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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
The Canadian Labor Minister late Thursday afternoon intervened in a contract dispute between the nation's two major railways and a Teamsters union, directing a branch of the Canadian government to impose final binding arbitration on the two parties.
The Labor Department has recovered over $540,000 in wages for 268 H-2A workers in North Carolina after uncovering violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and the H-2A program.
Agri-Pulse editors examine agriculture and food companies' hiring and retention struggles in a new five-part series, “The Great Farm and Food Talent Search.”
A Labor Department investigation has found at least two teenagers — one 16 years old and the other 17 — operating meat-processing equipment in violation of federal child labor orders at Monogram Meat Snacks LLC in Chandler, Minnesota.
A sanitation company tasked with cleaning meatpacking plants for Cargill, JBS, Tyson Foods and five other companies has agreed to pay $1.5 million in penalties for employing at least 102 children in hazardous jobs, the Labor Department says.
A federal judge has sentenced two farm labor contractors to time in prison and another to eight months of home detention for their roles in a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized more than a dozen Mexican H-2A workers.
The nation’s largest railroads, aided by low summer demand and intense recruiting initiatives, have made progress in shrinking the formidable freight backlogs that congested their lines this spring. But 62,000 engineers and conductors could once again throw the rail system into disarray if they go on strike Friday.
A contract dispute between the nation's largest railroads and 115,000 of their workers is nearing escalation to a strike that could idle more than 7,000 trains, potentially halting the movement of grain during the harvest season.
The four largest U.S. railroads are optimistic about their plans to recruit more workers headed into the fall harvest, but Surface Transportation Board Chairman Martin Oberman has expressed concern about how ready the railroads are.
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