The Harbor Gateway’s Unfinished Business By Rick Thomas, Columnist A new year is usually a good moment to look at what’s been accomplished in the Harbor...
What the Trump Administration also ruled was that growers can now charge workers for the housing that formerly they had to provide for free. In California, growers are going to be allowed to charge $3 an hour to farmworkers for the housing. Taken together with the cut in wages, that would mean a wage rate for H-2A farmworkers in California of $13.50 an hour.
With photos and an interview with Laura Velasco Dollars and Sense, November/December https://www.dollarsandsense.org/poverty-and-deportees-on-the-streets-in-tijuana/ In the U.S. media, even in progressive media, we pay very little attention to...
In addition, the new regulation allows growers to charge H-2A workers for housing, which they previously had to provide for free. In California, the allowed charge will be $3.00 per hour. The total cut will therefore be from $19.94 to $13.90 - over six dollars.
About the time I closed that life chapter, my mother had a stroke, which started a chain of events that led to her death two years later and, once again, I was the only close relative to shoulder the burdens that accompanied the end of her life.