MECHANIZATION: Meet 'The Melonator,' a harvesting machine developed to counter California minimum wage increase, farmworker shortage This 83-year-old in Coachella finally collected his check. PENSIONS: Pensions for farmworkers are extremely rare. Kennedy shared a vision of economic justice “How can we call farmworkers essential to the nation’s food security yet deny them permanent protection from deportation? This bipartisan legislation addresses this cruel irony and would empower farm workers to enforce their rights and transform their lives.50 YEARS LATER: Despite a turbulent 1968, Cesar Chavez and Robert F. “The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would make a substantial difference in the everyday lives of countless farm workers,” according to UFW Foundation Executive Director Diana Tellefson Torres. Now both sides must work together to turn these goals into reality by passing the legislation through the House and the Senate.” Growers would immediately get a legal and stable work force.

“Farm workers with work histories would immediately get legal status and win emancipation from pervasive fear so they can be free women and men. “This bipartisan bill would give farm workers and growers what they say they most need and want,” said UFW President Teresa Romero. The bipartisan effort was crafted during a series of delicate negotiations between lawmakers from both parties, the UFW, UFW Foundation, Farmworker Justice and a large number of national grower associations.

The Farm Workforce Modernization Act would put farm workers and their immediate family members on a roadmap to citizenship and protection from the constant threat of detention and deportation. The bill is coauthored by Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA). 1537), a bill that would create a path to legal status for undocumented agricultural workers and their immediate family members in this country, and reform the H-2A temporary agricultural visa program. UFW Foundation Executive Director Diana Tellefson Torres and United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero heralded re-introduction of the bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2021 (H.R.

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