targeting farmworker wage theft would raise bond requirements and tighten licensing rules for farm labor contractors, ...

The days of cheap farm labor from Mexico and Central America may be coming to an end. Setting aside the impacts of immigration laws and southern border walls, Steve Bronars, labor economics researcher ...

A Kennewick contractor has been fined a quarter of a million dollars for mistreatment of farmworkers. Kennewick-based farm labor contractor Harvest Plus LLC housed farmworkers in unhealthy living ...

When Francisca Singh began her new job, she was so worried about her low level of productivity that she figured she might not last very long. Instead, she was given more instruction to help her grasp ...

ALBANY — The fate of how many hours a farm laborer can work before qualifying for overtime took a step forward this week during the first of three public hearings on the issue. The three-member Farm ...

With major strikes in entertainment, logistics and more, 2023 has been a year of high visibility for the labor movement. Even in industries that have long combatted workers’ attempts to organize, like ...

Many ag industry and farm worker advocacy groups had high hopes that farm labor reform would make it through Congress last year. Now the future is murky. Congress failed to pass immigration reform in ...