wage theft

How Farmworker Wage Theft Bankrupts our Rural Communities

May 3, 2013
Brian DeVore
agriculture, Food and Sustainable Agriculture, Loon Commons blog
Centro Campesino, fair labor practices, farmworkers, immigrant laborers, labor rights, Land Stewardship Project, Latino Economic Development Center, migrant laborers, Minnesota Fair Labor Standards Act, wage theft, worker rights

A few years ago LSP organizer Doug Nopar was told of a southeast Minnesota farm operation that was withholding wages from a worker after he had accidentally damaged a door with a…