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Farmworker Justice believes immigration reform must present an opportunity for farmworkers to improve their wages and working conditions, which will in turn attract and retain workers, stabilizing the workforce. For today’s and tomorrow’s farmworkers, an accessible roadmap to immigration status … Read more Farmworker Immigration Update 4/8/2013

A delegation of more than 60 farmworker women leaders and advocates will meet in Washington, D.C. from April 6 through the 10, 2013 to educate members of Congress about farmworker women's unique concerns related to the United States' broken immigration … Read more Farmworker Women Join the Immigration Conversation

As part of National Farmworker Awareness Week, Farmworker Justice recognizes the dangers of pesticides to the health and safety of farmworkers. One of the many problems pesticide use in agriculture poses is pesticide drift. Pesticide drift doesn’t have any real … Read more Where Pesticides Drift: A Look at Toxic Exposures to Children

As part of National Farmworker Awareness Week, Farmworker Justice recognizes the importance of education access for farmworkers. Education access impacts all farmworkers. From children who work in the fields, to farmworker children whose education can be interrupted by the necessary migration … Read more Access to Education: Promotores Bring Innovative Strategies to Reaching Community Members

Prof. Hahamovitch's op-ed in the Miami Herald is a valuable lesson for the Congressional debate on immigration and agricultural guestworker programs. Labor protections exist under these programs for good reason, and should not be reduced, but a path to citizenship … Read more Protecting immigrant farm workers: Miami Herald Op Ed by Prof. Hahamovitch

Yesterday, the House immigration subcommittee held a hearing, “Agricultural Labor: From H-2A to a Workable Agricultural Guestworker Program,” amid the increasing momentum for immigration reform. While the hearing revealed broad areas of agreement in ongoing negotiations between farmworkers and growers, … Read more Momentum for Immigration Reform Grows: House Hearing Explores Current and Future Immigration Solutions for Farmworkers

On Saturday, the Washington Post printed a Letter to the Editor by Bruce Goldstein, President of Farmworker Justice, responding to former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff’s OpEd on immigration reform. Chertoff argued that immigration reform legislation should not allow … Read more Immigration Update: News on the Future Flow of Immigrant Workers

Wednesday's judiciary committee hearing appeared to be a good step forward for comprehensive immigration reform. Unlike last week’s house judiciary panel,which largely pitted high-skilled visa reform against other pieces of immigration reform, yesterday’s hearing clearly focused on comprehensive reform. The … Read more Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Immigration Reform Was Generally Positive Except for Senators’ Push for Guestworker Program for Dairy Workers

Today, Farmworker Justice will rise. We will rise in solidarity with the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (Alliance of Women Farmworkers) and others all over the world to end violence against women. We will rise as a part of One Billion … Read more Farmworker Justice Rises

Today, at long last, the EPA issued a new rule that strengthens scientific and ethical protections for tests of pesticides on humans. This rule was the result of a 2006 lawsuit filed against the EPA by a coalition of public … Read more Overdue Standards Better Protect People from Human Pesticide Tests