EU Parliament elections in June 2024 were marked by the rising strength of rightist anti-migrant parties, and national elections in France and the UK in July 2024 showed that voters want to punish ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris in August 2024 blamed “corporate price gouging” by meatpackers and food manufacturers for high grocery prices. Most economists disagreed, pointing to ...

Florida’s SB 1718 in 2023 imposed state sanctions on employers who hire unauthorized workers. In April 2024, Florida enacted HB 433 to block local governments such as Miami-Dade from requiring ...

USDA reported that farmers spent $48 billion on labor in 2023, making hired labor 10 percent of total farm production expenses. Crop farms accounted for three-quarters of the labor expenses. The ...

There were three major farm labor issues in California and the US in summer 2024: H-2As, FLCs, and the unintended effects of new laws and regulations. The H-2A program quadrupled in size over the past ...

UN leaders met in New York City to discuss global issues amidst record temperatures and wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. Since the Paris agreement of 2015 to restrict carbon emissions, China has ...

The Agricultural Labor Relations Board certified the UFW as the bargaining representative of employees at Wonderful’s Wasco nursery, the largest US largest grapevine nursery, after the UFW submitted ...

Canada plans to admit 1.5 million immigrants between 2023 and 2025, with two-thirds getting visas under a point system that gives priority to youth, education, and having a Canadian job offer and work ...

President Joe Biden and ex-President Donald Trump sparred over immigration in June 2024. Biden said he was managing migration and respecting American values, while Trump decried the border chaos that ...

US meatpacking (NAICS 31161 animal slaughtering and processing) includes 2,564 establishments that employed an average 545,000 workers in 2023 who earned an average $1,020 a week or $53,000 a year if ...

California had sufficient water in 2023-24. California had annual precipitation of 34 inches in 2022-23, leaving statewide reservoirs with ...

The H-2A program allows US farm employers who anticipate shortages of seasonal workers to be certified by DOL to recruit and employ H-2A workers to fill seasonal farm jobs for up to 10 months.