The Lame Duck's Latest Lame Attack On Labor As He Heads For The Door

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/10150

By Doug Cunningham

In Bush’s waning days he’s trying to roll back existing rules that protect wages and working conditions of farm workers. The United Farm Workers union is trying to prevent the rollback. By removing key protections in the H-2A visa program, the UFW says Bush would dramatically weaken hard-earned minimum standards on wages and living conditions for migrant farm workers. The changes would let growers bring in unlimited numbers of so-called “guest workers” without proving that resident workers are unavailable. Wage standards for those “guest workers” would be eliminated. The union wants President-Elect Obama to commit to reversing bush’s last minute rules change. The UFW has an online petition opposed to the rollbacks at www.ufwaction.org