Support Colorado's Range Workers!
Help pass legislation in 2010
Existing federal laws allow range workers to be put at risk of unfair conditions and exploitation. Please support our legislation to raise wages and ensure basic protections!
ENDORSE THE CAMPAIGN TODAY
Potential legislation will ensure range workers make the minimum afforded other workers while supporting the state’s agricultural communities. It will:
· Allow range workers to receive wages commensurate to those of other foreign agricultural workers working in Colorado under the H-2A visa program.
· Prohibit employers from keeping a range worker’s personal documents.
· Provide range worker access to bank account information.
· Ensure that no work-related expenses are deducted from the range workers pay, and that all deductions are accounted for with receipts.
· Allow the range worker a means of communication for safety and to contact family members, at no cost to the employer.
· Provide range workers with an informational packet in their native language.
WRITE KEY MEMBERS OF THE COLORADO ASSEMBLY TO SUPPORT PASSING THIS LEGISLATION.
Fill out our endorsement and email it to chandra@coloradoimmigrant.org today!
For a copy of the report, "Overworked and Underpaid: H-2A herders in Colorado," click here.
Check out recent coverage on this issue:
Jan. 27, 2010
Longmont Times Call Editorial
Sheepherders Deserve Better Treatment
http://www.timescall.com/editorial/editorial.asp?ID=20493
Jan. 25, 2010
Colorado Matters: NPR
Sheepherders: Rough Life on the Range
http://www.kcfr.org/cgi-bin/comatters/comatters_play.asx?play=5398&type=comatters.asx
Jan. 14, 2010
New York Times/Associated Press
Immigrant Sheepherders Endure Harsh Work, Low Pay
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/14/us/AP-US-Lonely-Shepherds.html
AP Story also appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, ABC News National, Idaho Statesman
Jan. 13, 2010
Survey stirs debate over treatment of foreign sheepherders
By Dennis Webb, The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2010/01/13/011410_1a_sheepherders.html
Jan. 14, 2010
Denver Post
Poor treatment of immigrant sheep herders alleged
By Burt Hubbard
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14185286#ixzz0cbYT6nAk
Jan. 14, 2010
Herding sheep- quite possibly Colorado's worst job
By Alan Prendergrast
http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2010/01/herding_sheep--quite_possibly.php
Jan. 13, 2010
Studio 12
Episode: Sheepherding Issues in Colorado
Host
Tamara Banks discusses some of the controversial issues within
Colorado's sheepherding industry and how its migrant workers are
treated.
http://video.kbdi.org/video/1385816599/
Earlier Articles:
Jan. 13, 2009
Grand Junction Free Press
Tough Way to Make a Living
By Sharon Sullivan
http://www/gjfreepress.com/article/2009912249992
Feb. 21, 2009
New York Times
In Loneliness, Immigrants Tend the Flock
By Dan Frosch
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/us/22wyoming.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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