Secretary Solis About to Reverse Bush-Chao Guestworker Regulations
Written by Bruce Goldstein Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:07
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has finished its review of the planned changes in the Department of Labor's regulations regarding the H-2A temporary foreign agricultural worker program. In midnight regulations that took effect on January 17, 2009, the Bush-Chao Administration changed the longstanding H-2A program policies by slashing wage rates, removing protections for workers, minimizing recruitment of U.S. workers, and reducing government oversight of a program heavily laden with abuses. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis published a proposed change to the regulations in September and gave the public opportunity to comment. The OMB's review has been completed. We expect the regulations will be formally published imminently. It can't come too soon for the farmworkers who lost $1 to $2 per hour during 2009.
Farmworker Justice worked with the the AFL-CIO, Change to Win, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, and United Farm Workers to submit comments on the proposed changes. More information about these regulations and the extensive litigation around them is available on our main website.
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