sarbanand farms

Last week, a Seattle U.S. District Court judge certified a class-action lawsuit on behalf of some 600 Mexican workers who have alleged labor abuses at a Whatcom County blueberry farm.  The lawsuit alleges the company violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which forbids  forced labor, through threats and implied threats that the workers would be sent to Mexico if they complained or did no

Farm labor advocates groups are furious after a District Court judge in Bellingham trimmed a fine to $35,000 Tuesday for a blueberry farm accused of unsafe working conditions, after a worker died in August.  The State Department of Labor and Industry previously found Sarbanand Farms not liable for the death of Honesto Silva Ibarra, 28,  but it found the company failed to offer enough rest breaks a

About two dozen temporary farmworkers who claim they were mistreated by a north Washington farm are getting ready to leave for Mexico. The Seattle Times reports (http://bit.ly/2w7NJBZ ) the 25 workers were brought with a group of about 600 to pick blueberries at Sarbanand Farms in Sumas as part of the H-2A visa program...