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The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (AWPA or MSPA) (public law 97-470) (January 14, 1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).
Migrant farm workers were recruited in Texas by America's Tempcorps to work in Case Farm's Ohio-based chicken processing plant. They were given a bus ticket and $20 for three days of food. Upon arriving they found themselves living in conditions called "distressing and deplorable" by the court.
Farmworkers in Fort Valley, Georgia in 2019. Farmworkers in the United States have unique demographics, wages, working conditions, organizing, and environmental aspects. . According to The National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health in Agricultural Safety, approximately 2,112,626 full-time workers were employed in production agriculture in the US in 2019 and approximately 1.4 to 2.1 ...
Per state law, a migrant farmworker is defined as an individual who makes at least 50% of their total income from agricultural employment and lives 50 miles away for at least three months after ...
Both states have seen an increase in migrant farm workers since 2015, the farthest back the Department of Homeland Security keeps public state by state data on H-2A visas.
A recent study shows that from 2006 to 2022, the average age of a U.S.-born crop production worker rose from 39.6 years to 40.6 years — but for migrant crop workers, the jump was from 37.2 years ...
U.S. Department of Labor data shows about 92% of California farmworkers were settled in 2019-2020.
To work with the U.S. State Department and other public and non-public agencies in improving the living and working conditions of migratory workers. To these ends the committee is empowered to enlist the cooperation of Federal officials, Governors’ Committee, local committees, national civic and church groups, and employer and worker ...