Items Tagged with 'labor unions'

USDA has provided lawmakers with some estimates of what producers need in disaster assistance this year.

The nation's largest railroads reached a tentative agreement with their labor unions Thursday to avert a strike that could have crippled the nation's fragile supply chains heading into harvest.

The California Farm Bureau Federation plans to host a rally outside of the California state Capitol on 11 a.m. Thursday in opposition of Assembly Bill 616, a measure that will change the current process for farmworker union elections.

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate a former labor leader, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, to become labor secretary. That’s a critical position for farmers and farmworkers because of the Labor Department’s regulation of labor standards and authority over the H-2A visa program.

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