173 Organizations Endorse Legislation (CARE Act) to Close Child Labor Loopholes that Endanger the Health, Safety and Educational Development of Farmworker Children
The Child Labor Coalition is reaching out for organizational endorsements of the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety, H.R. 3394, which would end exploitative child labor in U.S. agriculture. [This is the bill number in the 116th Congress. We expect the bill to be reintroduced soon in the 117th Congress.]
173 great groups have endorsed this much-needed legislation.
We ask organizations to help us advance this vital legislation which would remove the exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act that allow children to work unlimited hours in agriculture at the age of 12; these exemptions also allow child farmworkers to perform hazardous work at the age of 16. A text of the bill can be found here.
The educational impact of child labor on U.S. farmworker children has been devastating. We estimate that two out of three children who work in the fields drop out of school.
Rep. Roybal-Allard’s press release explains why there is an urgent need to protect farmworker children and how the bill accomplishes this.
Organizations that wish to add their names to the list of endorsers, please email reidm@nclnet.org .
The following 173 organizations have endorsed the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety:
| · Action for Children North Carolina |
| · AFL-CIO |
| · Alianza Nacional de Campesinas |
| · Alliance for Justice |
| · American Academy of Pediatrics |
| · American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) |
| · American Federation of Teachers |
| · American Medical Women’s Association |
| · Amnesty International USA |
| · Asian Americans Advancing Justice — AAJC |
| · Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance |
| · Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs |
| · Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers (AWPPW) |
| · Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, & Grain Millers International Union |
| · Bank Information Center |
| · Beyond Borders |
| · Beyond Pesticides |
| · Bon Appétit Management Company |
| · California Human Development |
| · California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation |
| · Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities |
| · CATA – Farmworkers’ Support Committee (NJ, PA, MD) |
| · Center for Human Rights of Children, Loyola University |
| · Center for Progressive Reform |
| · Centro de los Derechos del Migrante |
| · Child Labor Coalition |
| · Child Welfare League of America |
| · Children’s Alliance (Washington State) |
| · CLASP |
| · Coalition Against Slavery and Trafficking–CAST |
| · Coalition of Immokalee Workers |
| · Coalition on Human Needs |
| · Communications Workers of America |
| · Community Farm Alliance |
| · Corporate Accountability Lab |
| · CREA: Center for Reflection, Education and Action |
| · Delaware Ecumenical Council on Children and Families |
| · Dialogue on Diversity |
| · Earth Ethics |
| · Earth Justice |
| · East Coast Migrant Head Start Project |
| · Episcopal Farmworker Ministry (North Carolina) |
| · Fairtrade America |
| · Fair World Project |
| · Families USA |
| · Farm Labor Organizing Committee |
| · Farmworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project (Illinois) |
| · Farmworker Association of Florida |
| · Farmworker Justice |
| · Feminist Majority Foundation |
| · First Focus Campaign for Children |
| · Food and Water Action |
| · Food Chain Workers Alliance |
| · Food Empowerment Project |
| · Food Policy Action Education Fund |
| · Food Tank |
| · Friends of the Earth |
| · Futures Without Violence |
| · General Federation of Women’s Clubs |
| · Girls Inc. |
