farm labor

A family-owned apple and cherry orchard business has just agreed to pay about a half-million dollars in back wages to hundreds of workers.

Just as the sun rises over the Yakima Valley on May 14, more than 100 workers drive their vehicles off Monson Fruit property in Selah, north of Yakima.…

We roll up a long, gravel road about 20 miles outside Mattawa, a small farming town in central Washington state.We’re on the King Fuji Ranch where there's…

Health officials in Grant County, Washington are responding to four probable cases of mumps.One case has been lab confirmed so far, while the others are…

Most farmers in rural eastern Washington state say they only hire legal workers. But there’s a polite fiction of living and working there. Federal…

A breakdown in a U.S. State Department computer system that processes foreign worker visas has sowed major worries at some Northwest orchards.Those…

Northwest farmers hired significantly more foreign guest workers this season under a special immigration program.Farms in Washington state accounted for…

PASCO, Wash. – Northwest farmers are beginning to harvest the first asparagus of the year this week in southeast Washington. That’s a tad earlier than…

RICHLAND, Wash. – A group of Northwest farmers plans to bring in thousands of legal Mexican guest workers to their fields and orchards this year. Last…