An Idaho TV station is reporting on the agricultural labor shortage.

Hard on the wrists and the shoulders: A Baltimore Sun article gushes over the H-2A guestworker program, touting its "good, legal wages for Mexican migrants".  Thanks to Daniela Dwyer of the Legal Aid Bureau of Maryland (misnamed "Maryland Legal Aid" in the article) for providing the one snippet of criticism of the program in the piece.

A Renowned Mexican human rights lawyer is criticizing the Mexican police for not doing enough to solve murder of a FLOC labor activist.

New York Lawmaker seeks to expand H-2A visa.

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal: Migrant workers sue farm, grower over benefits --H-2A guestworkers in Mississippi are suing their employer alleging that Alexander Farms violated minimum wage laws and their labor contract with the workers.  Southern Migrant Legal Services and a local attorney are representing the workers.

Some things never change: Modest Bee article on Depression-era "Okies" and today's farm laborers.

yikes, here's an unsavory response to unionization: fire your workers before they vote to unionize.  The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Canada says that's what one Canadian greenhouse grower did recently.  The union filed a complaint with the state Labour Relations Board.  Story in The Globe and Mail.

The Iowa meatpacking plant that was the target of a now infamous sweeping immigration raid continues to fight unionization.  Story in the New York Times.

David Bacon's photo exhibit "Living Under the Trees" is touring California.  Mr. Bacon is a friend and ally of Farmworker Justice.  He has a new book out on globalization and migration and recently spoke here in DC.

The mother of Carlitos, the child born in Immokolee, FL without arms or legs, testified to the North Carolina Pesticide Board recently about her exposure to toxic pesticides by agribusiness giant AgMart. The Board is considering whether the company violated pesticide safety laws.