E-Mail the Department of Labor TODAY!
We expect the Bush administration’s Department of Labor to shortly announce new guestworker (H2A) regulations. These regulations, if adopted, will gut existing protections for both domestic and foreign farmworkers and represent a huge step backwards in protecting the hardworking people who put the food on our table.
The regulations will lower farmworker wages, make it easier for local workers to be discriminated against in hiring, and harder for farm workers to obtain decent housing
(click here to see a four-page analysis of the regulations).
Numerous recent media reports document how the Bush Administration is making a last minute push to get these and other horrible regulations our before he leaves office.
CQ Politics, Thursday, Nov 6, 2008: As Bush Lines Up Late Regulations...
The Bush administration is poised to finish a series of controversial, last-minute regulations before leaving office...Bush may complete a host of environmental, health and labor rules with the intent of cementing his legacy....A recent statement from the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called these proposals "ghoulish midnight regulations" that would be "harmful to all Americans."
Please join us in telling the Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Policy, Leon R. Sequeira not to issue these revised regulations. The American people spoke loudly on November 4th and said they had enough with the Bush Administration's anti-worker, anti-immigrant policies. Tell the Department of Labor to allow Congress and the next administration to address these issues.
Send your e-mail today.