Yakima Valley growers cleared in farm labor case (laborers brought in from Thailand)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

YAKIMA, Wash. -- A federal judge has cleared two Yakima Valley growers of liability in a racial discrimination case filed by local Latino workers who claimed they were displaced by laborers brought in from Thailand.

However, U.S. District Judge Robert Whaley upheld a jury's verdict from September that found the labor contractor who brought in the workers did discriminate against them.

The farm workers contend that Global Horizons Inc. violated the Farm Labor Contractors Act by failing to provide jobs promised to local workers. They also said the company discriminated against local workers based on race by failing to hire them or by firing them and replacing them with workers brought from Thailand under the federal H-2A guest-worker program in 2004.

The program allows growers to import foreign farm workers based on a showing that the local labor force was inadequate.


Read more: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_wa_farm_labor_lawsuit.html

[proud2bamerican2]

1. Farm labor work force 2.0

Oh this is too much. Let me guess, the Growers were just bringing in Thais to "do the jobs Mexicans won't do"?

[shanti]

2. unreal

this story truly has me at a loss for words :wow:

[Stargazer99]

3. It just shows the ugly truth about conservative capitalism