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Farmworkers to Install Solar Photovoltaic Systems Tomorrow
AFOP Member HELP-New Mexico Provides Essential Job Training Services through the NFJP January 27, 2012–HELP-New Mexico, Inc., a statewide community-based organization headquartered in Albuquerque, has prepared 11 farmworkers to obtain a certification that will provide them with the skills, knowledge, and ability to work together with journeyman electricians to design and install solar panel systems. [...]
AFOP Issues Comments on Proposed Update of Child Labor Rules
RE: RIN 1235–AA06 Child Labor Regulations, Orders and Statements of Interpretation; Child Labor Violations – Civil Money Penalties; Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Request for Comments The following comments represent the views of the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs regarding the Department of Labor’s (DOL) published Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (RIN 1235-AA06) to update the [...]
Agribusiness Successfully Lobbies to Delay Child Labor Updates
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs Opposes Holdup in Protecting Farmworker Children October 28, 2011—Yesterday, the Department of Labor sent notice that it would be extending the comment period and further delaying its proposal to update child labor regulations. The postponement will be announced in the Federal Register on Monday. The DOL released the proposal in [...]
Leaving America’s Workforce Behind
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs Responds to Dangerous Cuts to Job Training Programs Proposed by the House Appropriations Committee Washington, D.C. — Today, the House Appropriations Committee released the draft fiscal year 2012 Labor, Health, and Human Services (LHHS) funding bill. The cuts proposed in this bill would cut funding for the Department of Labor’s [...]
AFOP Supports Strengthening DOL’s Hazardous Orders in Agriculture
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs Commends Step Forward in Protecting Children September 2, 2011 – Washington, D.C.— In the midst of National Labor Rights Week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing revisions to child labor regulations that would strengthen the safety requirements for young workers employed in agriculture and related fields. The Association [...]
Secretary Solis Attends HELP-New Mexico’s Proyecto Sol Heat Stress Training
HELP-New Mexico hosted a press conference in conjunction with a 40-minute presentation of a Proyecto Sol heat stress training to farmworkers Albuquerque, New Mexico—Yesterday, HELP-New Mexico, a member organization of the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP), hosted a press conference in conjunction with a 40-minute presentation of a Proyecto Sol heat stress training to [...]
Death of Two 14-Year-Old Girls in an Illinois Field Underscores the Need for an Overhaul of U.S. Child Labor Laws—Groups Condemn New Laws that Weaken Protections for Young Workers in States A Joint Press Release of the Child Labor Coalition and the Global March Against Child Labor: Washington, D.C.—The tragic death of two 14-year-old girls [...]
AFOP Screens New Film by Executive Producer Eva Longoria on Child Labor in the U.S.
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs Presents a Screening and Panel Discussion of “The Harvest/ La Cosecha,” Hosted by the National Council of La Raza Washington, D.C.—The start of the summer marks the beginning of the harvest season in America’s fields. On July 7, at 9 a.m., the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) will present [...]
Local Youth Council Educates Legislators on Child Labor
Children in the Fields Campaign Youth Council Will Travel to the Capitol to Discuss the Plight of Farmworker Children and Witness a House Resolution McAllen, Texas—The Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) announced today that its Children in the Fields Campaign Youth Council in Mission, Texas has been invited by State Representative Sergio Muñoz, Jr. [...]
Unemployment Rate Falls, But Growth Is Mired By Decline in Public Sector
Washington, D.C.— Today the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics released its employment figures showing the unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March. The Bureau cited the addition of 216,000 in the private sector as the catalyst responsible for this positive change amidst the deepest and longest economic [...]
