Labor & Pay Standards

August 18, 2014 - Letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy providing recommended changes to the Agriculture Worker Protection Standard (WPS) to safeguard the men, women and children who produce our food from the harmful effects of pesticides.

June 11, 2014 - Letter to Chairman John Kline of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce highlighting widespread hazards faced by children as young as 12 years old working on U.S. tobacco farms.

April 2, 2014 - Letter to President Ann Weaver Hart of the University of Arizona and President Michael M. Crow of Arizona State University, urging them to use their influence as Board Members of Pac-12 Networks to ensure area standard wages and benefits are paid to Pac-12 workers.

March 31, 2014 - Letter to Labor Secretary Thomas Perez on corporate wage theft and increased DOL oversight of private sector pay standards where workers are losing wages to which they are entitled.

February 6, 2014 - Letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on the need for stronger advisories and better training for agricultural workers exposed to pesticides.

December 4, 2013 - Letter to ASARCO President Manuel Ramos highlighting concerns about the company's recent contract offer to employees that would cut worker wages and benefits but not executive pay.

September 25, 2013 - Letter to President Obama encouraging him to use his executive authority to increase the minimum wage for federal employees and contract employees.