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Article: GUEST WORKERS NEED BETTER LABOR PROTECTIONS, WITNESSES TELL EDUCATION AND LABOR COMMITTEE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 7, 2007
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The House Education & Labor Committee issued the following news release:
If existing guest worker programs are to be expanded, Congress must first strengthen labor protections for guest workers to prevent those workers from being exploited and abused, and the administration must vigorously enforce the law, witnesses told the House Education and Labor Committee during a hearing today.
Baldemar Velasquez, founder and president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, told the committee that a discussion about the substandard conditions that guest workers face has been absent from the current debate over reforming the nation's immigration laws.
"There has been little attention paid to the ...