Ag industry wants farmworkers prioritized for vaccinations in Washington By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press
Published: January 15, 2021, 3:01pm
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2 Photos FILE - In this June 16, 2020, file photo, workers at an orchard put on equipment as they prepare to thin apple trees in Yakima, Wash. The agriculture industry is asking Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee to move migrant farmworkers and food factory workers closer to the front of the line for the coronavirus vaccine because they perform work that cannot be delayed or performed remotely. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) Photo Gallery
SPOKANE The agriculture industry is asking Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to move migrant farmworkers and food factory workers closer to the front of the line for the coronavirus vaccine because they perform work that cannot be delayed or performed remotely.
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A federal judge in California has issued an injunction stopping a minimum wage freeze for H-2A-visa agricultural foreign guestworkers and ordering the U.S. Department of Labor to use previously established methodology to set minimum wages for 2021.
U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd, a 2015 Obama appointee in the courtâs eastern district in Fresno, granted the injunction Dec. 23 saying it is likely the plaintiff, the United Farm Workers union, will prevail on its assertion that DOL violated procedures in implementing the freeze for nonrange workers.
That means all guestworkers except those who work as shepherds.
About 242,000 of 275,000 H-2A jobs certified for 2020 were on farms that grow crops, including fruits and vegetables.
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