Governor Cuomo signed into law the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act on July 17, guaranteeing farmworkers the right to collectively bargain, and receive overtime, disability benefits, paid family leave, one day off a week and unemployment benefits.
For the last 20 years the initiative had been a legislative priority for the New York State AFL-CIO, which encountered stiff resistance from the state’s well-organized agricultural sector. After Democrats won control of the State Senate in 2018, that changed.
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