Justice
for Farmworkers Update
In New
York, farmworkers are excluded from the several basic human rights: A DAY OF
REST —OVERTIME PAY —DISABILITY INSURANCE —COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
PROTECTIONS.
Click here for the an Action Alert if you have time to make a simple call during the week of June 16-20, 2008. To review a Justice for Farmworkers Memorandum in Support for A.11425 click here.
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End the exclusions! Farmworkers and domestic workers rallied together in Albany's West Capitol Park on May 20, 2008 for equal protections under NYS labor laws. Many carried signs created by participants at the "Full Circle for Economic Justice" conference on May 18-19. They were joined by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, NYS AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes, Assembly Labor Committee Chair Susan John and NYS Senator John Flannigan, sponsor of S3884, the Farmworkers Fair Labor Practices Act. Click here to read the May 25 editorial from the New York Daily News. |
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Click here to read the Letter to the Editor, "Farm Bureau wants a vulnerable work force" in the Albany Times Union on June 17, 2008.
The web site of Rural and Migrant Ministry (accompaniment program section) features information about the Justice For Farmworkers Coalition, which includes the Labor-Religion Coalition of New York State.
The federal
case of farmworker slavery in western New York is
ample
proof that farmworkers are vulnerable. The New York State Senate and the Governor
have consistently refused farmworkers their dignity and their equality. They refuse
to pass legislation that removes all of the
legislative exclusions that deny
farmworkers equality.
For information about the Farmworkers
Fair Labor Practices Act, click here.
