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FAIR Fights to Protect the Jobs and Wages of American Workers

RJ Hauman — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 16:52:06 +0000

Last week, FAIR’s government relations team submitted its fifth public comment of the year, urging the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to raise the wages employers are required to pay foreign workers and implement American worker-protection rules that were issued under the Trump administration. The January 2021 rule, which was quickly delayed after President Biden [...]

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Labor Rule Strikes a Blow for U.S. Workers

Bob Dane — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 18:54:22 +0000

The Trump administration’s Department of Labor (DOL) has implemented new prevailing wage rules that both political parties should get behind – but probably won’t. Taking aim at a system that has crassly commodified H-1B visa workers while displacing qualified Americans, DOL determined that its prevailing (mandatory minimum) wage classifications were severely undervalued. Previously, pay scales [...]

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Agriculture Department Moves to Make Foreign Farm Workers Cheaper

Preston Huennekens — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:08:22 +0000

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) published a notice in the Federal Register that they will refuse to collect the wage data necessary to establish wage rates for H-2A agricultural guestworkers. This will have the effect of lowering wages for workers in the H-2A program, an unlimited guest worker program that research shows already certifies foreign [...]

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Wages are Rising for Low-Income Workers

Preston Huennekens — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:00:12 +0000

Both NPR and the New York Times reported that wages are rising for low-income workers. Wages for these earners are rising faster than those in high-earning jobs. Ernie Tedeschi, the author of the Times’ piece, noted that “recent growth for workers with low wages has outpaced that for high-wage workers by the widest margin in [...]

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Meat-Packing Lawsuit Misses the Real Reason Why the Law of the Jungle Rules the Industry

Dan Stein — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:05:06 +0000

A recent lawsuit filed by workers in the food industry charges that key chicken processors in Maryland have been using illegal methods to hold down wages and benefits in food processing. The case names Tyson Foods, Sanderson Farms, JCG Foods, Wayne Farms, Perdue Farms, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, Peco Foods, and WSFP Foods, among others in [...]

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More Foreign Workers Would Hamper Wage Growth

Pawel Styrna — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 22:26:21 +0000

The February 2019 job numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today contain both bad and good news. Many are disappointed that the economy added only 20,000 new jobs last month. However, as Breitbart’s John Carney points out, “February’s number is so low and such a deep departure from the prior months that [...]

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