[KR:Notice sent from Barbara Howe at Farmworker Justice, Washington DC, on March 14, 2009]
U.S. Labor Department Proposes 9-month Suspension to Bush’s Midnight Guest Worker Rules
Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) announced today the proposed suspension for nine months of the Bush Administration’s last-minute regulation changes to the nation’s H2A agricultural guest worker program. The changes made it easier for growers to slash the pay of domestic farm workers, reduce housing benefits and hire imported foreign laborers instead of U.S. field workers.