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How Farmworkers Are Organizing to Close the Wage Gap

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Agricultural workers in New York just formed the state’s first farmworker union, but a new law guaranteeing overtime protections and organizing rights for the first time has been delayed.

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First Farmworker Union Forms in New York State

Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio Counter
Farmworkers fought for years to have the legal power to unionize in New York State. Finally, in 2019, the state passed the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act, which gave agricultural and farm workers the right to collectively bargain.
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