Como cada año, la temporada de cosecha del chile significa una importante derrama económica para la región sur de Nuevo México. Sin embargo, para los trabajadores del campo la situación ha cambiado poco. To read the entire article, click here.
Following an investigation I conducted for In These Times last year that exposed wage theft in New Mexico’s chile fields, it looked as though New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions (DWS) was taking action to ensure that chileros (chile pickers) and other farmworkers in the state were finally going to get the pay they’re legally…
Twenty-three Texans claim in court that Pioneer Hi-Bred International paid them less than minimum wage for detasseling corn in Indiana under threat that “taking a bathroom break or stopping to drink water would affect their end-of-season bonus.” To read the entire article, click here.
Contact: Cynthia Martinez, Communications Director * 512-374-2764 * cmartinez@trla.org WESLACO, Texas – April 24, 2014 – The Texas Bar Foundation has awarded a grant of $9,220 to Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) in support of a new educational program aimed at empowering and educating migrant farmworkers on their legal rights.
Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (TRLA) está impulsando una campaña para entrenar a trabajadores agrícolas voluntarios y sean promotores de sus derechos en las áreas de reclutamiento, contratos, incumplimiento de contrato, salarios, vivienda, seguridad ocupacional, estrés de calor, higiene en la labor, transportación y discriminación. To read the entire article, click here.
A group of farm workers in south Texas filed suit in federal court alleging they were forced to live in housing that was “unfit for human habitation.” The federal lawsuit, filed in late January, says workers at Van Horn chile farm slept in bug-infested shipping containers and trailers, and some were provided nothing more than…
Human trafficking is a problem, experts say, but how to combat it remains a problem unto itself. “The crime is hidden,” said Noël Busch-Armendariz, director of the University of Texas at Austin’s Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. “Our best knowledge about human trafficking in Texas tells us that human trafficking happens in Rio…
