Agricultural workers overtime

Farmworkers, farmers and advocates gathered at two events – all working to get lawmakers’ attention about the agriculture overtime law. An annual tribunal defended farmworkers’ rights and the overtime law. A separate rally focused on the negative impacts of it.

Farmworkers have met in central Washington to talk about a new overtime law and how it’s impacting their incomes. Farmers say… it’s not sustainable for them. Nonprofits organized rallies in Quincy and Sunnyside.

Proposal bill 5476, designed to authorize an agricultural flexibility overtime period in Washington, has not advance in Legislature.

Trabajadores agrícolas, defensores y agricultores testificaron en la Legislatura de Washington sobre la propuesta de ley 5476 que busca modificar los topes de la ley de horas extra agrícolas.