Tag: labor

The following is an open letter from Joe Erlinger, President of McDonald's USA

As summers appear to get relentlessly hotter, some states are proposing new laws to mandate worker safety in extreme conditions.

Customers can also weigh produce themselves and simply scan a barcode on the scale screen.

Admittedly, the produce industry faces heavy pressure from other factors, including climate change, urbanization, and water shortages. However it deals with these issues, the solution won’t be complete without solving the labor dilemma.

Yet again, agricultural leaders are calling upon Congress to adopt some version of the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which passed twice in the House of Representatives with bipartisan support, but which the Senate has so far failed to act on.

Natural Grocers, the leading family-operated organic and natural grocery retailer in the U.S., announces a nationwide hiring push for almost 500 positions.

The Dallas clinic has been such a great success, that Hardie’s recently launched a mobile clinic for its Austin employees, and has plans for a third clinic in Houston later this year to serve all 700 of its employees.

In order to comply with trade agreements with the U.S. and Canada, Mexico will prohibit subcontracting of day laborers in the avocado and berry industries, Reuters reported.

Next month the United States will grant temporary work visas to an additional 300,000 foreign workers, announced Mexican Interior Minister Adán Augusto López Hernández on June 22.