Farm workers

Where do guns go after being "bought back?," twins brothers on decades of performing together for children, and the on-going abuse of migrant laborers.

The federally mandated Adverse Effect Wage Rate jumped 12.8% in 2023. In Michigan, that's $17.24 an hour.

Some of Michigan’s undocumented migrant farmworkers are travelling to the U.S. Capitol this week to advocate for a path to citizenship. That’s after a Senate official blocked immigration reforms in a budget bill.

A legal challenge to COVID-19 testing requirements on Michigan farms has been dismissed in the federal court system. Two Michigan farms — True Blue Berry…

A federal appeals court in Ohio has denied a request from some Michigan farms to suspend testing requirements for Michigan workers while it makes a…

Advocates for migrant workers voiced their support on Thursday for a state order that requires farm operators to test their employees for COVID-19. The…

The Michigan Farm Bureau has some concerns about a state emergency order that agricultural and food processing workers get tested for COVID-19.The…

Lisa Hauch grew up on her parent’s farm in Southwest Michigan. Now, she runs it, along with her brother and her husband. At Russell Costanza Farms, they…

The Michigan Civil Rights Commission says the state is wrong to eliminate minimum wage protection for workers on some small farms. According to the…