107 Groups Endorse the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment (CARE), which would extend child labor protections to many children working in U.S. agriculture.

The Children’s Act for

Responsible Employment

[CARE has been reintroduced as H.R. 2234 in the current session of Congress]

The CARE Act  has been endorsed by the following 107 organizations:

• Action for Children North Carolina;
• AFL-CIO;
• Alliance for Justice;
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee;
• American Association of University Women;
• American Federation of Teachers;
• American Rights at Work;
• America’s Promise Alliance;
• Amnesty International USA;
• Asian American Justice Center;
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance;
• Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs;
• Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers  International Union;
• Bon Appétit Management Company;
• California Human Development;
• California Institute for Rural Studies;
• California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation;
• Calvert Group Ltd.;
• Center for Community Change;
• Change to Win;
• Child Labor Coalition;
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers;
• Coalition of Labor Union Women;
• Children’s Alliance, Washington State;
• Communications Workers of America;
• Covenant with North Carolina’s Children;
• Dialogue on Diversity;
• East Coast Migrant Head Start Project;
• El Centro Latino of Western North Carolina;
• Farmworker Advocacy Network [North Carolina];
• Farm Labor Organizing Committee;
• Farmworker Association of Florida;
• Farmworker Justice;
• First Focus Campaign for Children;
• Food Chain Workers Alliance;
• Galen Films;
• Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network;
• General Federation of Women’s Clubs;
• Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities;
• Hispanic Federation;
• Honest Tea;
• Human Rights Watch;
• Interfaith Worker Justice;
• International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers;
• International Brotherhood of the Teamsters;
• International Initiative to End Child Labor;
• International Labor Rights Forum;
• Kentucky Youth Advocates;
• Labor Council for Latin American Advancement;
• Laborers’ International Union of North America;
• La Fe Policy Research & Education Center of San Antonio;
• Laredo, Texas (City Council)
• Latino Advocacy Council of Western North Carolina;
• Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
• League of United Latin American Citizens;
• Legal Momentum (formally the Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund);
• MAFO (The National Partnership of Rural and Farmworker Organizations);
• Maine Children’s Alliance;
• MALDEF—Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund;
• MANA, A National Latina Organization;
• Media Voices for Children;
• Migrant Clinician’s Network;
• Migrant Legal Action Program;
• MomsRising;
• NAACP;
• National Consumers League;
• National Education Association;
• National Employment Law Project;
• National Farmworker Alliance;
• National Farm Worker Ministry;
• National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth;
• National Association of Consumer Advocates;
• National Association of State Directors of Migrant Education;
• National Collaboration for Youth;
• National Foster Care Coalition;
• National Hispanic Medical Association;
• National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association;
• National Organization for Women;
• National Parent Teacher Association (PTA);
• NCLR (National Council of La Raza);
• North Carolina Council of Churches;
• North Carolina Justice Center;
• Oregon Human Development Corporation;
• Oxfam America;
• PathStone;
• PCUN—Pineros y Campesinos  del Noroeste (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers)
• Pesticide Action Network North America;
• Pesticide Education Center;
• Pesticide Watch;
• Pride at Work;
• Public Education Network;
• Ramsay Merriam Fund;
• Results;
• Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights;
• Social Advocates for Youth;
• Southern Poverty Law Center;
• Student Action with Farmworkers;
• Swanton Berry Farms;
• Teaching and Mentoring Communities [Formerly Texas Migrant Council];
• United Methodist Church – General Board of Church and Society;
• United States Hispanic Leadership Institute;
• United States Student Association;
• United Farm Workers of America;
• United Food & Commercial Workers International Union;
• United Methodist Women;
• Vecinos Farmworker Health Program; and
• Voices for Ohio’s Children.