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Flight Attendant Union Demands Administration Pay TSA Amid Dire Concerns Over Aviation Security
WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA issued the following statement on March 20, 2026:
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Flight Attendant Union Demands Administration Pay TSA Amid Dire Concerns Over Aviation Security
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson released the following statement as the DHS shutdown surpasses one month and TSA Officers face missing their second full paycheck next week:
"My friends died on 9/11. TSA was formed to provide federal, coordinated security that works with all of our intelligence agencies rather than farming out our security to the
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WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA issued the following statement on March 20, 2026:
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Flight Attendant Union Demands Administration Pay TSA Amid Dire Concerns Over Aviation Security
The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Sara Nelson released the following statement as the DHS shutdown surpasses one month and TSA Officers face missing their second full paycheck next week:
"My friends died on 9/11. TSA was formed to provide federal, coordinated security that works with all of our intelligence agencies rather than farming out our security to thelowest bidder. We see through this. They are using workers as pawns in a dangerous political game. It's about making conditions so bad at our airports that everyone forgets the painful lessons we've learned and falls into the trap of privatization. Lives lost appear to mean nothing to the greed mongers.
"Americans must demand this administration pay TSA right now, and hold Congress accountable for forcing the administration to do this immediately if this White House continues to put all of us at risk and deny Americans the freedom of flight.
"The truth is this Administration can pay TSA Officers right now. They're paying the Coast Guard. They're paying Customs and Border Patrol. They can pay TSA workers too. During the 2025 shutdown, the White House paid our soldiers by moving money between accounts - and they can do the same thing today for TSA.
"Refusing to do so is putting our safety and security at extreme risk. This administration has taken us to war which creates an increased desire to harm Americans around the world. And now they are leaving massive holes in homeland security as they dismantle TSA by refusing to pay the workers who keep us safe and secure. The first rule in safety is to remove all distractions. What could be more distracting than not getting a paycheck especially as workers are living paycheck to paycheck?
"Again, DHS can pay TSA Officers today. Right. Now. Last year, Congress passed a massive spending bill that gave DHS $190 billion, including $10 billion for the DHS Secretary "to safeguard the borders of the United States." DHS has the money to pay TSA officers. They are simply choosing not to.
"This is about American lives, but it's also about our economic security. It's all on the brink of collapse. Flight Attendants cannot do our jobs if TSA cannot do theirs. Pay TSA Now!"
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The Association of Flight Attendants-CWA is the Flight Attendant union. AFA has been the leader in advancing the Flight Attendant profession for over 80 years. Serving as the voice for Flight Attendants in the workplace, in the aviation industry, in the media and on Capitol Hill, AFA has transformed the Flight Attendant profession by raising wages, benefits, working conditions, and public awareness about the role of aviation's first responders. Over 55,000 Flight Attendants come together to form AFA, part of the 500,000-member strong Communications Workers of America (CWA), AFL-CIO. Visit us at afacwa.org.
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Original text here: https://afacwa.org/tsa_shutdown/
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President Loeb Joins Federal Lawmakers at Hearing to Level Playing Field for American Film Production
NEW YORK, March 20 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees posted the following news release:
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President Loeb Joins Federal Lawmakers at Hearing to Level Playing Field for American Film Production
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BURBANK, CA - During a spotlight hearing convened by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Congresswoman Laura Friedman (D-Calif.) at Burbank City Hall Friday, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) International President Matthew D. Loeb emphasized the growing need for a federal film/tv production incentive to level the playing
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NEW YORK, March 20 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees posted the following news release:
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President Loeb Joins Federal Lawmakers at Hearing to Level Playing Field for American Film Production
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BURBANK, CA - During a spotlight hearing convened by Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Congresswoman Laura Friedman (D-Calif.) at Burbank City Hall Friday, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) International President Matthew D. Loeb emphasized the growing need for a federal film/tv production incentive to level the playingfield and protect American creative jobs.
"The American film and television industry faces an urgent threat from international competition. Foreign governments have successfully lured film and television productions, and the multitude of jobs they create, away from the United States with aggressive tax incentives and subsidies. Films intended for initial release in the U.S. are increasingly being shot overseas -and American workers are paying the price," Loeb added. "In just a few years, IATSE members have lost tens of thousands of jobs across the United States. That's thousands of families, small businesses, and communities across the country feeling the economic hardship of a shrinking industry."
Additionally, the hearing examined recent media mergers including Paramount Skydance's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, with President Loeb expressing skepticism of the deal's impact on workers. "When major companies merge, workers often pay the price first. Without action to strengthen domestic production, we risk losing more jobs overseas. Federal policymakers must act to level the playing field and ensure the United States remains competitive in the global production market."
Sen. Schiff and Rep. Friedman both expressed support for a federal incentive and pledged to work with lawmakers in Washington to pass one.
The spotlight hearing also featured testimony from the following witnesses:
* Noah Wyle, Golden Globe and Emmy-winning actor; star, executive producer, writer, and director of The Pitt
* Jim Acosta, journalist, author, and host of The Jim Acosta Show ; former CNN anchor and Chief White House Correspondent
* Jax Deluca, Executive Director, Future Film Coalition; Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy
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Original text here: https://iatse.net/president-loeb-joins-federal-lawmakers-at-hearing-to-level-playing-field-for-american-film-production/
Union Wave Expands to Family and Children's Service of Ithaca
WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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Union Wave Expands to Family and Children's Service of Ithaca
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Yesterday, clinicians and support staff at Family and Children's Service of Ithaca announced that they have formed a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). A supermajority of eligible staff has signed union authorization cards, indicating their desire to form a union with CWA.
The workers are seeking voluntary recognition from management, a streamlined pathway to union
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WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO Communications Workers of America posted the following news release:
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Union Wave Expands to Family and Children's Service of Ithaca
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ITHACA, N.Y. - Yesterday, clinicians and support staff at Family and Children's Service of Ithaca announced that they have formed a union with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). A supermajority of eligible staff has signed union authorization cards, indicating their desire to form a union with CWA.
The workers are seeking voluntary recognition from management, a streamlined pathway to unionrecognition endorsed by the federal labor board that allows workers to sign union authorization cards to demonstrate their decision to form a union. The workers join a growing movement of healthcare workers in Tompkins County who have organized unions this year at Cayuga Medical Center and local clinics.
"Workers across healthcare industries are facing increasing pressure to meet the demands of insurance companies at the expense of client care. Our choice to unionize reflects our belief that a new model for providing community-based mental health care is possible, without sacrificing the dignity and well-being of workers," said Calyx Steiner, a clinician with Family and Children's Service of Ithaca. "We feel that sustainable working conditions will allow people to build long-term careers meeting the needs of our community."
"We need to be able to protect our own wellbeing so that we can continue to do our critical work to care for the mental health of community members here in Tompkins County," said Kate Cardona, a clinician with Family and Children's Service of Ithaca. "For us to offer our clients a sense of hope, agency, self-efficacy, and the possibility of change, we must also experience these ourselves in our workplace."
Represented workers include clinicians, nurses, intake clinicians, behavioral health care coordinators, facilities workers, outreach workers, and clinic administrative coordinators. The workers provide mental health care and social services to the Ithaca community.
About CWA : The Communications Workers of America represents working people in telecommunications, customer service, media, airlines, health care, public service and education, manufacturing, tech, and other fields.
cwa-union.org @cwaunion
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Original text here: https://cwa-union.org/news/releases/union-wave-expands-family-and-childrens-service-ithaca
National Nurses United identifies Alameda Hospital at risk of service cuts, closure due to federal cuts in Medicaid and Medicare
SILVER SPRING, Maryland, March 19 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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National Nurses United identifies Alameda Hospital at risk of service cuts, closure due to federal cuts in Medicaid and Medicare
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RNs condemn health care cuts that fund ICE/CBP terror campaign
The nation's largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United, is sounding a "RED ALERT" warning to hundreds of communities nationwide that face a drastic reduction in quantity and quality of health care services as a result of H.R. 1, the Republican bill passed last year.
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland, March 19 [Category: Union] -- National Nurses United issued the following news release:
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National Nurses United identifies Alameda Hospital at risk of service cuts, closure due to federal cuts in Medicaid and Medicare
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RNs condemn health care cuts that fund ICE/CBP terror campaign
The nation's largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United, is sounding a "RED ALERT" warning to hundreds of communities nationwide that face a drastic reduction in quantity and quality of health care services as a result of H.R. 1, the Republican bill passed last year.Nurses condemn these cuts to health care funding and denounce the funnelling of this money into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), which have unleashed a deadly, illegal, and cruel terror campaign across the country.
On Saturday, March 21, nurses will make a stop on the "RED ALERT" tour at Alameda Hospital in Alameda, Calif. The Alameda stop is the first Bay Area stop on the nationwide tour. This event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. See below for a complete schedule of activities.
Alameda Hospital is financially vulnerable to the looming Medicare and Medicaid cuts.
* Medicare and Medicaid are responsible for 84 percent of Alameda Hospital's net patient revenue.
* Alameda Hospital has operated at a deficit for six of the last eight years, suffering a loss of more than $110 million from 2018 through 2025.
* Alameda Hospital is part of the Alameda Health System (AHS). AHS released an analysis projecting that, due to Medicaid cuts, it could lose up to $100 million in 2027 and $150 million in 2028.
"We must fight back against these health care cuts that put our patients' well-being in real danger," said Mawata Kamara, a registered nurse at AHS's San Leandro Hospital. "It is sickening to think money that should be spent on caring for our community is being used to target people instead. That's not what I want my tax money to go towards. All that money going to ICE needs to be channeled back into our community and our hospitals. We have to educate each other and come together in solidarity to create a society where everyone can get the health care they need."
More information on the financial vulnerability of Alameda Hospital in Alameda and potential impacts on patient care are available here.
Nurses condemn the pending cuts to Medicaid and Medicare that undermine patients' health and well-being and are used instead to pay for armed and masked marauding ICE and CBP agents that terrorize communities across the nation. Nurses mourn the loss of those who have been killed by immigration officers, those who have died in ICE/CBP custody, and condemn the wanton actions of federal agents who have injured so many. In light of these deaths and other atrocities, NNU is calling for the abolition of ICE.
Nurses know things do not have to be this way, and they are offering a new path forward.
In Alameda, nurses will join with community leaders to put forward a vision for a healthy society and encourage community members to join this grassroots movement. The Red Alert stop is designed to be both educational and fun and includes no-cost wellness checks, music, family entertainment and free tacos.
What: Nurses' 'RED ALERT' bus tour stop
When: Saturday, March 21, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
\- 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.: Free Wellness Checks
\- 11:50 a.m.: Performance with singer/actor Brendan Hines
\- 12 p.m. : Speaker program
\- 1 p.m.: Performance with Zo1 & B. Deveaux of the Kingmakers of Oakland
\- 1:20 p.m.: Drag story hour with Black Benatar
Where: Alameda Hospital, 2070 Clinton Ave., Alameda, Calif.
Speakers include: NNU President Cathy Kennedy, RN; NNU President Mary Turner, RN; Mawata Kamara, RN; Keith Brown, Alameda Labor Council; Lara Kiswani, executive director, Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC); Benyamin Chao, California Immigrant Policy Center; Vinnie Bacon, chair of Alameda County Progressive Democrats
"RED ALERT" tour offers the union nurse vision for how to make America healthy:
H.R. 1, which Republicans and President Trump pushed, cut more than $1 trillion in federal funding to health care to give billionaires tax breaks and militarize immigration enforcement. In response to this unprecedented attack on public health, registered nurses will be taking their alternative vision for a healthy society directly to the patients and working-class communities they serve.
"The billionaire class and their Republican puppets are gutting public health protections to make themselves richer and militarize our neighborhoods, with zero regard for working people and families struggling to survive," said NNU President Mary Turner, RN. "Nurses refuse their deadly agenda. We're taking the wheel and bringing our vision for a healthy society directly to patients and communities who will bear the brunt of Republican policies. We invite everyone who has felt abandoned by the political system to join us and build real working-class solidarity."
The "RED ALERT" tour aims to build the power and community support needed to save more than 600 vulnerable nonprofit hospitals from slashed services or closure. Not just Medicaid patients will suffer; without community hospitals, all patients have no way to heal from the illnesses and injuries they experience due to the conditions of their everyday lives.
Cuts to services and staffing are also detrimental. Patients experience longer ER wait times, increased travel time for care, worse health outcomes (including death), and a loss of jobs at the hospital, which is often the biggest community employer.
Nurses are calling for the restoration of our health care system by passing the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act, which reverses the $1 trillion cut to Medicaid and other health programs that were gutted by H.R. 1.
Nurses know it will take a mass mobilization to create the changes needed to build a society that takes care of everyone's needs. We see the Red Alert Tour as an important step in building the grassroots movement to make this vision for a healthy society a reality.
National Nurses United is the largest and fastest-growing union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States with more than 225,000 members nationwide. NNU affiliates include California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, DC Nurses Association, Michigan Nurses Association, Minnesota Nurses Association, and New York State Nurses Association.
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Original text here: https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nnu-identifies-alameda-hospital-at-risk-of-service-cuts-closure-due-to-federal-cuts
NABTU Issues Statement on Resolution Copper Mine Land Exchange
WASHINGTON, March 19 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following statement on March 17, 2026, by President Sean McGarvey on the Resolution Copper Mine land exchange:
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NABTU STATEMENT ON RESOLUTION COPPER MINE LAND EXCHANGE
Today, North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey released the following statement:
"We have waited a long time to see the Resolution Copper Mine project move forward, and today marks a major milestone. The completion of the land exchange is a significant step toward making Resolution Copper a reality, one that
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WASHINGTON, March 19 -- The AFL-CIO North America's Building Trades Unions issued the following statement on March 17, 2026, by President Sean McGarvey on the Resolution Copper Mine land exchange:
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NABTU STATEMENT ON RESOLUTION COPPER MINE LAND EXCHANGE
Today, North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) President Sean McGarvey released the following statement:
"We have waited a long time to see the Resolution Copper Mine project move forward, and today marks a major milestone. The completion of the land exchange is a significant step toward making Resolution Copper a reality, one thatwill deliver good-paying jobs for the local community and provide our country with the minerals it needs to meet rapidly rising demand.
"This project will be built under a project labor agreement, ensuring that the most highly skilled workers in America are the ones driving it forward. It's a model for how collaboration between developers and labor can create a middle-class sustaining workforce, support communities, and help our nation compete. When we work together, we can tackle big challenges, build responsibly, and deliver long term economic benefits for the region and the country."
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About NABTU: North America's Building Trades Unions is an alliance of 14 national and international unions in the building and construction industry collectively representing over 3 million skilled craft professionals in the United States and Canada. Each year, our unions and signatory contractor partners invest over $2.5 billion in private-sector money to fund and operate over 1,900 apprenticeship training and education facilities across North America that produce the safest, most highly trained, and most productive, skilled craft workers anywhere in the world. NABTU is dedicated to creating economic security and employment opportunities for its construction workers by safeguarding wage and benefits standards, promoting responsible private capital investments, investing in renowned apprenticeship and training, and creating more construction career pathways to the middle class for women, communities of color, Indigenous people, veterans, and the justice-involved. For more information, please visit nabtu.org.
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Original text here: https://nabtu.org/press_releases/nabtu-statement-on-resolution-copper-mine-land-exchange/
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Linda McMahon's Illegal Transfer of Student Loans to Treasury Will Raise Costs: Weingarten
WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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Linda McMahon's Illegal Transfer of Student Loans to Treasury Will Raise Costs: Weingarten
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WASHINGTON -AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Department of Education announced it was shifting responsibility for its $1.7 trillion loan portfolio to the Treasury Department:
"Americans are already struggling to afford groceries, rent and child care-and this move, alongside the many others Secretary McMahon has made, will probably make
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WASHINGTON, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers issued the following news release:
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Linda McMahon's Illegal Transfer of Student Loans to Treasury Will Raise Costs: Weingarten
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WASHINGTON -AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Department of Education announced it was shifting responsibility for its $1.7 trillion loan portfolio to the Treasury Department:
"Americans are already struggling to afford groceries, rent and child care-and this move, alongside the many others Secretary McMahon has made, will probably makethings worse. The shifting of Education Department programs elsewhere has only increased the bureaucracy and red tape the secretary says she wants to slash. And this one includes an indefensible provision that saddles borrowers with the cost of the reshuffle.
"For over a decade, the AFT has been fighting for greater transparency and major fixes to the broken student loan system to help student loan borrowers. But from day one, the Trump administration has made this harder, not easier, siding with private collection agencies and unleashing wage garnishment and Department of Justice referrals on the most vulnerable.
"I am calling on McMahon to state publicly that not one additional dollar will be billed to student loan borrowers as a result of this move, and that all existing discharge obligations will be honored in full. The AFT will use every tool at our disposal to ensure that happens.
"College should be more affordable. This administration has made it less so."
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Original text here: https://www.aft.org/press-release/linda-mcmahons-illegal-transfer-student-loans-treasury-will-raise-costs-weingarten
Farm Workers Rally Against AEWR Rule Change Before Injunction Hearing
KEENE, California, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The United Farm Workers issued the following news release:
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Farm Workers Rally Against AEWR Rule Change Before Injunction Hearing
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Fresno, CA. -Hundreds of farm workers from California, Georgia, Washington, and Texas rallied at federal court on Wednesday afternoon to support a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration rule that undercuts the jobs and wages of U.S. farm workers and expanding the exploitative H2A agricultural guestworker program.
The United Farm Workers and the UFW Foundation hosted the rally outside the first hearing
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KEENE, California, March 19 [Category: Union] -- The United Farm Workers issued the following news release:
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Farm Workers Rally Against AEWR Rule Change Before Injunction Hearing
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Fresno, CA. -Hundreds of farm workers from California, Georgia, Washington, and Texas rallied at federal court on Wednesday afternoon to support a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration rule that undercuts the jobs and wages of U.S. farm workers and expanding the exploitative H2A agricultural guestworker program.
The United Farm Workers and the UFW Foundation hosted the rally outside the first hearingin their lawsuit against the wage cuts. The plaintiffs specifically requested the court issue an injunction that would block the wage cuts from being implemented while the suit proceeds. Farm workers from all over the country came together to oppose the Department of Labor rule that lowers their wages from $3-7 hourly, depending on the state.
According to the government's own estimate, the wage cuts transfer at least $2.46 billion annually from workers to employers and would represent one of the largest wealth transfers from workers to employers in U.S. agricultural history.
"The Trump Administration made their intentions clear. They are looking to let growers steal over 2 billion dollars from farm workers," said UFW President Teresa Romero. "The Trump wage cut is going to drastically reduce wages of farmworkers across the country and threatens to displace existing American farm workers. Our lawsuit is to say NO to the Trump Wage Cuts. I want to recognize the courage of the individual farm workers who joined this lawsuit to sue the the Trump Administration with us. Instead of cutting workers wages, we should be honoring farm workers with the dignity and respect they deserve. "
"We are committed to defeating the administration's efforts to cut farm worker wages," said UFW Foundation CEO Erica Lomeli Corcoran. " By callously cutting U.S. farm workers' wages and expanding the H-2A temporary guest worker program, the Trump administration is doing the bidding of large corporate agriculture. And they're doing it at the expense of hard-working Americans who will be unable to afford groceries, rent, and other basic needs for survival because of these cuts. We stopped the first Trump administration from doing this in 2020 and we intend to do the same this time."
"It's important for all farm workers to know that this wage cut doesn't just impact workers on H2A visas -it impacts all of us." said plaintiff Isabel Panfilo, a U.S.-born farm worker from Oxnard. "I pick strawberries at a company that also hires H2A workers. Last year, I made over 19 dollars an hour at the company. This year, I went back to the same job. I'm doing the same tasks picking strawberries I did last year. But this year, they are paying us $16.90 per hour, the state minimum wage. I make over 2 dollars less an hour now. This makes it very difficult for me to make ends meet, to help my family, to achieve the American Dream."
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Original text here: https://ufw.org/farm-workers-rally-against-aewr-rule-change-before-injunction-hearing/
