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Union leaders say the USDA reorganization is illegal and could gut the agency's ability to help farmers and run nutrition programs.

A recent survey reveals a surprising trend among USDA employees facing relocation—most would rather pack their bags for new jobs than move across the country.

A federal judge blocked the U.S. Labor Department from enforcing a rule in 17 states that would prevent agricultural employers from retaliating against migrant workers with H-2A visas for joining labor unions.  Employers also couldn’t retaliate for workers organizing against wage theft, trafficking, and other abuses.   Courth...

Employees within The Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service voted to unionize Thursday afternoon.  The vote, 138-4, is part of the employees' efforts to slow down or stop a plan to move the agency out of the Washington, D.C. a...

About 180 farmworkers staged a walkout from Sakuma Brothers Berry Farm Thursday to protest wages and working conditions.  The main demand of the union Familias Unidas por la Justicia (Families United for Justice), an 11-cent increase for each pound of strawberries workers pick.  Th...