187 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.]
187 great national, regional, and state-based 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 187 groups below have endorsed the Children’s Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety between 2019 and 2021:
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
Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, & Grain Millers International Union, Local 351 (NM)
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 Childhood & Youth Studies, Salem State University (MA)
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 to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking̶̶—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.… Read the rest
