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Guest Worker Program
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ImmigrationProf Blog
U.S. Labor Dept. reinstates decades-old farm worker protections rules UFW applauds return to bi-partisan farm worker regulations
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis announced today reinstatement of protections for imported farm workers that were slashed from the nation’s agricultural guest worker program during the…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Problem with “Guest” Worker Programs 101: Suit Points to Guest Worker Program Flaws
Julia Preston for the N.Y. Times writes of the exploitation of noncitizen workers in existing "guest" worker programs and reminds of the pssoble abuses in future guest worker programs.KJ
ImmigrationProf Blog
National Law Journal Online Advocates for ‘braceros’ wore opposition down
The National Law Journal reports that a class action by Mexican laborers who legally came to the United States from WWII to the 1960s through a "guest worker" programs, "required some…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Front Line Police urge Congress to Enact Comprehensive Reform
From America's Voice:National Gathering of Law Enforcement Leaders Call for Urgent Federal ActionWashington, DC – Over one hundred leading law enforcement officials gathered in Phoenix this week to discuss how…
ImmigrationProf Blog
McCain Demanding a Guest Worker Program
Jeff Zeleny and Ginger Thompson write in the NY Times:President Obama told a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday that Congress should begin debating a comprehensive immigration plan by year’s…
ImmigrationProf Blog
BRACERO STORIES
Many comprehensive immigration reform proposals include provisions for a guest worker program. The United States unfortunately has not had the best experiences with ensuring that guest workers' wage and condition…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently Published Scholarship
ArticlesWilliam B. Gould IV (left), The Employee Free Choice Act of 2009, Labor Law Reform, and What Can Be Done About the Broken System of Labor-Management Relations Law in…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Midnight Changes to H-2A Guestworker Program
New Farmworker Rules Will Deteriorate Conditions Even FurtherFrom the Immigration Policy Center:Midnight Changes to H-2A Guestworker Program Hurt All WorkersWashington D.C.-The Bush Administration has finalized and is about to publish…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Problems With Guest Worker Programs: The Pineros Case
For analysis of recent court decisions protecting the rights of guest workers (specifically pineros -- men of the pines), click here. For a copy of one of the decisions, see…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: David Griffith, American guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the U.S. labor market
The book has been out for a while but, because a possible guestworker program remains on the table, it remains relevant. David Griffith, American guestworkers: Jamaicans and Mexicans in the…