NC FW conditions


NC Farmworker Conditions

Guest worker program:
November 15, 2007
Are we treating them like guests?
ABC11 News in Raleigh-Durham investigates the H2A guestworker program in NC. Critics say we invite workers here, mistreat them, and don’t let them come back if they complain.

WRAL Documentary on Farmworker Housing in NC
August 2005
Powerful series showing farm worker housing conditions in NC.

Half of Latino farm workers in North Carolina are unable to feed their families – Raleigh News & Observer, May 13, 2003

Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center base findings on survery of 102 families in a five-county area in central North Carolina.

“Harvesting for Mt. Olive: A National Farm Worker Ministry Delegation Report”
June 1999

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Too Hot to Work webinar – heat stress and farmworker protections – hosted by National Farm Worker Ministry

Webinar – Too Hot to Work: Farm Workers and the Fight for Heat Protections

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Farm workers picking strawberries on cold sunny morning

Webinar: The Ongoing Fight for Farm Worker Justice in New York

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Honoring May Day

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