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Under FLCRA, farm labor contractors were required to secure certification through the United States Department of Labor. Strengthened by amendment in 1974, the Act became a target of growing criticism and, in 1983, was repealed and replaced with the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers Protection Act (P.L. 97-470).
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1983), codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1801-1872, is the main federal law that protects farm workers in the United States and repealed and replaced the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act (P.L. 88-582).
A Kennewick contractor has been fined a quarter of a million dollars for mistreatment of farmworkers. Kennewick-based farm labor contractor Harvest Plus LLC housed farmworkers in unhealthy living ...
The Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 7 was the first Filipino-led union in the United States. [ 1 ] Founded in 1933 as the Cannery Workers and Farm Laborers Union, Local 18257 of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), it represented Alaska salmon cannery workers and farm workers.
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The most serious violation was failing to provide a disclosure statement to workers.
After World War II, the STFU changed their name to the National Farm Labor Union and were chartered by the American Federation of Labor. From these changes, the organization began operating in California. In this state the NFLU was involved in the DiGiorgio Fruit Corporation strike of 1947. After a year and a half on strike, the union succeeded ...