Rep. Raúl Grijalva reintroduces bill ensuring overtime pay for excluded farmworkers.
@UFWPresident: “It is hard to believe the overtime exclusion still persists 83 years later for the men and women that feed America." ufw.org/overtimeintrod…
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@UFWPresident: “It is hard to believe the overtime exclusion still persists 83 years later for the men and women that feed America." ufw.org/overtimeintrod…
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UFW: "Agricultural workers were written out of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, which granted overtime to nearly all other American workers, when Southern segregationist lawmakers did not hide their bigoted motivation ..."
"... arguing white and African American workers could not be paid the same and that extending farm workers overtime pay would lead to the end of racial discrimination."
UFW Foundation executive director: “Farm workers risk their lives through the pandemic, wildfires, and other extreme conditions, yet they are still fighting for their right to be treated equally. Farm workers are always essential and we must treat them as such ..."
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