It’s been almost a year since Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced the suspension of Bush era changes to the H-2A agricultural guest worker program. Today, Solis announced today reinstatement of protections including remedying cutbacks in labor protections and restoring the requirement that U.S. workers be hired before foreign laborers are imported, a protection weakened under the Bush regulations.

I think it’s important to offer protection for the guest workers that are here, especially in the absence of a comprehensive immigration reform bill or plan, for that matter. It does not however solve the larger multiple issues involved in guest worker visa programs.

Via / United Farm Workers