Waiting for Court Decision on Guestworker Program Changes
Written by Bruce Goldstein Sunday, 28 June 2009 20:32
Many farmworker advocates anxiously await a federal judge's decision. Agribusiness groups sued Secretary Solis for her decision to suspend the Bush-Chao "midngiht" changes to the H-2A agricultural guestworker program and reinstate the former regulations (which have higher wages, more labor protections, and greater government oversight of the guestworker program).
The suspension finally takes effect Monday, June 29 -- unless the judge enters a preliminary injunction preventing the Department of Labor from beginning the suspension. The United Farm Workers union and individual farmworkers, represented by Farmworker Justice attorneys and NC Attorney Robert Willis, presented argument against the growers' demand for a preliminary injunction during a hearing on Monday morning, June 22, in federal court in Greensboro, NC. The Department of Labor, the growers' attorneys, and we submitted supplemental briefs on Tuesday morning.
We'll let you know what happens.
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