As farmworkers form first unions in NY, rights of H-2A workers questioned
요약
보고된 날짜: 2023년 8월 17일
위치: 미국
기업 페이지
Porpiglia Farms - Employer영향받은
영향받은 사람의 수: 숫자를 알 수 없음
Migrant & immigrant workers: ( 숫자를 알 수 없음 - 자메이카 , 농업 및 가축 , Men , Documented migrants )토픽들
결사의 자유 , 집회의 자유 , 노동 조합에 대한 권리 , 과도한 생산 목표 , 불안정한/불적합한 생활환경 , 사생활권 , 위협결과
응답 요청 여부: 예, News outlet에 의해 요청됨
응답을 볼 수 있는 외부 링크: (더 알아보기)
시행된 조치: Porpiglia owners issued a statement denying the allegations of punishment with substandard housing.
출처: News outlet
…For the last decade, a Jamaican farmworker has harvested apples at Porpiglia Farms. He shares his living quarters with eight others. They wash their laundry by hand. And if they perform poorly, they may be sent to live in a cramped garage.
Recently, the laborer, 42, who comes to work on an H-2A temporary visa, was among 500 farmworkers who have voted to join the United Farm Workers union…
The New York Farm Bureau and owners at the farms where the unions have formed are challenging whether temporary workers can organize or bargain collectively. The issue has become ripe following 2019 changes to the state’s farm labor laws, ushered in by the Democrat-controlled state Legislature…
Poor working conditions, particularly for those who are contracted to work under temporary visas, have led to the efforts to organize, the laborers said…
The New York Farm Bureau declined to make available the farms that are involved in the case. The president of Porpiglia Farms did not return a request for comment. Operators of other farms in the greater Capital Region and Hudson Valley, which employ hundreds of temporary migrant workers, declined to comment for this story…