Sentences with phrase «many agricultural workers»

These include the H - 1B, common in the tech industry, which can be extended up to six years; the H - 2A, for agricultural workers; and the H - 2B, often used for hospitality and tourism workers.

About 70 percent of all agricultural workers are undocumented, according to American Nursery and Landscaping Association.

The association is lobbying for more agricultural worker visas, known as an H2 - A, but part of what it wants to do is offer these workers a mult - year path to citizenship as an incentive for their agreeing to do farmwork.

These concerns stem in part from the «farm rush» of the 1990s and early 2000s, when agricultural workers from China moved to the fertile land in the Far East along the border.

Agricultural workers were also eligible to work legally under the temporary worker — H class visa — created by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952, although this program was primarily used for nonagricultural workers.

Factory farming and the combine harvester increased labour productivity in the farming sector and reduced the need for agricultural workers.

The protest will highlight ongoing human rights abuses faced by the agricultural workers in Mexico who pick tomatoes for the chain.

The guidelines specify some of those issues: agricultural workers, capital punishment, criminal justice, housing, parochial schools, pornography, and sex education.

Indeed, malnutrition becomes a serious problem among these agricultural workers.

Malas, who were considerable in number, were mostly agricultural workers like Holeyas in the western India.

Farm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma County...

Agricultural workers in particular, including migrants and women, are some of the poorest paid and most exploited workers in the world.

Coming from humble beginnings, Roel had started his career as a baker in Mexico and his wife was an agricultural worker when they entered the United States.

So it's not enough that we treat our farmers like dirt, we must create near slave - like conditions for agricultural workers in order to reach those holy grails of «increased productivity» and «greater global competitiveness».

They are representatives of peasant and family farmers, landless, rural women and rural youth, fishers and fish workers, agricultural workers, hunters and gatherers, pastoralists and herders, indigenous peoples and food consumers.

Now, Nobis and other agricultural workers around the state are keeping an anxious eye on President Trump, who campaigned on tearing up trade deals he feels are bad for U.S.e workers, and is reportedly preparing to pull out of a free trade agreement with South Korea as early as this week.

Non-certified organic agriculture occupies virtually all agricultural lands, including Basic Units of Cooperative Production and urban agriculture (e.g. organoponics, intensive gardens), that provide food self - sufficiency to all farms and agricultural workers (see Box 2).

Lets be honest with ourselves; ALL Prem players are obscenely overpaid but we can be expected to stomach this obscenity in life (esp when compared to people who do REAL jobs, nurses, bus drivers, agricultural workers etc, etc) ONLY when those fortunate players bust a gut, every game, for the club who employs them.

Not only are these practices better for the environment and safer for agricultural worker but they also help the farmer keep more of what they earn.

Union members will demonstrate alongside agricultural workers and film buffs who disagree with government plans to disband publicly - funded bodies like the UK Film Council, Forestry Commission and the Agricultural Wages Board.

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers» Scheme (SAWS) operated a yearly quota of 21,000 for seasonal workers from Bulgaria and later Romania until it ended in December 2013.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo last month announced the state would not defend a lawsuit from the New York Civil Liberties Union against a constitutional provision that makes it difficult for agricultural workers to unionize.

The New York Farm Bureau filed court papers to defend a law that exempts agricultural workers from collective - bargaining protections.

Given that the purpose of the Bill was to protect Welsh agricultural workers after the UK Government scrapped that protection, it is disappointing that the Attorney General has referred the Bill to the Supreme Court.

Plaid Cymru hopes that these important safeguards for agricultural workers are found to be within the National Assembly's powers.

GOP state lawmakers are urging Gov. Cuomo to defend a state labor provision that makes it difficult for farm and agricultural workers to collectively bargain.

A coalition of 18 farm organizations on Tuesday urged Gov. Andrew Cuomo to reconsider not defending a state constitutional statute that makes it difficult for agricultural workers to collectively bargain.

A member of the Agricultural Workers Union is worried about the declining investment in the Agric sector.

As opposition to employer sanctions waned and growers» lobbying efforts for extensive temporary worker programs intensified, agricultural worker programs began to outrank employer sanctions component as the most controversial element of reform.

Broader reform, allowing for easier immigration of needed professional and agricultural workers, has broad bipartisan support.

The General Secretary of the General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU), Edward Karaweh has described Nana Akufo - Addo's «one dam one village» policy as a sign of underdevelopment.

At a meeting chaired by Nick Clegg, the Environment Secretary — the Right - winger Owen Paterson — explained how he planned to reduce immigration pressures by abolishing the Agricultural Workers Scheme, which allowed Eastern European workers to come to the UK to do unpopular hard jobs such as picking crops in the fields.

The conditional cash transfer scheme will provide financial support for up to one million vulnerable beneficiaries, and complement the enterprise programme — which will target up to one million market women; four hundred and sixty thousand artisans; and two hundred thousand agricultural workers, nationwide.

That's when an Italian doctor in Brazil reported the case of a 45 - year - old agricultural worker with growths in his mouth.

Agricultural workers constructed extensive terracing to keep up with population growth, but farming reached a point of diminishing returns as all available land was terraced.

While the cause of MGUS and multiple myeloma (plasma cell cancer) remains largely unclear, studies have reported an elevated risk of multiple myeloma among farmers and other agricultural workers and pesticides have been thought to be the basis for these associations, according to study background.

Her team is collaborating with researchers in the Colorado School of Public Health's Center for Global Health to design and test ways to improve the health of sugarcane workers and other agricultural workers in the region.

Agricultural workers, whose hands are often heavily callused or full of sores, as well as masonry workers or bricklayers, who handle heavy rough materials all day long, are two groups that often have the most difficulty in providing a clear fingerprint.

The goals of the collaboration are to evaluate Pantaleon's progress towards achieving its sustainability goals and to help identify and eliminate the health risks of agricultural workers.

«They asked me many questions about agriculture, from which crops were grown to what kinds of clothes agricultural workers were wearing.

For starters, farmers and other agricultural workers appear to have higher rates of certain cancers.

Maria Cherry Rangel Cultural Organizer María Cherry Rangel is the daughter of migrant agricultural workers and musicians who worked the land of many Southern states.

Presently artists represent a larger group in the U.S. work force than the legal profession, medical doctors, or agricultural workers.

In addition, students research examples of contemporary slavery — such as child soldiers in Burma and unpaid agricultural workers in the U.S. — and create brochures to educate the community about slavery's existence today and how it can be eradicated.

Recently, Mike Lee, director of community programs for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, based in San Francisco, discovered that children of agricultural workers in nearby Monterey County had never seen the ocean, located a mile from their homes.

It also aids agricultural workers and business owners from different sectors to enroll for training programs via their mobile devices.

This subsection shall be administered in coordination with other programs serving migrant agricultural workers and seasonal farmworkers, including programs under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education ACT of 1965, section 311 of the Economic Opportunity ACT of 1964, the Migrant * Health ACT, and the Farm Labor Contractor Registration ACT of 1963.

Chicanos make up a large part of the most severely exploited section of the working class — agricultural workers.

For example, some oil field or agricultural workers may have riskier jobs than accountants in a downtown office.

The Tolpuddle Martyrs» Festival celebrates the story of six nineteenth century agricultural workers from my home county of Dorset, who fought to form a trade union, and the struggle of the working class to defend them.