The Department of Labor’s new rule that mandates agricultural employers to allow temporary foreign migrant workers to form a union and engage in collective bargaining is facing a lawsuit from Georgia’s Attorney General Christopher Carr.
Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), specific employees have the right to form unions and participate in collective bargaining.
For almost 90 years, agricultural workers were excluded from the NLRA by Congress.
In Carr’s lawsuit, it is argued that the rule has created an unequal situation where numerous temporary foreign migrant workers are granted rights that are not extended to millions of American farm workers.
Miles Berry Farm, together with the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, and the attorneys general of Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, are joining Carr in this lawsuit.
