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The largest agricultural fair in Western Pennsylvania is back for its 169th year and is expected to welcome more than 100,000 ...
More than 80 per cent of horticulture businesses in some of Victoria's biggest growing regions were in breach of laws to ...
Opinion: Entertainment visas would further erode fair work for fair workers Bills moving through Congress would rob migrants working in fairs and carnivals of the H-2B visa’s few protections.
Twenty fired from State Fair, workers say. Published: May. 01, 2010, 2:30 a.m. By . Charles McChesney, The Post-Standard; David Lassman / The Post-Standard Features from the 2009 New York State Fair.
Hiring workers. Blue Barn, the popular State Fair food vendor known for concocting new Fair foods each year (this year it’s buffalo chicken “doughscuits” — or “doughnut-style biscuits ...
Meemken found that Fair Trade-certified cooperatives paid higher wages to their member farmers, compared with the non-Fair Trade cooperatives. Those benefits did not, however, extend to hired workers.
And while Fair Trade USA is ensuring that factory, farm and fishery workers are treated ethically, Nest is setting standards for the millions of artisans across the globe who work out of their homes.
Almost all of New York’s workers begin to get overtime pay after working 40 hours a week. Yet under state law, farmworkers only get it after working 60 hours a week. Our work is tiring, and w… ...